ABB (China) Limited

ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve productivity while lowering environmental impact. ABB Group has about 145,000 employees in more than 100 countries with revenues of around US$39 billion in 2012.

As one of the Fortune 500 companies, ABB is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, and listed on Swiss, Stockholm, and New York exchanges. ABB Group was formed in 1988, when the Swedish Asea and the Swiss BBC Brown Boveri merged under the name of ABB.

ABB's relationship with China dates back to 1907, when it delivered the first steam boiler to the country. In 1974, ABB established its first office in Hong Kong, followed by its first permanent office in Beijing in 1979. In 1992, ABB launched its first joint venture in China in Xiamen. In 1994, ABB moved its China headquarters to Beijing. In 1995, ABB's holding company, ABB China Ltd., was formally established.

After years of fast growth, ABB has established a full range of business activities in China, including R&D, manufacturing, engineering, sales, and service, with nearly 19,000 employees, 36 local companies, and an extensive sales and service network across 90 cities. In 2012, ABB reported that China had continued as its second largest market worldwide with $5.2 billion in revenue. In 2003, ABB was rated one of the "Top 10 Employers" in China in a survey jointly conducted by Fortune Magazine, Yahoo, and other organizations. In 2006, ABB China was rated one of the 10 "Most Favorite Employers" by university students in an online survey in China.

ABB's product portfolio in China includes a full range of power and distribution transformers, switchgear technologies for high, medium and low voltage applications, electrical drives and motors, and industrial robotics products. These products are widely used in industrial, commercial, and utility applications. With over 100 years of electrical engineering experience, ABB is a leader in the power and automation industries. Many ABB companies in China are best in class, setting benchmark standards for their peer groups, while serving industries as diverse as metals, pulp and paper, chemicals and life sciences, automotive, utility automation, and building systems.

In China, ABB has participated in many key national projects, such as the Three Gorges power plant, power transmission from the Three Gorges to Shanghai, Changzhou, and Guangdong, the south-to-north water diversion project, the west-to-east power transmission project, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the Beijing Olympic Games stadiums, the Beijing International Airport expansion project, and substation and metro construction. ABB has also provided power equipment to Lianyungang Nuclear Power Plant and water quality monitoring and analysis systems to Chinese environmental authorities, as well as power or automation technology solutions to Asia's largest petrochemical complex SECCO in Shanghai, the Great Hall of the People, many cities’ metro projects, auto manufacturers including Shanghai-VW, Shanghai GM, BMW, steel and metal customers including Baosteel, Shagang, and datacenter customers including Global Data Solutions (GDS).

Website: http://www.abb.com.cn/