Westinghouse Expands with Multibus I Acquisition

October 1, 2015 | By Business Wire News

PITTSBURGH

Westinghouse Electric Company LLC has purchased the Multibus I product line from U.S. Technologies Inc. to ensure continuity of service to the 41 operating units at 25 global sites that rely on EAGLE, EAGLE 21 and other Multibus I safety systems that are critical to safe plant operations.

“Westinghouse will now be able to directly support nuclear power plants in maintaining safety systems using the Multibus I product line and provide utilities with another option for maintaining their safety systems,” said David Howell, senior vice president, Operating Plants Business for Westinghouse. “In addition to better serving our customers, this purchase further strengthens our Asset Management Program and our mission to ensure that all operating plants demonstrate they are built to last by operating at peak performance.”

In addition to EAGLE and EAGLE 21, the move will allow plants to maintain other safety systems using any of the Multibus I product line, such as reactor vessel level instrumentation, neutron flux monitoring, and plant safety monitoring.

Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba Corporation (TKY:6502), is the world’s pioneering nuclear energy company and is a leading supplier of nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout the world. Westinghouse supplied the world’s first pressurized water reactor in 1957 in Shippingport, Pa., U.S. Today, Westinghouse technology is the basis for approximately one-half of the world’s operating nuclear plants.

U.S. Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of manufacturing, design, engineering, reverse engineering, repair, upgrades and testing of electronic subassemblies for military and commercial customers worldwide. The company offers a full range of manufacturing and project management services for support of legacy systems. Headquartered in Fair Lawn, N.J., with branch offices in Marlborough, Mass., and Reno, Nev., U.S. Technologies has extensive industry experience including military, nuclear, medical, semiconductor/automation, transportation, industrial manufacturing and telecommunications. As a small, privately owned company, U.S. Technologies prides itself on its ability to be truly reactive and focused on customer needs and on being ISO 9001:2008 certified.