Bringing State-of-the-Art Engineering & Manufacturing Capabilities to the North American Market

Alstom Power in Chattanooga, USA

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Bringing State-of-the-Art Engineering & Manufacturing Capabilities to the North American Market

Alstom Power in Chattanooga, USA

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
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 worlds 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

Nuclear plants across the USA

Operational Planned

Alstom Power in action in the USA

Exelon
Chattanooga Facts and Figures
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 Alstoms plants in Birr (Switzerland) and Chattanooga.

Steam turbines: rotor and casing, steam turbine assembly

Gas turbines: rotor and final assembly

Turbogenerators

Moisture separator reheaters and other heat exchangers

The capacity to manufacture the largest steam turbine in the world The largest horizontal lathe in the industry The worlds 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

$300 350,000 350

million investment announced end of 2007 square feet under roof

job creations

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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Bringing State-of-the-Art Engineering & Manufacturing Capabilities to the North American Market

Alstom Power in Chattanooga, USA

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.
Alstoms goal is to build its facility to meet the US Green Building Councils 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

Engineering clean power today

The new engineering facility will broaden Alstoms design engineering resources in North America to support Alstoms 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. 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 Alstoms European facilities have been based in Chattanooga to facilitate the ramp-up.
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Key recycling figures

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tons of steel

Concrete and other materials from

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 Alstoms global engineering network and is equipped with specific expertise in US industrial standards.

Our customers in North America will benefit from Alstoms extensive North American supply scope, as well as local expertise and support.

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Bringing State-of-the-Art Engineering & Manufacturing Capabilities to the North American Market

Alstom Power in Chattanooga, USA

Alstom Powers worldwide presence

Alstom Power in the USA

Alstom Powers operations in the USA are aimed at meeting the needs of the North American power market. Some of Alstoms 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 Alstoms presence in the US market.  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).

Alstom complete portfolio

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.

Air Quality Control Systems

Hydro

Nuclear

Geothermal

Solar

Wind

US Power Profile
u 6,000 permanent employees in 47 states and the District of Columbia u Employee base can exceed 10,000 when including project workers
Tidal Coal Gaz Biomass Energy Management Full Service and Retrofit Offering

US Power Business
u Half of the power plants in the US use Alstom equipment uW  e offer full range of power generation technologies for hydro, nuclear (turbine island),

Alstom supplies major equipment in 25% of the worldwide installed base

N  umber 1 in turnkey power
plants

natural gas, coal, and wind applications uW  e provide the largest scale of solutions to capture particulates and reduce traditional pollutants, including Hg, NOx, and SOx, by more than 90% uA  lstom is leading the way in the development and deployment of carbon capture technologies uA  lstom offers the most efficient solutions for retrofitting boilers, steam turbines and hydro turbines, resulting in lower operating costs and less pollution

N  umber 1 in hydro turbines and

generators

N  umber 1 in steam turbine retrofit

and integrated retrofit projects

N  umber 1 in service for utility

power generation systems

N  umber 1 in the number of

installed boilers worldwide

N  umber 1 in air quality control

N  umber 1 in installed turbine and

generator for nuclear plants
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