Alu Design uses moulded aluminium, touch screens, high-sensitivity joysticks, integrated electronics and ergonomic thinking to make all sorts of high-spec chairs for work at sea.

Since 2008, the company has delivered about 2,500 of these specialist chairs to commercial shipping vessels, drilling rigs, offshore support vessels, subsea vessels, tugs, aquaculture craft and “really for anything that floats”, according to marketing director Frank Robertsen.

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