2009-11-16: ABB pioneered one of the world’s first distributed control systems in the early 1980s and remains to this day the global market leader and the company with the largest installed base of process automation systems worldwide.
2009-10-26: ABB is providing a complete power, propulsion and automation solution that will make an Argentine icebreaker more energy efficient and environmentally friendly as it works in one of the toughest and most sensitive environments on earth – the Antarctic.
2009-10-22: Big cities need large amounts of electricity to function. Often, this is transported from generating sites located in remote areas hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away.
2009-10-22: Processes driven by electric motors consume vast quantities of electricity and even small improvements can lead to dramatic savings. ABB’s installed base of low-voltage drives, which control the power consumed by electric motors, saves an equivalent of 140 million tons of CO2 each year.
2009-10-22: It covers two-thirds of the earth's surface and makes up 75 percent of the human body. Water is the cradle of life, but some parts of our planet have almost none and many regions are critically short of drinking water. ABB water solutions are helping to turn that around.