Ulmatec Thermal Solutions and LD Armateurs teams up again!

Bernt-Aage Ulstein
December 3, 2025

Ulmatec Thermal Solutions (Ulmatec Pyro AS) has been awarded a contract for its Integrated Central Heating System (Ulmatec ICHSTM) by Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (ZPMC) in China for 2 new SOV’s under construction for LD Armateurs (LDA).

Salt Ship Design AS has developed the designs which leverage the operational experiences from the previous purpose-built SOV’s, “Wind of Hope” and “Wind of Change”, also featuring Ulmatec ICHSTM. The enhanced designs focus on maximizing operational efficiency, uptime, and optimizing energy consumption.

Ulmatec ICHSTM is a fully automatic and self-regulating central heating system for heat recovery and heat distribution. With continuous heat recovery from the engines’ cooling water, the system will ensure that the fuel consumption from the vessel’s boiler is minimized. The distribution function ensures waste heat utilization is efficient and optimized at any time. Heat consuming system on board includes sanitary hot water system, HVAC-systems, tank heating and engine pre-heating systems.

The system will feature Ulmatec’s new automation platform with a state-of-the-art user experience and improved functionality for logging and analyzing heat consumption and actual efficiency gains.

We congratulate LDA with their new state-of-the-art and forward-looking vessel designs in terms of energy efficiency and are grateful for the trust granted to Ulmatec Thermal Solutions by ZPMC.

Bernt-Aage Ulstein
December 4, 2025

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