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FOSTER WHEELER LTD., Hamilton, Bermuda, a builder of power plants and refineries, said a subsidiary had won an engineering contract valued at $15.5 million for a petrochemicals complex to be built in China.
The Zurich-based company, a Swiss-Swedish builder of power plants and other heavy machinery, narrowly averted a financial crisis earlier this year and has suffered a series of embarrassments surrounding current and former top executives and their pay.
Foster Wheeler, a builder of power plants and refineries, reported its fifth consecutive quarterly loss yesterday, restated results for the last three years and said its auditor had raised concerns about its ability to stay in business.
China is the world's biggest builder of power stations, and officials have hinted that they would like to expand their building plans overseas.
For builders of power plants, it rarely gets better than this.
If Mr. Pataki's plan is approved by the Legislature, builders of power plants of less than 80 megawatts will receive a decision on permit applications within six months, although proposals for such plants would still be subject to a mandatory environmental review and public comment.
By comparison, Westinghouse, the largest American builder of nuclear power plants, has not completed a reactor as lead contractor in decades, even though it has built more power plants than any other company in the world, mostly in the 1960s and 1970s.
At a time of slowing growth, the government had loudly promoted its plans to become a major builder of nuclear power plants abroad.
French corporations with their signature headquarters here include the oil and gas giant Total, the big bank Société Générale and Areva, a leading builder of nuclear power plants.
China has just emerged as the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbines and solar panels, and plans to be the world's biggest builder of nuclear power plants in the coming decade.
The Calpine Corporation, a builder and operator of power plants, delayed or canceled $3 billion of turbine purchases and obtained $1.6 billion in bank credit to shore up its finances.
