Shibatafenderteam

The ShibataFenderTeam Group is the leading international fender manufacturer with 60+ years of group experience in fender production, 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 reflect our expertise in rubber, steel, polyurethane, polyethylene. Since 2017, SFT has advocated the Holistic Approach to fender systems design. This approach, which considers the entire fender system—including project conditions, components & design and manufacturing— in the fender selection process, has now 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 SFT a reputation as a dependable partner in the international port, harbor, and waterways market.