Charlotte-based Babcock & Wilcox Co. said a company it helped form has been awarded a $333 million U.S. Department of Energy contract to clean contaminated waste. The contract has been awarded to CH2M HILL-B&W West Valley, which was formed by Babcock & ...

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Charlotte-based Babcock & Wilcox Co. said its joint venture with India-based Thermax has broken ground on a 699,000-square-foot, $160 million boiler-manufacturing plant near Pune, India. The joint venture, formed in 2010, plans to use the facility to fabricate boilers principally ...

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Babcock & Wilcox Co. today said that its subsidiary and Toshiba Corp. are joining forces to collaborate on next-generation thermal and solar technologies and explore cooperating on projects in Asia, India and other emerging markets. The subsidiary is Babcock & Wilcox Power ...

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Babcock & Wilcox Co. today reported its first-quarter net income fell from the same period last year. The Charlotte-based company said net income was $13.5 million, or 11 cents per diluted share, down from $16.8 million, or 14 cents per diluted ...

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Charlotte-based Babcock & Wilcox Co. said today that its Denmark-based subsidiary has been awarded a $35 million contract with Finland-based EkoKem OY to supply equipment for a 36 megawatt waste-to-energy heat and power plant in Riihimäki, Finland. The subsidiary will design, manufacture and ...

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Charlotte-based Babcock & Wilcox Co. said its subsidiary has been awarded a $79 million extension on a contract to make fuel for the U.S. Navy. Nuclear Fuel Services, based in Erwin, Tenn., makes the fuel for the Navy’s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers ...

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Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Operations Group has won a $2 billion contract to manufacture nuclear components for U.S. defense programs, such as naval nuclear power systems for submarines and aircraft carriers. The work will begin this month and is slated ...

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In 2010, 18 companies opened new offices, headquarters or facilities in Mecklenburg County, according to the Charlotte Regional Partnership’s By the Numbers report. Here are profiles of four businesses that decided Mecklenburg is the right spot for them to put ...

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When Brandon Bethards was looking in July for a location for the new Babcock & Wilcox corporate headquarters, he considered Atlanta; Washington, D.C.; and Chicago, among other cities. Examining the locales, Bethards, the company’s CEO, considered where his employees would ...

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