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CORRECTION -- Sumitomo Electric Selects Kinectrics to Complete Commissioning Testing for the A-Nord HVDC Underground Power Transmission Project
OSAKA, Japan, Sept. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a press release issued under the same headline on September 23, 2025, by Kinectrics Inc, please note that the project completion year is 2027, not 2030, and a Forward-Looking Statements section has been added to the release. The corrected version follows: Kinectrics, a division of BWX Technologies Inc. (NYSE: BWXT), has been awarded a multi-year contract by Sumitomo Electric Industries (SEI) Ltd., to provide comprehensive commissioning testing
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