Energy Absorption
Buckling Column Fenders
Highly engineered elastomer columns for managing impact energy at ports, terminals, and berthing structures — backed by PIANC data and four catalog sizes.
Speak to a specialistOur American-made fender systems, Linerite® composite batter board material, and commercial dock bumpers are rigorously tested and proven in the field to support ports, terminals, berthing structures, bridge piers, and ferry facilities. Duramax Infrastructure, a new business unit from Duramax Marine, provides solutions engineered with our customers' total system performance and application needs in mind.
On November 4, 2024, Duramax Marine announced the purchase of Morse Rubber's marine bearing and fendering business. The tooling and equipment were moved to Duramax's Ohio-based facilities to maximize the impact to the market through Duramax's existing engineering and sales staff. These new products added a generation of trusted impact-protection and structural wear products to Duramax's offering that professional engineers, port authorities, and contractors have trusted for decades.
Today, these products are manufactured in Ohio to support Duramax's American-made philosophy. The products are also backed by a staff of in-house engineers as well as an in-house lab, guaranteeing improvements on the same designs and data that was provided for decades at Morse Rubber. Duramax has added new capacity to lower lead times and protect the supply chain through American-made materials. Read the full press release
From standard catalog items to large-format molded designs, every system is engineered and produced in Ohio — backed by Duramax's world-class engineering and lab facilities.
Highly engineered elastomer columns for managing impact energy at ports, terminals, and berthing structures — backed by PIANC data and four catalog sizes.
Speak to a specialist
Compact and durable — ideal for small-to-medium vessels where a low, consistent reaction force matters more than peak energy.
A proprietary and highly engineered, nearly indestructible UHMW-PE-faced composite for high-friction wear applications where heavy impacts are present. Provides a long-lasting, highly effective, and environmentally friendly solution that is far superior to other materials available in the market.
New tooling and large-format molding capacity at the Hiram, Ohio plant lets us engineer, prototype, and produce custom designs alongside the standard catalog. Bring us the load case — we'll bring the elastomer, the data, and the part.
Berthing energy & wear
Commercial waterfront
Small-to-medium vessels
Sheet pile cladding
Tooling, molding, and assembly out of Hiram, Ohio — keeping American-made products with a long, proud history in the USA.
Performance curves backed by recognized international guidelines, with in-house testing for custom designs.
Every order ships from a workforce of employee-owners — committed to providing excellent quality, service, support, and value to customers around the world.
Two Ohio manufacturing facilities, world-class engineering and lab capability, and a service footprint that spans the globe.
Duramax Marine traces its history back to 1895 in Middlefield, Ohio. For more than six decades, Duramax has engineered and produced shaft bearings, shaft seals, heat exchangers, and impact protection systems that serve the commercial marine, industrial pump, and naval defense markets around the world. Originally part of the Johnson Rubber Company, Duramax has worked with domestically produced rubber impact products made in Ohio. Duramax Infrastructure brings that same discipline to the working waterfront – pairing the Morse rubber legacy product line with significant capital investments in new tooling, test lab capacity, and R&D for the American market.
Rehab or new construction — bring us the application. Our engineering team will size systems, share PIANC-aligned performance data, and quote domestically produced product on tight schedules. We're built for the tough jobs others won't take.