Talk:Westinghouse Electric Company

ABB Group?
I've been following links to Westinghouse to bypass that disambiguation page. This article currently says that BNFL bought ABB Group and merged it with Westinghouse - that can't be right? Any Westinhouse people out there who can tell me what this sentence was supposed to say? --Wtshymanski 17:59, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * It seems that someone shortend the facts too much: ABB sold it's nuclear power division in 2000 to BNFL. --81.63.23.196 00:29, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Renamed?
I worked for Westinghouse Electric Corporation back when they bought CBS. It was this corporation that divided itself into two companies: Westinghouse Electric Corporation, which was the broadcasting portion, and Westinghouse Electric Company, which was the nuclear et al company. (I worked for the nuclear fuel division of the corporation (and then of the company when it was split off).) I left the company before they renamed themselves to CBS and before BNFL bought the nuclear company. Thus, I'm not 100% sure the name wasn't changed in the interim, but the name was certainly Westinghouse Electric Company before BNFL and is certainly the name now under BNFL. It seems most likely that the name was continuous and that BNFL did 'not' rename the company but rather kept the name it was given at its formation by the parent Westinghouse Electric Corporation. --Paul 63.237.124.70 02:02, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

"Devastating blow" ?
The section about Moving to Cranberry Township looks more like a newspaper editorial than a wiki article, so I've tagged it with POV-section. I don't know anything about the matter itself to be able to clean it up properly.

Also, this paragraph includes an inline link to the "memo" that talks about the move; I don't normally see links like this: it smells to me like it would be better to excerpt the key points of the memo, and then list that as a reference instead.

SJFriedl (talk) 18:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Fifty years gap
I notice no mileposts between 1945 and 1995. Didn't the company in those years build many large power stations and other infrastructure around the world, including dozens of nuclear plants, and license the design for the 900 MWe reactors that remain the backbone of Nuclear power in France? It would be nice to see some of the years listed for those developments. Jim.henderson (talk) 18:49, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

There shouldn't be any before 1999 because Westinghouse Electric Company was not founded until 1999.

2601:548:4100:1BAB:4196:A339:494:CD77 (talk) 07:42, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

"Corporate Profile"
Edits referring to "Corporate Profile" appear to be unverifiable. Also, several of those are promotional, and would require a reliable third-party source Tedickey (talk) 09:33, 21 January 2010 (UTC)


 * The company website has no "2009 Westinghouse Corporate Profile", nor does google find it. The company profile already referenced in this topic does not contain the information cited to "Corporate Profile".  Some of it may be verifiable, but not with the given source. Tedickey (talk) 23:22, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

This is the link for the corporate profile - http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/docs/WestinghouseProfile.pdf It would appear that the version has been slightly updated to the 2010 version, but it is still a solid reference and is a published document. —Preceding unsigned comment added by L8 researcher (talk • contribs) 19:37, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Two small updates needed
A request, for anyone who may have this article watchlisted: this article has become outdated and its infobox includes information that is no longer correct. First, Westinghouse Electric Company's CEO is no longer Aris Candris, who retired at the end of March 2012 and was replaced by Danny Roderick. In addition, there is one owner missing from the infobox, 10% stake holder KazAtomProm, and the percentage stake for Toshiba should be 67%, not 77%. On behalf of the company, I would like to ask for two edits to the article's infobox to update this information. I would prefer not to make any edits to the article myself as I am working with the Westinghouse Electric communications team.

The two edits I'd like to suggest for the infobox are:


 * 1) Replace Aris Candris with Danny Roderick
 * 2) In "Owners": update the percentage for Toshiba's ownership to 67% and add KazAtomProm (10%)

Citations for these two changes are provided below, respectively:



The edits are straightforward, so I hope that another editor will be able to make these for me. One note about the ownership, for anyone curious: although it has been announced that Toshiba will be buying the Shaw Group's 20% stake, per the World Nuclear News source I provided above, this sale has not taken place yet so it is still correct to say that Toshiba holds 67% and Shaw Group holds 20%. That should be done in January once the sale goes through. If there are any questions, please reply here and I will respond as soon as I can. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 19:39, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅--ukexpat (talk) 21:14, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 22:29, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

American company
The lede mentions Westinghouse is an American company. Given the fact that it is at least 67% owned and controlled by the Toshiba Group, does this attribute mean anything / make sense? I will put an inline tag up, rather than boldly delete it. please ping me with your opinion.--Wuerzele (talk) 16:22, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
 * self reverted change since I found a proper term: removed 'American' and replaced with 'US based'--Wuerzele (talk) 19:47, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Tesla
Recent promotional edits overlook the fact that while Tesla was connected to Westinghouse, he was not a principal part of the company. A see-also would be relevant. TEDickey (talk) 15:04, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

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Environmental Record
None of the examples in the environmental record have anything to do with current Westinghouse Electric Company, and the links are all dead too. A user tried to remove this section and another user claims "name change doesn't escape liability" which is just false. They are not the same company! They are not even related except by branding. These need to be removed or put on another page, as they simply have nothing to do with WEC.

