Altrad Babcock Ltd (formerly ''Doosan Babcock Ltd.'') is part of Altrad. It is a power sector OEM, construction, upgrade, and after-market services company that offers specialist services and technologies to the fossil-fired power generation,

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generation, and oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. AB's main headquarters are in

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. European headquarters are in

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. The company has manufacturing facilities in the UK,

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and

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, and 17 offices around the world. The company began as Babcock & Wilcox Ltd founded in 1891 by the American

Babcock & Wilcox Babcock & Wilcox is an American renewable, environmental and thermal energy technologies and service provider that is active and has operations in many international markets across the globe with its headquarters in Akron, Ohio, USA. Historicall ...

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.

Company products and services

Thermal

Doosan Babcock provides a range of through-life services to the thermal power industry, including project design and construction, plant maintenance, asset integrity, shutdown/turnaround management, plant life extension and upgrades. The company provides OEM boilers to power plants burning traditional and renewable fuels, plus a range of firing technologies, subcritical or supercritical systems and unit sizes from 100MW to 660MW and above. It has a license agreement with Harbin Boiler, the largest boiler maker in China. Doosan Babcock is the developer of the thermal OxyCoalTM oxy-fuel boiler, used at the Vattenfall Oxyfuel pilot plant in Schwarze Pumpe in Germany. Oxy-fuel boilers use pure oxygen rather than air as the primary oxidant to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. The company is active in the

carbon capture and storage Carbon capture and storage (CCS) or carbon capture and sequestration is the process of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) before it enters the atmosphere, transporting it, and storing it (carbon sequestration) for centuries or millennia. Usually th ...

sector and was responsible for designing, building and commissioning the UK’s largest carbon capture pilot plant in Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire, which began operations in November 2011. The project, which uses the company’s advanced amine scrubbing technology is a collaboration between SSE, Doosan Babcock and

Vattenfall Vattenfall is a Swedish multinational power company owned by the Swedish State. Beyond Sweden, the company generates power in Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The company's name is Swedish for "waterfall", an ...

, and is the first of its size to be integrated into a live power plant in the UK.

Nuclear

Doosan Babcock has been a major supplier of specialist services to the nuclear industry for around 60 years, since it built the steam raising plant for the world's first commercial nuclear power station, Calder Hall UK, in 1956. Approximately 3500 Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel (SQEP) offer engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), plant maintenance and decommissioning services to the nuclear power industry in the form of specialist support teams, bespoke projects and turnkey solutions. The company has a presence at every nuclear power generating site in the UK. As a specialist provider of nuclear decommissioning services, Doosan Babcock has managed decommissioning projects at sites around the UK, including

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and Bradwell. The company offers techniques and processes for the removal of radioactive waste and the remediation of nuclear facilities. It is at the forefront of waste encapsulation technologies.

Oil, gas and petrochemical

Doosan Babcock provides project design and construction, plant maintenance, asset integrity assessment, shutdown/turnaround management, plant life extension and upgrade services to the global oil, gas and petrochemical industry. The company's oil, gas and petrochemical clients include BP,

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, Essar, Total,

ConocoPhillips ConocoPhillips Company is an American multinational corporation engaged in hydrocarbon exploration and production. It is based in the Energy Corridor district of Houston, Texas. The company has operations in 15 countries and has production in ...

ExxonMobil ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, and was formed on November 3 ...

SABIC Saudi Basic Industries Corporation ( ar, الشركة السعودية للصناعات الأساسية), known as SABIC ( ar, سابك), is a Saudi chemical manufacturing company. 70% of SABIC's shares are owned by Saudi Aramco. It is active in ...

and Nippon Gohsei.

Technologies

Doosan Babcock develops and manufactures proprietary safety assessment tools such as the pipe vibration meter, a hazardous area logger and a pipe reeling test rig, and can repair and replace plant components in large workshops in Europe and Asia. The company also deploys a range of asset integrity assessment technologies, which include non-destructive testing, laser 3D scanning and remote visual inspection.

