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Up until the mid 1990’s and operating at the time as Babcock Energy, Mitsui
Babcock was one of the worlds foremost suppliers of HRSGs. In 1993 Mitsui
Babcock were nominated as the “worlds leading supplier of HRSGs” and were
winners of the coveted Power Engineering International “project of the year
award”. To date the company has won contracts in some 23 different
countries. However by the mid 1990s the HRSG market suffered a severe
downturn with limited opportunities and reduced margins. To compound this,
the market was migrating from assisted circulation to natural circulation
designs and the company’s specific technology offering became less
competitive. However with a recent upturn in the fortunes of the HRSG
market particularly in America, Mitsui Babcock have enhanced their product
range by concluding a licensing agreement with Babcock Hitachi KK for
natural circulation designs. Significant orders for utility plant HRSG supply
such as the natural circulating HRSG for Naco Nogales power plant in Mexico
and the assisted circulated HRSG employed at Blackpoint power station in
China have been completed.
Mitsui Babcock employs approximately 3000 people in its various operations
in the UK and abroad. Its headquarters are at Crawley in the UK but operates
locally with regional operations elsewhere in the UK and around the world.
The company’s strengths lie in its depth of engineering capabilities, its
technology base, its extensive manufacturing facilities, its considerable
experience in site erection, commissioning and servicing of major power plant
in countries across the world and its ability and experience in managing very
large multi-disciplinary projects. The company’s combination of
technological, financial and skill resources enable it to deliver projects in a
range from £10 million to £400 million, anywhere in the world.
Thermal Engineering International Ltd – Greens is the largest independent
manufacturer of utility HRSG’s in the UK. Originally known as E Green &
Son the Wakefield based company has amassed over 150 years of experience
in the field of heat recovery since its founder Edward Green invented and
patented the world’s first economiser which he patented in 1845.
TEI Greens has manufactured Utility HRSG’s for most of the world’s leading
boiler designers/makers as many no longer support their own manufacturing
facilities. TEI Greens has been successful in manufacturing HRSG’s for
domestic and export projects and has a wide experience of different designs
including vertical and horizontal gas types and once through designs.
Currently, around 40% of all the UK’s utility HRSG’s have been
manufactured by TEI Greens.
TEI Greens are holders of the ASME S & U stamps and have a large facility
of over 100,000m 2 with extensive workshops. It has 3 x High Frequency
Finning machines in its Wakefield Factory (10 worldwide) for the
manufacture of high frequency welded helical fin tubes as used in modern
HRSG’s. The facility is capable of producing over 120,000 tubes and 10 major
HRSG’s per annum.
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