Babcock & Wilcox closes West Point manufacturing plant

North Carolina-based Babcock & Wilcox has announced it has ended production at its West Point industrial boiler manufacturing plant in Mississippi. The closure affects 165 workers, with 50 remaining to help wind down operations.

In 1998 the 250,000-sq.-ft. plant employed 700 people as the company’s only boiler manufacturing plant in the U.S.

The company cited increased global competition and increased federal regulations on coal and fossil fuels as factors in the decision to end production at the plant.