December 02, 2008

Foster Wheeler in talks with BGR Energy for boiler manufacturing

BL reported that the global engineering and construction contractor and power equipment supplier Foster Wheeler Corporation is in talks with Chennai based BGR Energy for a possible collaboration for manufacturing power plant boilers in India.

Mr BG Raghupathy MD of BGR Energy at a recent press conference said that the company is in talks with a large multinational company for collaboration for producing power boilers. He did not mention Foster Wheeler.

He said that the MNC had supplied the boiler for a 460 MW project in Poland of the circulating fluidized bed combustion type and thus Foster Wheeler fits the description as it has supplied the boiler for the 460 MW Lagisza project in Poland, the biggest CFBC boiler ever to be supplied in the world.

Foster Wheeler’s expertise is in CFBC technology. CFBC boilers can burn any type of fuel such as a combination of imported and indigenous coals, lignite and refinery residue. Foster Wheeler which has supplied equipment for over 110,000 MW of capacity across continents has a back office in India for design work.