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Alstom has signed two contracts, worth a total value of approximately 450 million euros

Alstom has signed two contracts, worth a total value of approximately 450 million euros, known as the Mannheim 9 project, to supply Grosskraftwerk Mannheim AG with new boiler and turbine units at the company’s Mannheim power plant in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
The new unit* will have an electrical output of over 900 MW and will [...]

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