Formerly | Babcock & Wilcox Ltd |
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Industry | Energy services |
Founded | 1891 |
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Headquarters | Crawley, England Renfrew, Scotland |
Key people | CEO Andy Colquhoun |
Number of employees | 5,414 (2008) |
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Website | https://altradbabcock.com/ |
Altrad Babcock Ltd (formerly Doosan Babcock Ltd.) is a power sector OEM, construction, upgrade, and after-market services company that offers specialist services and technologies to the fossil-fired power generation, nuclear power generation, and oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. AB's main headquarters are in Crawley, England. European headquarters are in Renfrew, Scotland. The company has manufacturing facilities in the UK, Germany, India, Vietnam and South Korea, and 17 offices around the world.[1]
The company began as Babcock & Wilcox Ltd founded in 1891 by the American Babcock & Wilcox company. The boiler manufacturing and energy services division of Babcock International were later sold off to Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding of Japan. After acquiring it from Mitsui in 2006, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction sold the company to Altrad in 2022.
After the purchase by Altrad was completed in September 2022, DB was renamed Altrad Babcock.[2]