Westinghouse Electric Co. recently completed the purchase of Canada-based Laveer Engineering, a custom tooling and solutions provider.
The purchase allows Westinghouse to expand its Canada Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) capabilities, specifically outage maintenance services. It also will allow the company to provide a wider range of solutions to Canadian clients and clients in the global CANDU market.
According to the Canadian Nuclear Association, CANDU reactors are heavy water reactors that use deuterium oxide as a moderator and coolant and use natural uranium as a fuel. Canadian scientists and engineers developed the method.
Globally, 30 CANDU reactors are in operation in Canada, Argentina, China, India, Romania, and South Korea.
The purchase adds to Westinghouse’s global workforce, bringing the total to more than 9,000 employees in 19 countries and more than 200 in Canada.
Westinghouse supplied the first commercial pressurized water reactor in Shippingport in 1957. It supplies approximately 50 percent of the world’s operating nuclear plants with nuclear plant products and technologies.
Based in Burlington, Ontario, Laveer Engineering was founded in 2013. It is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company and is CSA N299.1-16 compliant and produces custom tooling and equipment for the nuclear power generation industry.
The company employs 15 technicians, engineers, and project managers.