Toshiba takes over Westinghouse Electric

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | 10-17-2006 | Patricia Sabatini

[RS_Rider]

I don't post often but I didn't see this article and would like to hear some feedback. I have been working at the Westinghouse energy center lately and know some freepers are interested in this.

[Perdogg]

Toshiba switchgear???

[RS_Rider]

Toshiba Electric, as in "Sorry Sylvania" in the old TV ads.

[Max in Utah]

I have been working at the Westinghouse energy center...

To commemorate this very special occasion, we will be having a ceremony at our Energy Center Headquarters on Friday, October 20. Energy Center Complex employees will be invited to attend...

Lucky you!

[moonman]

Was Westinghouse Electric always a British company? I thought it to be American.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Didn't Westinghouse invent the airbrake?

[Max in Utah]

Was Westinghouse Electric always a British company?

No, British Nuclear Fuel Ltd. bought Westinghouse a few years ago from Viacom.

"You can be sure..."

[RS_Rider]

Unfortunately, I caught the axe last week. As it turns out Westinghous hired too many new people and China has not signed a pending contract for 4 new reactors yet. I'm a scumbag contractor so I was told to go somewhere else and work. Missed the big ceremony. There's a big portrait of George Wetinghouse at the entry way, cant imagine what he might have thought of his empire being sold to the Japanese.

[Max in Utah]

Sorry about the axe thing. We'll get rolling pretty soon though, I think.

If Old George was coupled up to a generator I bet he'd be spinning fast enough to generate a kilowatt or two.

[RS_Rider]

Of what used to be 154 business units, the nuclear division is the only one to still carry the Westinghouse name. It's just a name, the empire is dead and burried.

[Michael Barnes]

It's just a name, the empire is dead and burried.

A lot of folks I knew blamed Michael Jordan for that..

[Fred Hayek]

Not the same Toshiba that sold machine tool sets for making submarine propellors?

[RS_Rider]

My opinion is that if they go through with the China deal, China will be providing the world with the latest in nuclear technology. They don't play nice!

[RS_Rider]

I'll bet the shareholders wished the basketball guy was running the show.

[My2Cents]

Mass firing?

[1rudeboy]

Yup.

[Max in Utah]

Mass firing?

Golly, I hope not!

[Michael Barnes]

No doubt...I enjoyed working there when I did, too bad the company was wholesale dismantled.

[RS_Rider]

no mass firing, thinning of expendables

[Max in Utah]

Wrong Jordan-- we had "Chainsaw Jordan", who sold off the most profitable divisions, like Thermoking.