{"id":8,"date":"2012-09-23T19:45:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T17:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ansaldo.italy-on-line.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:11:04","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acboilers.com\/en\/company\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Established in 1853 as \u201cAnsaldo\u201d, in 2001 AC BOILERS SpA,\u00a0was acquired by SOFINTER, an Italian private Holding that gathers companies active in the power and water business sectors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major milestones in our history<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">1853<\/span>\u00a0Establishment of Ansaldo Co.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">1860<\/span> First marine boiler<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">1958<\/span> First 320 MW Boiler (Unit No. 1 of La Spezia Thermal Power Plant)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">1962<\/span> First 660 MW coal fired supercritical Boiler (Unit No. 4 of La Spezia Thermal power Plant)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">1980<\/span> First contract for coal fired boilers in India (Ramagundam, 3&#215;210 MW)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">1989<\/span> Contract award for the 20th supercritical boiler in Italy (Montalto di Castro Power Plant)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">1992<\/span> First contract for Heat Recovery Steam Generators for Combined Cycle Power Plant (Enel \u2013 Trino Vercellese 4&#215;120 MW GT)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">2001<\/span> AC BOILERS is acquired by Sofinter and becomes an independent boiler maker<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">2004<\/span> Contract award for 3&#215;660 MW Ultra Supercritical clean coal fired boilers for Torrevaldaliga Nord Power Plant<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">2005<\/span> Contract award for 3&#215;2,000 t\/h boilers for the Shuaibah IWPP project, phase III, in Saudi Arabia, among the largest crude oil fired units in the world<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">2005<\/span> AnsaldoCaldaie Boilers India Pvt. Ltd. is established in Chennai. The Company, 85% owned by AC BOILERS, designs, manufactures and supplies Utility Boilers and Heat Recovery Steam Generators in India.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">2006<\/span> A milestone: HRSG # 100 awarded (250 MWe Horizontal \u2013 Rizziconi Combined Cycle Power Plant, Italy). The award follows a number of other successes for AC BOILERS in the supply 250 MW Class HRSGs installed in 400 MW Combined Cycle Power Plants such as Rosignano, Sparanise, Santa Barbara, Vado Ligure, Escatron.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">2008<\/span> Contract award for 2&#215;650 MW oil and gas fired boilers for Abu Qir Power Plant, Egypt. With this award, which follows the contract for 2&#215;350 MW Units for El Tebbin Power Plant in 2007, AC BOILERS enlarges its track record in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">2009<\/span> Shuaibah (Saudi Arabia) and Torrevaldaliga North (Italy) units start successfully commercial operation<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">2012<\/span>\u00a0With the contract awards for 2 HRSG\u2019s for Bahna 400 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant and 1&#215;650 MW oil\/gas fired boiler for Suez Power Plant, AC BOILERS confirms its leadership on Egypt\u2019s market.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">2013<\/span> Contract for the Engineering and Supply of 2 HRSG\u2019s for a 512 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant in Alaoji (Nigeria).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">2014<\/span> AC Boilers wins a 330 Million Euro contract for the Supply of 3 Super Critical Boilers in Egypt, 650 MW each, designed to run on Oil &#038; Gas. In the same year, AC Boilers wins a contract in the UAE for the supply of 3 HRSG\u2019s downstream 260 MW Gas Turbines.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007000;\">2015<\/span> AC Boilers wins 3 contracts: one for the supply of a 138 t\/h Biomass Boiler in the Martinique island; the other two for the Engineering, Construction, Supply and Erection of 12 HRSG\u2019s downstream 124 MW GT\u2019s for the Al Shabab (8 units) and West Damietta (4 Units) Combined Cycles in Egypt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"int_gallery\">\n<h4>Gallery<\/h4>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Established in 1853 as \u201cAnsaldo\u201d, in 2001 AC BOILERS SpA,\u00a0was acquired by SOFINTER, an Italian private Holding that gathers companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":850,"parent":846,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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