The ShibataFenderTeam Group is the leading international fender manufacturer with 60+ years of group experience in fender production, 155,000 fenders in service and 100 years of experience in the production of rubber products. Shibata Industrial, headquartered in Japan, is responsible for rubber production and R&D, with around 300 employees in Japan and Malaysia. ShibataFenderTeam, headquartered in Germany, handles design, manufacturing (steel, foam, PE) and international sales, with its about 80 employees around the world.
The SFT Group offers consulting, engineering, manufacturing, after sales service and testing. Our regional offices facilitate the local contact with customers; located in the US, Malaysia, Spain and The Netherlands, they are supported by a large network of well-established local representatives on six continents. Direct contact between all our employees and partners plays a vital
role in the Group’s development.
Providing safety critical fender systems, SFT has a strong focus on manufacturing all major components in-house, ensuring the highest quality and reliability at its own production facilities in Europe and Asia. Our wide product range and fender sizes, detailed in this catalogue, reflect our expertise in rubber, steel, polyurethane, polyethylene. Key features include Rubber Fender units with single weights of up to 18.5 t, foam fenders with diameters reaching 4.5 m, and steel constructions with single unit weights up to 30 t.
Since 2017, ShibataFenderTeam has advocated the Holistic Approach to fender system design. This approach considers the entire fender system, including project conditions, components and design, and manufacturing, as equally important. The Holistic Approach has been officially endorsed by the PIANC Fender Guidelines 2024.
In 2023, we became the first in the industry to be in a position to provide product-specific CO2 emissions figures for each engineered fender system upon request with our Carbon Footprint Assessment.
Decades of experience have gained ShibataFenderTeam a reputation as a dependable partner in the international port, harbor, and waterways market.