Fast Facts
- Babcock & Wilcox boilers supply more than 270,000 megawatts of installed capacity in over 90 countries around the world.
- In the past six years, Babcock & Wilcox Canada has attained approximately 30 percent of the world market for replacement nuclear steam generators, and leads the replacement market in the United States.
- Approximately half of the world's electric power is supplied by water-tube boilers. In addition, boilers using Babcock & Wilcox technology are now providing more than 23 percent of the world's boiler-powered electricity generation capacity, and more than 35 percent of the capacity in the U.S.
- B&W has manufactured 50 percent of all of the process recovery boilers in operation at pulp & paper mills in North America. Worldwide, about 20 percent of the process recovery boilers in operation are B&W boilers.
- The company earned more awards for flue gas desulfurization (scrubber) equipment for boilers over 25 MW than any other supplier in the world in calendar year 1996.
- B&W has designed, manufactured and installed the largest single-unit utility boilers in North America, each generating steam for 1,300 MW of electric power.
