[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 110 (Tuesday, June 27, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E909]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         CELEBRATING THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF BABCOCK & WILCOX

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                             HON. TIM RYAN

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 27, 2017

  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the 150th 
Anniversary of Babcock and Wilcox. While their headquarters are in 
Charlotte, North Carolina, I am proud to have one of their major 
operations located in my district in Barberton, Ohio. B&W's remarkable 
history began 150 years ago in 1867, when Stephen Wilcox and George 
Babcock established the company to manufacture and market their 
patented water tube boiler.
  Since then, B&W has been at the forefront of energy innovation in the 
United States and around the world. In the 1880s, the company's boilers 
supplied energy for the first electric street lights in Philadelphia 
and the first central public utility, Pearl Street Station in New York 
City. B&W's boilers also powered Thomas Edison's laboratories and New 
York's first subway. In Barberton, B&W Power Generation Group designs 
and builds boiler and steam generators for industry.
  As environmental issues moved to the forefront beginning in the 
1970s, B&W became a leading innovator in emissions control 
technologies. B&W's environmental equipment protects the air we 
breathe, the water we drink and the land we use by controlling 
nitrogen, sulfur, heavy metals, ash, particulates and other emissions 
from hundreds of power plants and industrial facilities around the 
world.
  Today, B&W employs 5,000 people on six continents and continues to be 
a global leader in commercial power and environmental technologies, 
renewable energy, and industrial power and emissions control. As the 
company celebrates its 150th anniversary, it's important for us to 
recognize and to be thankful for the hard work and outstanding 
contributions from the many thousands of employees who have proudly 
served at B&W, our customers for their support and trust in our 
technologies and expertise, and for the communities and the leaders who 
have stood behind B&W all of these years.
  Congratulations on 150 years of quality work and innovation.

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