Altawest is an industrial group, acting as a technology developer, an OEM and Services provider for the environment and energy markets.

Nuclear power

The Altawest companies operate on the nuclear power station market as OEM and Services providers:

  • Rotating machinery manufacturing, with qualification for the most stringent requirements regarding safety, reliability and availability
  • Rotary machinery retrofit, on-site or in our workshop
  • Heat exchanger and pipe manufacturing or retrofit
  • On-site services handled by certified personnel and processes

JEUMONT Electric displays the widest range of maintenance and retrofit for generators from all manufacturers and power levels.

Conventional power

Altawest companies operate as OEM on the conventional power station and CHP market (boilers, generators, induction and synchronous motors for auxiliary functions, instrumentation and control systems), through JEUMONT Electric and Leroux & Lotz Technologies:

  • Large fossil fuel power plants
  • Gas or diesel-fired power plants
  • Biomass and co-firing plants

The Group companies operations cover the full boiler-turbine-generator range for maintenance, retrofit and transformation.

Hydropower

Altawest is a leading player on the hydrogenerator market through JEUMONT Electric and JEUMONT Electric Maintenance:

  • Horizontal and vertical generators
  • Generators and engines for pumped-storage facilities
  • Excitation and control systems

The Altawest companies also offer a wide range of maintenance and retrofit services for these facilities.

Wind energy

Through JEUMONT Electric, Altawest markets advanced technologies for wind energy turbines:

  • Power curve optimisation
  • Minimisation of the weight inside the wind power nacelle, on-shore and off-shore
  • 75% reduction of the amount of permanent magnets, i.e. that of rare earths used

These technologies increase reliability and prove to be especially well-suited for wind farm retrofitting: a direct drive generator replaces the gearbox-generator combination.

Marine

The Altawest companies have been displaying their experience in the marine industry for more than 60 years, with a particular focus on on-board energy generation and propulsion systems. JEUMONT Electric is world leader for submarine propulsion and markets a broad range of power generation and electrical propulsion systems:

  • Submarines
  • Naval surface vessels
  • Cruise ships
  • LNG carriers
  • Support vessels
  • Renewable Marine Energies

JEUMONT Electric and Leroux & Lotz display maintenance and retrofit solutions and offer mechanicals equipments for Renewable Marine Energies.