I will break this down by example.

Sharon Plant - Plant was operated by Westinghouse Electric Corporation until the 1980s, then suspended. Transformer business unit was sold to ABB in late 1980s. http://www.abb.com/cawp/abbzh252/93615b19bb83ce2fc125791900224a5c.aspx

Westinghouse Electric Corporation was responsible for cleanup at former Sharon Plant, and they made a plan and submitted it in 1998, then they dissolved the company in 1999. So the Sharon Plant never even operated when Westinghouse Electric Company was a business, and does not even make anything related to modern-day WEC.

Adams County Plant - Plant was operated by Westinghouse Elevator Co. from the 1960s to the 1980s, then the elevator business unit was sold to Schindler Elevator Corporation in 1989. https://www.schindler.com/content/us/internet/en/about-us/media-north-america/_jcr_content/rightPar/downloadlist/downloadList/29_1333651302336.download.asset.29_1333651302336/sec-fact-sheet.pdf

Westinghouse Electric Company did not even exist until 10 years after this plant was sold to Schindler.

Horseheads Site - This was a Cathode Ray Tube plant initially operated by Westinghouse until it was no longer profitable due to Japanese CRTs dropping market price for CRTs. Toshiba started a joint venture w/ Westinghouse here in 1986 to re-open the facility, then Toshiba bought out Westinghouse in 1989 and it became Toshiba Display Devices Inc., and they later closed the factory after another 1 year joint venture with Matsushita in 2003. https://nylocalizer.com/biz/984025/mt-picture-display-corporation-of-america-new-york http://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/02/nyregion/declining-elmira-buoyed-by-plant-reopening.html?pagewanted=all https://www.twice.com/news/horseheads-crt-factory-close-21908

Once again, this company had nothing whatsoever to do with Westinghouse Electric COMPANY, as it was not even founded until 1999, 10 years after the name Westinghouse was no longer even associated with this factory.

Sunnyvale Plant - The business unit that operated at this site manufactured steam generators, marine propulsion systems, and missile-launching systems for the U.S. Government. It was sold to Northropp-Grumman in 1996, 3 years before the founding of Westinghouse Electric Company.

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/virtual_disk_library/index.cgi/2766887/FID764/rods/Region09/R0900956.pdf https://news.northropgrumman.com/news/releases/northrop-grumman-marine-systems-celebrates-100-years-in-operation-in-sunnyvale-california

In general- This section is not related whatsoever to this page. None of the companies involved are Westinghouse Electric Company. If these need to be on wikipedia, they should be hosted on pages where they are at least related. Just because the name "Westinghouse" is associated does not mean they are the same company or even related. Westinghouse Electric Company has no "liability" for any of these incidents, because they are not Westinghouse Electric Corporation. In fact, the liability seems to in all cases have been resolved prior to 1999 when Westinghouse Electric Corporation became defunct, but any carry-over environmental actions were most likely tacked onto the sale of the business units, so the modern-day companies responsible for the clean-up are ABB, Schindler, Toshiba, and Northropp Grumman. If these entries must reside on Wikipedia, it would be a good idea to find sources that are not broken links (as these are), and also to place them in the company where they are actually related, Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

2601:548:4100:1BAB:4196:A339:494:CD77 (talk) 07:36, 23 February 2018 (UTC)


 * If its a problem of being in the wrong article then it can be fixed by simply moving it, which I have just done. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 02:03, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Page Header Edits
I am working for CBS Corporation on the Westinghouse Licensing Program. After discussion with coworkers, we agree there are improvements to make on the Wikipedia page. We will propose multiple changes as we continue to review the details of the page. In aim to update the header section of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation’s Wikipedia page due to factual inaccuracy of the stated information, here are the proposed edits as followed in bold, with removed content strike-through italicized:

This article is about the business composed of the former nuclear power businesses of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. This article is about the 21st century nuclear power company. For the 19th century company, see Westinghouse Electric Corporation. For the 20th century white goods electric home appliance company, see White-Westinghouse. For other uses, see Westinghouse (disambiguation). Sydneylit (talk) 14:03, 27 August 2018 (UTC)