Wabtec Acquires Bloom Engineering to Strengthen its Heat Transfer and Energy Solution Portfolio
December 30 2024 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB) announced today it has acquired
Bloom Engineering, Inc., a leading provider in industrial heating
applications. This acquisition strengthens Wabtec’s portfolio of
heat transfer and energy solutions, integrating Bloom Engineering’s
advanced technologies in burners, combustion systems, and overall
services for industrial and process heating applications. The
combination of Bloom Engineering with Wabtec’s existing portfolio
of products and services will accelerate global growth in this
highly profitable segment, while providing increased value to its
worldwide customer base.
“This is another exciting addition to Wabtec,” said Mike Fetsko,
President of Wabtec’s Freight & Industrial Components Group.
“Bloom Engineering is a great fit within our Heat Transfer and
Energy Solutions business, and we already serve many of the same
customers. Our shared vision toward driving customer productivity
within their industrial processes will enable us to deliver a more
comprehensive portfolio for our customers to operate more
efficiently and sustainably.”
Bloom Engineering’s extensive design and engineering expertise
complements Wabtec’s existing capabilities. The world’s leading
metal producers have relied on Bloom to identify ways to improve
efficiencies, unlock production capacity in their plants, and
decrease CO2 and NOX emissions.
Bloom Engineering will join Wabtec as part of its Freight and
Industrial Components Group. Wabtec acquired Bloom in the fourth
quarter for $69 million in cash, financed through cash on hand and
a revolving credit facility. Wabtec expects Bloom to be immediately
accretive to EPS excluding transaction costs, further enhanced with
strong synergies to be realized over the next three years.
About Wabtec
Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB) is revolutionizing the way the
world moves for future generations. The company is a leading global
provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added
services for the freight and transit rail industries, as well as
the mining, marine and industrial markets. Wabtec has been a leader
in the rail industry for over 150 years and is the worldwide leader
in the decarbonization of freight rail. Visit Wabtec’s website at
www.wabteccorp.com.
About Bloom Engineering
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Bloom Engineering, Inc.
(bloomeng.com) is a global company with employees and offices in
the United States, Germany, India and China. Since its founding in
1934 by Fred S. Bloom, the company has led the way in providing
custom-engineered industrial combustion products. The company has
been awarded more than 80 U.S. and foreign patents for advances in
combustion and furnace technology and continues to hold innovation
as a core value.
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