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Nuclebras Equipamentos Pesados S.A. - Visit website
NUCLEP, located in Itaguai, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was founded in December 1975 to design and fabricate heavy components for the primary circuits of nuclear power plants. It was a strategic decision because Brazil, at the time, had no company for that task.
With the slowing down of the national nuclear programme in the 1980s, NUCLEP capitalised on its high-level industrial and technological capacities to enter new markets. It established partnerships with some of the country's top companies and started to produce sophisticated components for the non-nuclear energy sector and for the offshore, naval, mining, oil and chemical industries of Brazil. In 1986, the Brazilian Navy requested NUCLEP to develop and fabricate the pressure hulls for a series of submarines.
Wärtsilä signed a licence agreement on the 11 January 2006 with NUCLEP. The agreement grants NUCLEP the right to manufacture certain types of Wärtsilä’s most modern electronically-controlled common-rail two-stroke marine diesel engines with bore sizes between 50 and 68 cm at its premises in Itaguai with a targeted annual output of six to ten engines.
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