Alstom Power in Chattanooga, USA
Bringing State-of-the-Art Engineering & Manufacturing Capabilities
to the North American Market
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Alstom Power in Chattanooga, USA
Bringing State-of-the-Art Engineering & Manufacturing Capabilities
to the North American Market
Alstom Power ramps up its presence in North America
Alstom Power has opened a new manufacturing and engineering facility in Chattanooga,
on the banks of the Tennessee river, to serve both new and retrofit equipment markets
in North America. From the Chattanooga site, we can ship our high-technology components
directly to our customers and address the growing needs of the power market.
Production will cover major
components for power plants
Steam turbines:
rotor and casing, steam
turbine assembly
Turbogenerators
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Gas turbines:
rotor and final
assembly
Moisture separator
reheaters and other
heat exchangers
Advanced technology manufacturing
and engineering site
The facility has the capacity to
manufacture capital-intensive
components with high-technology
content for nuclear, coal, and gas power
plants (both new and retrofit), and to
assemble and test all products using
the most up-to-date high-precision
machine tools available today.
In fact, the Chattanooga manufacturing
and engineering site will have the
capacity to manufacture the world’s
largest turbines.
The Chattanooga site will work in close
cooperation with its sister site in
Morelia, Mexico, which is responsible
for manufacturing diaphragms, blades
and other power plant components.
The combined local NAFTA content will
be around 80%.
Excellent infrastructure
and strategic location
The new Chattanooga manufacturing
and engineering site benefits from
excellent road networks, rail links, and
direct access to the US inland waterways
system. It features a barge dock with
lifting capacity up to 1,000 tons, well
suited to shipping large and heavy
products manufactured in Chattanooga.
The Chattanooga manufacturing and
engineering site will deliver the same
high standards of quality and production
efficiency for which Alstom is worldrenowned.
Chattanooga
Operational
Nuclear plants
across the USA
Planned
Alstom Power
in action in the USA
Exelon
Chattanooga
Facts and Figures
$300
350,000
350
million investment announced end of 2007
square feet under roof
job creations
The capacity to manufacture the largest steam turbine in the world
The largest horizontal lathe in the industry
The world’s largest rotor balancing facility
Most advanced machine tools
Proprietary Alstom rotor welding technology
Access to road, rail and waterways to reach power plants across
North America
On-site barge dock with lifting capacity of up to 1,000 tons
Exelon Corporation, one of the largest energy
companies in the USA, has contracted Alstom
to supply steam turbine retrofits at three of
its nuclear power plant sites. The retrofits will
increase output by around 40 MW per unit,
increase operational efficiency and improve
plant reliability. The new components will
be manufactured in Alstom’s plants in Birr
(Switzerland) and Chattanooga.
UniStar
Alstom is to supply Baltimore-based UniStar
Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between
Constellation Energy and EDF, with a minimum
of four turbines generators for a planned fleet
of advanced-design nuclear power plants
in the United States. The Chattanooga facility
will play a key role in manufacturing, assembling,
and delivering key components of steam turbine,
generator and related equipment.
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Alstom Power in Chattanooga, USA
Bringing State-of-the-Art Engineering & Manufacturing Capabilities
to the North American Market
Building the Chattanooga facility to high environmental
standards
Building a sustainable factory includes energy efficient design -skylights, insulated siding, process
heat recovery- which leads to a 35% reduction in building energy consumption.
Alstom’s goal is to build its facility to
meet the US Green Building Council’s
standards for LEED (Leadership in
Energy & Environmental Design)
Gold certification.
A sustainable facility
From design to final completion,
environmental sustainability is a priority
for the new Chattanooga plant.
The LEED certification criteria include
energy and water efficiency, material
recycling, indoor air quality and low
emission transportation. The facility will
save 35% in energy use thanks to
energy-efficient features.
Environmentally sustainable design
and construction have lasting and
far-reaching benefits:
• Recycled concrete debris was used in
new road construction
• Skylights cover 75% of the occupied
space, reducing electricity
consumption
• Heat generated from our
manufacturing process will
supplement the HVAC*, saving energy
• Captured rain water will irrigate the
landscaping. More than 50% of the
site, other than the building footprint,
will be returned to green
• The site promotes low-emission
transportation with bicycle racks,
preferential parking for low emission
vehicles and public transportation access
Recycling from the Chattanooga site
also benefited the local community.
A number of reusable materials
(doors, windows, AC units, etc.), as
well as pre-engineered buildings, have
been donated to local institutions.
* Heat Ventilation Air Conditioning system
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Key recycling figures
3,400
tons of steel
Concrete and other materials from
12
acres of buildings and
parking lots
Engineering clean power today
The new engineering facility will broaden Alstom’s design engineering resources in North
America to support Alstom’s manufacturing growth and help develop a competitive local
supply base.
As a global leader in power technology,
Alstom has extensive experience in
ramping up engineering capabilities in
new locations and establishing
processes to integrate engineering work
performed at different locations all over
the world. Recent experiences include
new engineering centers in China, India
and Brazil.
As well, a number of US engineers have
been sent to Europe for on-the-job
training, some for a few months, others
for a couple of years.
The Chattanooga engineering center is
an integral part of Alstom’s global
engineering network and is equipped
with specific expertise in US industrial
standards.
Our customers in North America will
benefit from Alstom’s extensive North
American supply scope, as well as local
expertise and support.
We are applying proven methods to
build our engineering center in
Chattanooga.
Following one of the best practices of
knowledge transfer in the industry, we
are applying proven methods to build
our engineering center in Chattanooga,
from the recruitment of engineers with
the right skills set, to on-the-job
training in Europe.
Several experienced engineers from
Alstom’s European facilities have been
based in Chattanooga to facilitate the
ramp-up.
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Alstom Power in Chattanooga, USA
Bringing State-of-the-Art Engineering & Manufacturing Capabilities
to the North American Market
Alstom Power’s
worldwide presence
Alstom Power in the USA
Alstom Power’s operations in the USA are
aimed at meeting the needs of the North
American power market.
Some of Alstom’s main facilities in the USA:
• The Chattanooga turbine manufacturing
and engineering site will have the
capacity to manufacture the largest
turbines in the world and to meet the
needs of the North American market.
• The utility boiler manufacturing facility
in Chattanooga has the capacity to
manufacture pressure parts for utility,
industrial, marine, resource recovery and
steam generators, pressure vessels for
the USA, and worldwide markets.
• The material technology center located
in Chattanooga comprises the material
development, testing and failure analysis
for the power industry and plays an
important role in Alstom’s presence in
the US market.
Alstom complete portfolio
• Alstom Power main offices are
located in Windsor (CT), Richmond
(VA), Chattanooga (TN), Knoxville
(TN), Denver (CO), Jupiter (FL)
and Washington, DC. In addition,
Alstom has service centers located in
Harrisburg (PA), Erlanger (KY), Aurora
(CO), Suwanee (GA), Tyler (TX) and
Chattanooga (TN).
With the most comprehensive and balanced portfolio of generation equipment in the
market, including the removal of traditional pollutants, Alstom is well positioned to assist
plant operators apply the most appropriate technology mix to meet their market conditions.
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Air Quality Control Systems
Hydro
Nuclear
Geothermal
Solar
Wind
Tidal
Coal
Gaz
Biomass
Energy Management
Full Service and Retrofit Offering
US Power Profile
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and hydro turbines, resulting in lower operating costs and less pollution
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Alstom Power Turbomachines LLC
1201 Riverfront Parkway
Chattanooga, TN 37402
USA
Phone: +1 423 826 3000
Fax: +1 423 826 3001
www.alstom.com/power