Cranberry Township, PA - Westinghouse Electric Company completed the acquisition of Laveer Engineering, a Canadian-based provider of custom tooling and solutions. The acquisition will further expand Westinghouse's CANDU capabilities, particularly in outage maintenance services.
Cranberry Township, PA – Westinghouse Electric Company today announced further investment in Poland with the establishment of a world-class global shared service center in Kraków.
Warsaw – Westinghouse Electric Company has announced the appointment of Miroslaw Kowalik as President, Westinghouse Poland, effective May 24. In this role, Miroslaw will lead the company’s plans to invest in nuclear technologies in Poland.
Cranberry Township, PA – Westinghouse Electric Company has announced the acquisition of ABB’s AC160N control platform, which serves as the background technology for its U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)-approved Common Q™ safety systems platform. This acquisition marks a key investment into the company’s instrumentation and control (I&C) portfolio to broaden its support of nuclear utilities’ long-term operational strategies.
Cranberry Township, PA – Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Laveer Engineering, a specialized nuclear engineering firm in Ontario, Canada. The acquisition will further expand Westinghouse’s CANDU capabilities, enabling the company to deploy its expertise to CANDU reactor operators worldwide. It also brings a unique combination of tooling and nuclear plant design to Westinghouse customers.
Cranberry Township, PA – Westinghouse Electric Company has announced the appointment of Sam Shakir as President, Environmental Services, effective immediately. In this role, Sam leads Westinghouse’s strategic commercial, operational, and financial expansion as a leading services and technology provider in the global commercial and government nuclear decommissioning and management services markets.
Cranberry Township, PA, March 15, 2021 – Westinghouse Electric Company has announced intentions to invest in nuclear technologies in Poland, following a meeting between Westinghouse Chief Executive Officer Patrick Fragman and Poland’s Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure Piotr Naimski in Warsaw. The meeting came as a result of a finalized Inter-Governmental Agreement between Poland and the United States on cooperation for the implementation of the nuclear energy program, which includes a plan to transfer technology from the United States to the Polish Nuclear Power Program and develop a comprehensive investment scheme with participation of U.S. entities.
Beijing, March 11, 2021 – Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that Sanmen Unit 2, one of the world’s first AP1000® nuclear power plants, has set a new refueling outage record in the global nuclear power industry, completing its initial outage in 28.14 days.
Sofia, Bulgaria - February 4, 2021 – Today, Westinghouse Electric Company and Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant signed a VVER-1000 nuclear fuel licensing contract for the Kozloduy power plant in Bulgaria, a major step forward in the country’s energy supply diversification.
Cranberry Township, PA, December 17, 2020 – Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a contract with Swedish utility Vattenfall to segment the nuclear reactor at its Ågesta Nuclear Plant near Stockholm, Sweden. Under the terms of the contract, Westinghouse will plan, design and manufacture the tools for segmentation; as well as perform the site work. This includes the underwater mechanical cutting of the reactor vessel and its internal components and packing the pieces in containers for Vattenfall to remove from site.
