Charlotte-based Babcock & Wilcox Co. said its subsidiary has been awarded a $26 million contract with Consumers Energy’s D.E. Karn power plant in Hampton Township, Mich. B&W’s Power Generation Group will design and supply two spray dry absorber systems for the plant. The systems, also known as dry scrubbers, will be used to reduce sulfur dioxide [...]
Babcock & Wilcox Co. said it has been awarded a $54 million contract for an emissions-control system for a power plant in Indiana. Under the contract, B&W will design and supply two wet flue gas desulfurization units for Northern Indiana Public Service Co.’s R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield, Ind. Charlotte-based B&W said it’s subsidiary, Babcock & [...]
B&W wins $900M contract for waste-to-energy project Charlotte-based Babcock & Wilcox Co. said today it and its consortium partner, BE&K Construction Co., have been awarded a more than $668 million contract for a waste-to-energy power plant in West Palm Beach, Fla. The contract calls is for the engineering, design and construction of the plant for the Solid [...]
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. said it had net income of $53 million in the fourth quarter of 2010, or 45 cents a share, up 170 percent from $19.6 million, or 17 cents a share, in the same quarter of 2009. Revenues for the fourth quarter of 2010 were $705.2 million, up 2.4 percent from [...]
Charlotte-based Babcock & Wilcox Co. said today that Winfred Nash, president of the company’s nuclear operations group, will retire April 1. Peyton Baker, vice president of programs, contracts and central planning for nuclear operations, will succeed Nash.
Charlotte-based Babcock & Wilcox Co. said Thursday that it has been awarded a five-year, $428 million contract by the U.S. Department of Energy. The contract is for uranium conversion operations at gaseous diffusion plants in Paducah, Ky., and Portsmouth, Ohio. Babcock & Wilcox is involved in the clean-energy technology business. It has about 12,000 workers [...]