AZZ Inc., a global provider of galvanizing services, welding solutions, specialty electrical equipment and highly engineered services to the power generation industry, said it had been awarded a $15 million contract to refurbish main steam isolation valves and reactor recirculation cooling systems valves at the Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant facility in Mexico.
The contract was awarded by the Comision Federal de Electricidad (the CFE or the Federal Electricity Commission).
Azz, which has its world headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, said the service work is contacted for Laguna Verde Units 1 and 2. The plant is located near Veracruz.
Under the terms of the contract, AZZ will provide specialty proprietary technology to execute valve repair services beginning with Laguna Unit 1 during scheduled outages in the fall of 2015 and continuing in the spring of 2016.
Gary Hill, Vice President and General Manager of AZZ WSI said the work will “extend component lifetimes with high quality and safe performance.”
"This award is indicative of AZZ's ability to provide specialty repair solutions to our international customer base, thereby allowing them to extend component lifetimes with high quality and safe performance. We are grateful for the trust that CFE has placed in AZZ for this important project," he said.
CFE is a company created and owned by the Mexican government. It generates, distributes and markets electric power for almost 36.1 million customers. This figure represents almost 100 million people.
The infrastructure to generate electric power is made up of 214 generating plants, having an installed capacity of 52,854 megawatts.
AZZ Inc. does service work for power generation, transmission, distribution and industrial companies “in protecting metal and electrical systems used to build and enhance the world's infrastructure,” the company said. AZZ Galvanizing is a leading provider of metal finishing solutions for corrosion protection, including hot dip galvanizing to the North American steel fabrication industry. AZZ Energy is dedicated to delivering safe and reliable transmission of power from generation sources to end customers, and automated weld overlay solutions for corrosion and erosion mitigation to critical infrastructure in the energy markets worldwide.