Safety record and awards

Doosan Babcock achieved eight million man-hours without a lost time incident (LTI) at INEOS Grangemouth in Scotland and 10 million man-hours without an LTI on an emissions-reduction project at

Castle Peak Power Station The Castle Peak Power Station () is the largest coal-fired power station in Hong Kong. It is situated in Tap Shek Kok, Tuen Mun District, on the north shore of Urmston Road. It was named after the nearby Castle Peak. The station consists of four ...

in Hong Kong. In 2013 the company was presented with the ExxonMobil Fawley Site Contractor Safety Award and the British Safety Council's Sword of Honour for best practices in Health and Safety. In 2012 Doosan Babcock completed over 36,000 field welds with a 99.88% success rate. The Grangemouth site in the east of Scotland, recently achieved 12 million man hours without a lost time incident (LTI). This helped them achieve the prestigious British Safety Council's Sword of Honour in 2017, which was awarded to them in London.

History

Babcock & Wilcox Limited - Works - Renfrew - Scotland - circa 1919

The US

Babcock & Wilcox Company Babcock & Wilcox is an American renewable, environmental and thermal energy technologies and service provider that is active and has operations in many international markets across the globe with its headquarters in Akron, Ohio, USA. Historicall ...

opened an office in Glasgow, Scotland in 1881. B & W commenced boiler making with and in the Singer Manufacturing Company works at Clydebank, initially using components shipped from the US. In 1891, Babcock & Wilcox formed a British company named Babcock & Wilcox Ltd. The board members include renowned Scottish structural engineer

Sir William Arrol Sir William Arrol (13 February 1839 – 20 February 1913) was a Scottish civil engineer, bridge builder, and Liberal Unionist Party politician. Career The son of a spinner, Arrol was born in Houston, Renfrewshire, and started work in a cotton ...

and Andrew Stewart, of the Lanarkshire-based steel tubemakers A & J Stewart and Menzies, subsequently

Stewarts & Lloyds Stewarts & Lloyds was a steel tube manufacturer with its headquarters in Glasgow at 41 Oswald Street. The company was created in 1903 by the amalgamation of two of the largest iron and steel makers in Britain, A. & J. Stewart & Menzies, Coatbridg ...

. A manufacturing facility at Renfrew, Scotland based on the existing Porterfield Foundry was established in 1895 In 1956, Babcock & Wilcox supplied the steam raising plant for the world's first commercial nuclear power station,

Calder Hall Sellafield is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning. Former activities included nuc ...

in the UK. Babcock Power Ltd established in 1979; later renamed Babcock Energy Ltd. Babcock Energy Ltd was floated on the stock exchange in 1982, becoming Babcock International PLC. In 1987 Babcock International entered a short-lived merger with FKI Electricals, forming FKI Babcock PLC. In 1989, FKI Babcock PLC demerged to form

Babcock International Group PLC Babcock is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alpheus Babcock (1785–1842), American piano and musical instrument maker * Audrey Babcock American operatic mezzo-soprano *Barbara Babcock (born 1937), American actress * ...

and

FKI PLC FKI was a British engineering and manufacturing company headquartered in Loughborough, Leicestershire. For many years listed on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index, it was taken private by buyout firm Melrose in ...

. In 1995, a 75% stake in Babcock's boiler manufacturing and energy services activities (known as Babcock Energy Ltd) was sold to

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding () is a Japanese company. It is listed on the Nikkei 225. Mitsui E&S is one of the companies of the Mitsui Group. Established in 1917 as the Shipbuilding Division of Mitsui & Co. with the first shipyard at Tamano. In 1937 the shipyards beca ...

of Japan, to become Mitsui Babcock Energy Ltd. Babcock Energy Ltd provides the steam generators for the British

Sizewell B The Sizewell nuclear site consists of two nuclear power stations, one of which is still operational, located near the small fishing village of Sizewell in Suffolk, England. Sizewell A, with two Magnox reactors, is now in the process of being d ...

nuclear power station. Mitsui sold Babcock Energy Ltd to Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, a subsidiary company of the

Doosan Group Doosan Group () is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation. In 2009, the corporation was placed in the ''Fortune'' Global 500 index. It is the parent company of Bobcat and Škoda Power. Doosan Group is the oldest running company i ...

of South Korea in 2006. The UK company is renamed Doosan Babcock Energy Ltd. In 2010, Doosan Babcock Energy Ltd renamed Doosan Power Systems Ltd, then in 2012 renamed Doosan Power Systems UK Ltd. In 2013, Doosan Power Systems UK Ltd renamed as Doosan Babcock Ltd. The same year Doosan Babcock Ltd invested £20 million in UK test facility and research and development activities. New offices opened in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

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