Productivity improvements have pushed material prosperity higher and faster in the past 50 years than any time in recorded history. Rapid industrialization continues to improve living standards and transform the lives of ordinary people around the world. But maintaining this trend requires advanced, knowledge-based power and automation solutions such as those provided by ABB.
ABB technology is helping a Swedish pulp mill generate enough fossil-free energy to meet its own process requirements and produce a huge 550 gigawatt-hour surplus - enough to meet the needs of 24,000 Swedish homes.
2013-01-07: Two ABB mine hoist systems have helped China’s newest and largest underground coal mine to win an ‘outstanding technology achievement award.’ The ABB solution reduces hoist energy consumption by 28 percent and unscheduled downtime by 70 percent.