Babcock & Wilcox, Magotteaux Form Strategic Alliance - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Babcock & Wilcox Co. (BWC) announced that its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. or B&W PGG, and international wear solutions supplier Magotteaux have formed a strategic alliance to enable B&W PGG to market Magotteaux's advanced coal pulverizer grinding media and Metal Matrix Composites Vertical Roller Mills (VRM) parts to its U.S. and international customers and to investigate other strategic growth projects.

The agreement will allow B&W PGG to supply Magotteaux-manufactured pulverizer balls, grinding segments, tires and other VRM components to customers in the power generation and other industries. It brings together Babcock & Wilcox's extensive pulverizer experience and Magotteaux's expertise in wear materials.