July 6, 2007 -- French engineering group Alstom SA has won a $119 mln (87.5 mln euro) order to supply equipment to the Estreito hydroelectric plant, which is being built in Brazil, Alstom said on July 6, 2007. The equipment will be manufactured in Alstom's plant in Taubate, in Brazil's southeastern Sao Paulo state, and delivered to the border between the northeastern states Maranhao and Tocantins where the hydroelectric facility is located. Deliveries are scheduled to start in June 2010.

The Estreito plant will have a capacity of 1,088 MW. It is owned by the Ceste consortium, formed by Brazil's mining and logistics giant CVRD, construction group Camargo Correa, aluminium maker Alcoa and French utility group Suez, via its Brazilian subsidiary Tractebel. The plant's machinery and equipment will be provided by Alstom's Brazilian subsidiary, Alstom Brasil, and German Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation GmbH & Co.

Source: Latin America News Digest
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