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About ABB
ABB
Ltd.
Affolternstrasse,
44
CH-8050
Zürich
Switzerland
+41
43 317 7111
+41
43 317 4420 (fax)
www.abb.com
ABB
(Automation Products)
125
East County Line Road
Warminster,
PA 18974-4995
(215)
674-6000
(215)
674-7183 (fax)
www.abb.us.com
ABB
is a global manufacturing and engineering company that manufactures
magnetic, Coriolis mass, vortex, thermal, differential pressure, and
variable area flowmeters. ABB
is also a supplier of pressure transmitters, temperature transmitters, and
wedge flow elements.
The home office of ABB
internationally is in Zurich, Switzerland.
In the United States, corporate headquarters are in Norwalk,
Connecticut. Instrumentation activities are centered in Warminster,
Pennsylvania. Through 2006,
ABB employed about 108,000 people globally.
For the year ending December 2006, ABB Group generated US$24.4
billion in worldwide sales (and US$1.39b in net income) across their
several business segments, representing a healthy return to profitability
compared with 2004 results.
Overview
The
company was formed in 1988 as the result of a merger between ASEA AB of
Västerås,
Sweden and BBC Brown Boveri Ltd. of Baden, Switzerland.
ABB’s worldwide headquarters today are in Zurich, Switzerland.
In January 2005, Fred Kindle succeeded Jürgen Dormann as CEO, and
is also president of ABB Group. Hubertus von Grünberg is now Chairman of the Board, having
succeeded Jürgen Dormann.
In January 1990, ABB of
Norwalk, CT purchased Combustion Engineering Inc. and its subsidiaries,
including ABB Process Automation of Ohio.
Since January 1993, ABB Process Automation (Columbus, Ohio) has
been a wholly owned subsidiary of ABB, Inc. of Norwalk, CT.
ABB
operates in more than 100 countries, with offices in 87 of them. ABB focuses on two core businesses: Power Technologies, which
serves electric, gas and water utilities, and Automation Technologies,
which delivers solutions for control, motion, protection, and plant
integration across many process and utility industries.
For
more information on ABB, go to www.flowresearch.com.
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