"According to Lloyd’s Register-Fairplay 2,193 new merchant ships totalling 82.5 m dwt left the world’s shipyards in 2007. In 2007 alone, Lloyds’ Register-Fairplay recorded a further 5,044 orders for new merchant ships - in total there are more than 8,000 confirmed new-build ships in the order books of the world’s shipbuilders up to 2015."

"The IMO dramatically reduced the previous limit values for sulphur oxide and nitrogen oxide in fuel and enshrined these limit values in law."

"Couple Systems has applied for a patent on the DryEGCS^® Process with the Patent Office in Munich."

Company profile

Couple Systems started in 2008 and is in the business of providing environmental technologies for international maritime shipping.

The registered office is in Bardowick, in the state of Niedersachsen, on the southern edge of the city of Hamburg in Germany. The shareholders and employees have known and respected each other for many years, have interfaced professionally although until now, have worked in different industries.

At Couple Systems, the various skills from company management, shipbuilding and engineering of industrial flue gas cleaning have now been brought together. In developing the DryEGCS^® Process for shipping, the company is fulfilling its business objectives.

Couple Systems is the developer, technology leader and manufacturer of the DryEGCS^® Process.