Wärtsilä started its operations in Brazil in 1990. Since then, we've projected and installed 16 power plants in the Brazilian territory, generating more than 700MW.
In the marine market, Wärtsilä has in Brazil an installed engine base of 196 engines delivering over 600 MW.
Below you can find the main events of Wärtsilä in Brazil:
1987 - Wärtsilä signs a licensing agreement with Ishibras Shipyard to manufacture Wärtsilä Vasa 22 engines in Brazil. Wärtsilä and Ishibras cancelled the agreement in 1990.
1990 - Wärtsilä Diesel do Brasil was founded.
1991 - Wärtsilä Diesel do Brasil gets its first Ship Power order, the supply of generating sets to the Navy.
1996 - Wärtsilä sells the first Power Plant in Brazil; Hermasa.
1997 - Wärtsilä sells the first Operations & Maintenance Agreement for the O Globo Power Plant.
1997 - Wärtsilä becomes Wärtsilä NSD after the acquisition of New Sulzer Diesel, and the local company name is changed to Wärtsilä NSD do Brasil.
1998 - Wärtsilä opens a branch office in Manaus.
1998 - Wärtsilä sells the largest HFO Power Plant at that time in the history of the Corporation; Rio Negro Power Plant.
2000 - The company's legal name changes to Wärtsilä Brasil Ltda.
2000 - Wärtsilä inaugurates its first workshop in Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro.
2001 - Wärtsilä Brasil relocates Service and Ship Power operations to São Cristovao, RJ
2003 - Wärtsilä Brasil concentrates Power Plants, Service and Ship Power operations in the same building in São Cristovao, RJ.
2003 - Wärtsilä inaugurates its second workshop in Brazil, in Manaus.
2005 - Wärtsilä sells three Power Plants for Manaus; Gera, Manauara and Rio Amazonas.
2005 - Wärtsilä signs a license agreement with Nuclep commencing 2-stroke engine manufacturing in Brazil, 15 years after the last Brazilian produced large diesel engine.
2006 - The three Power Plants sold in 2005 for Manaus (Gera, Manauara and Rio Amazonas) are inaugurated.
2007 - Power Plants moves to a new office in Rio de Janeiro Downtown due to an increase in personnel that made it impossible to accommodate all staff in São Cristovao.
