SVA Potsdam

The SVA Potsdam GmbH is an independent shipbuilding research institute with a worldwide customer base. Our company is characterized by flexibility, responsiveness and precision. With more than 60 years of experience at the Potsdam Marquardt location and having roots going back to the Imperial Era, the SVA has successfully served industry and science. The core of the SVA is the towing tank. Here we have an experimental facility which, with its state of the art linear drive and equipment, allows for the outstanding precision of the experiments. In addition, the cavitation tunnel and friction measurement facilities are available, which underline the main focus of the SVA on propulsion. The objective of SVA is and always was to be and to remain at the cutting edge of the hydrodynamic development. For this reason, a significant portion of the work of SVA are research projects that benefit all the industry and the economy. Our goal has always been to respond quickly to new challenges in...