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ABB laid off 113 of its employees at the South Boston small electrical transformers plant on Wednesday, idling nearly a quarter of the local workforce.

Indian Railways have a goal to improve passenger experience and freight handling, reduce carbon emissions from diesel locomotives and save on fuel costs

ABB has developed a transformer that can operate safely with fast-acting breakers to provide reliable commissioning and load-bank switching operations.

ABB’s leading position in high and ultrahigh-voltage shunt reactors stems from an uncompromising commitment to quality, innovation and technical excellence.

Tobias Hansson – new Senior Vice President of ABB Power Transformers, Europe. He will manage cca 2K people in Germany, Spain, Poland Italy, Finalnd and Sweden.

Germany: ABB has won an order worth around $30 M from Amprion GmbH, a German transmission grid operator that provides electricity to more than 29 million people, from the Alps in South of Germany to Lower Saxony.

UK: ABB has been selected by energy companies SSE Renewables and Equinor to use its high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter systems to connect the world’s largest offshore wind farms to the UK transmission network.

Switzerland: Bruno Melles is appointed new Managing Director of Business Unit Transformers, Power Grids Division at ABB effective from October 2019.

Sweden, Stockholm: Linxon will upgrade an electrical substation for Svenska kraftnät, with ABB as their main supplier.

Indonesia: Working closely with PT Rekayasa Industri, an Indonesia Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) company and their customer, PT Supreme Energy, ABB engineered, manufactured, supplied, installed and commissioned a prefabricated gas-insulated substation, which was delivered on-site fully assembled and factory-tested.

On October 1, 2019 Tobias Hansson assumed the role as the head of ABB in Ludvika.

Bahrain: ABB and GCCIA, the main authority granting efficient power systems in the region, have signed a cooperation agreement in Bahrain.

Austria: ABB has signed a five-year framework contract with Austrian Power Grid (APG), Austria’s transmission system operator, potentially worth more than $100 M to supply gas-insulated switchgear (GIS), in the largest electricity grid expansion to date in Austria.

Chile: ABB will deliver solar string inverters and two MV transformer stations for a 9 MW capacity solar power park in the Maule region of central Chile.

ABB will provide Brazil’s electric power transmission company, Argo Energia, a complete suite of asset management software solutions.

ABB has won orders worth more than $140 M from Swiss train manufacturer, Stadler, to supply state-of-the-art traction equipment for trains and locomotives.

MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has contracted ABB to supply transformers for the turbines at the 950 MW Moray East offshore wind farm off the coast of Scotland.

ABB has received a large order to provide inverter transformers and high voltage equipment for an 800 kV ultra-high voltage direct current transmission project.

ABB and Siemens are now putting the finishing touches on competing versions of the world’s first subsea power-distribution stations.

Japan: ABB won an order for two blocks of frequency converter systems for the Higashi Shimizu project in Japan from Chubu Electric Power Co.

Dubai: Dubai Investments Park (DIP) has signed a $23 M (AED86 M) contract with ABB Industries to commission a new 132/11 kV DEWA substation at DIP.

Switzerland: ABB’s Chief Executive Officer Ulrich Spiesshofer abruptly stepped down after nearly six years of leading the Swiss engineering company.

The switchgear monitoring system market is projected to reach $2 B by 2023 from an estimated $1.4 B in 2018, at a CAGR of 7.83%.

Generator Circuit Breaker market is valued at $270 million in 2018 and is expected to reach $300 million by the end of 2025, growing at a CAGR of 1.4%.

ABB is divesting its Power Grids business to Japan’s Hitachi, which will expand existing partnership between the two companies and provide Power Grids with enhanced access to markets and financing, the company said in a press release.

Switzerland: ABB’s 20,000th TrafoStar transformer was delivered to Scottish Power, a subsidiary of Iberdrola and will be installed at an off-shore wind project in East Anglia.

Egypt: Egypt’s largest original equipment manufacturer of medium-voltage equipment, EGEMAC, requested ABB to supply several thousand medium-voltage air insulated indoor switch-disconnectors type NAL/NALF to improve network performance and reduce energy waste.

Sweden: ABB is investing over $30 million in a new manufacturing unit for transformer components in Ludvika, Sweden.