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Product category: Machinery and Production Equipment
News Release from: Foster Wheeler
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 07 April 2006

Spanish plant upgraded to meet emissions
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Contract to supply and install low-NOx burners and to upgrade mill classifiers will let power plant in Spain meet European Union emission regulations.

Foster Wheeler Energia has been awarded a contract by Hidroelectrica del Cantabrico (HC) to supply and install low-NOx burners and to upgrade the mill classifiers on Unit One at HC's Abono power plant in Spain These modifications will permit HC to meet European Union emission regulations

The contract, valued at about US$6.6 million will be included in the company's first-quarter 2006 bookings.

The two boilers at the Abono plant, rated at 360 and 540MW were originally supplied by Foster Wheeler.

They were designed to fire local bituminous coal and blast furnace gas and were commissioned in 1973 and 1985.

In 2005, Foster Wheeler was awarded the contract to upgrade the burners of Unit Two, the newer of the two units.

"This is another important win for Foster Wheeler", said Eric Svendsen, CEO, Foster Wheeler Energia.

"It reinforces our leadership in the Spanish environmental equipment market where, to date, we have won seven environmental retrofit projects since 2004".

"In addition to demonstrating our client's continued confidence in Foster Wheeler's products and services, this latest award extends our long-term relationship with Hidroelectrica del Cantabrico, a very strategic customer".

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