Thistle Group (Thistle Marine) is a Scottish company established in 1978. The company has a very close association with the commercial marine fishing and offshore oil & gas industry and operates its services on an international scale.

Thistle Group operates three specialist business streams covering all aspects of the industry, Thistle Marine, Thistle Hydraulic Solutions and Thistle Design & Engineering.

Thistle Groups strength lie in its ability to conceptualise and then engineer an appropriate solution within budget and on schedule. Since its formation, Thistle Group has consistently provided a service that delivers maximum value to the fishing, marine and oil & gas industry.

Thistle Group: Thistle Marine, Thistle Hydraulic Solutions and Thistle Design & Engineering work as a professional skilled "workforce" and provide a comprehensive team of specialists with a proven capability and industry knowledge to undertake the most demanding of projects on and offshore.

Thistle Marine with specialist support from its two Group divisions, undertake the design, manufacture, service and repair of cranes for the fishing, marine and oil & gas industry.

Thistle Hydraulic Solutions design and manufacture hydraulic winches to meet the requirements of the fishing, marine and oil & gas offshore sector. In support of our design and manufacturing capability, we also have the in-house ability to adapt, convert and re-furbish 'winch systems' to suit specific application types.

Thistle Design & Engineering is the 'conceptual' backbone of the Groups innovations and it's where our capabilities in problem solving are put through their paces. Thistle Design & Engineering have the in-house expertise to conceptualise and then design and engineer an appropriate solution. With Autocad and Solidworks 3D modelling support, Thistle Design & Engineering can provide complete sets of design drawings for standard and custom made winching lifting equipment and hydraulic circuits to a minimum of BS EN ISO 9001:2000.

MFV Owenie Padraig S611 (ex MFV Wanderer) / Extensive Project: Thistle Group / Marine commenced work at the beginning ...

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Completing Work on Lattice Boom Crane for Offshore Company: Machine shop completing works on a lattice boom crane jib ...

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Reconditioned Marine Crane delivered to Ireland: “Thistlelift Fully Reconditioned BK7 Short Post Marine Crane c/w Thistle 24” W ...

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Fugro Seacore: Guerra Crane order is ready for testing at facilities in Spain: Jason of Thistle Group / Marine went to the factory in Spain ...

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Client Testimonial: Belgian Shipyard refers to Split Net Drum and Single Net Drum ...

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Marine Crane Finally Sold: Thistle Group / Marine Heila HLRM140.3S crane has finally ...

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Winch on Hire to New Client: EMU Ltd: New Client: EMU Ltd. Hiring of Thistle CW6 Cable ...

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Thistle Machine Shop / Old Deer: The Machine shop at Old Deer is currently ...

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Work secured, IDP Shipyard, Belgium vessel Aegir: Thistle Group (Marine) have secured an order for a split net drum and a single net ...

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Order Secured for Guerra Marine Crane: Thistle Group (Marine) have secured an order for a Guerra M380.24A5 Marine Crane ...

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Crane acquisition order for Fisher Offshore: Thistle Group (Marine) will provide Fisher Offshore with a refurbished Heila 70-3S Marine ...

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Winch and Crane Supply Contract for MV Sea Herald: Thistle Group (Marine) were contracted to supply a Guerra 110.90A Knuckle ...

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Equipment Refurbishment for Subsea 7: Thistle Group (Marine) have secured an order from Subsea 7 for the refurbishment of two ...

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