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ABB News
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ABB cables connect the world’s power systems
The orders are from an impressive cross-section of utilities, grid operators and large industrial energy consumers. They want stable grids, an efficient and reliable way to trade energy, and the ability to deliver electric power in an ...
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ABB facility lights the way to energy efficiency
ABB has an extensive portfolio of technologies to help its customers use power efficiently and exploit renewable sources of energy. But the Group has also been running a two-year program to reduce consumption internally by 5 percent per manufactured ...
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ABB will power up the world’s biggest financial district
Occupying a greenfield site of more than 500 acres in the rapidly developing state of Gujarat, Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT) will be the world’s largest international financial services center and IT hub when it is completed in 2017. ...
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ABB innovation increases breaker performance in power plants
The innovation has enabled ABB to increase the nominal current of its HECS family of generator circuit breakers (GCBs) from 18,000 amps (A) to 23,000 A, an increase of almost 28 percent. Previously GCBs of this rating required a so-called `forced` ...
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ABB wins US$31-million power order in Switzerland
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth US$31 million from Kraftwerke Linth-Limmern AG (KLL) to supply two turnkey substations and auxiliary power equipment for a hydro storage power plant facility at the ...
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ABB wins US$77m power order for Delhi International Airport
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order of $77-million for design, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of electrical products and systems for the new Terminal 3 (T3) building at Indira Gandhi ...
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ABB automates solar cell chemical technology
The expansion will enable Evonik to triple production of ultra-pure chlorosilanes, raw material in the production of photovoltaic (PV) silicon. PV silicon is the substance from which solar-grade silicon wafers are made, which are the key components ...
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ABB wins US$170m contract for Baltic Sea power link
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, announced it has won a contract worth US$170 million from Svenska Kraftnät and Fingrid Oyj, the transmission system operators in Sweden and Finland. ABB will supply two HVDC (high-voltage, ...
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ABB announces net income almost tripling in 2007 to $3.8bn, CEO Fred Kindle to leave
ABB Chief Executive Officer Fred Kindle is leaving the company due to irreconcilable differences about how to lead the company. The Board of Directors named Chief Financial Officer Michel Demaré as interim CEO. Fred Kindle joined the company in ...