#Switzerland

The electricity sector has proven to be resilient and is playing a critical role in the response to COVID-19 pandemics and recovery efforts.

Switzerland: PFIFFNER Group have unified their marketing messages under one common platform visible on the new website www.pfiffner-group.com.

Hitachi ABB Power Grids is launching an open and scalable TXpert™ Ecosystem for digitalisation of transformers.

R&S Rauscher & Stoecklin designed a new earthquake-resistant transformer set to make sure the transformers will not move or fall in case of an earthquake.

Mesh Systems provided instrumental technical advice and expertise to ABB in the development of the ABB Ability™ platform.

PFISTERER Holding AG welcomed Dr Konstantin Kurfiss as a new member of the Management Board alongside Stephan Götschel (responsibility for sales and technology)

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

Pfiffner International AG, a solution supplier for customers in the sectors of electrical energy and rolling stock, has announced the acquisition of Haefely Test AG.

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.

ABB’s Power Grids business has been awarded an order from the Aibel/Keppel FELS for the HVDC transmission system for the DolWin5 project.

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

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has won orders from three major US utilities for its new solution to deliver hardened and bullet resistant transformers, and facilitate the protection of critical grid assets.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB announced that Timo Ihamuotila has been named Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee, effective April 1, 2017.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB said the company’s third-quarter orders declined 14 percent due to the hesitation of customers although the cost-saving programs helped improve the Swiss power transformer maker’s profit margin, according to the official press release.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has developed, manufactured and energized a 1,200 kV ultra-high-voltage power transformer to support India’s plans to build a 1,200 kV transmission system, supplementing the existing 400 kV and 800 kV transmission grids.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has received orders to supply gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) and shunt reactors to Red Eléctrica de España (REE), the transmission agent and operator of the Spanish electricity system, to support the upgrade of the electricity transmission infrastructure on the Canary Islands.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has developed an UHVDC transformer bushing capable of handling 10,000 MW of direct current electrical power rated for 800 kV, which enables larger transmissions of power over longer distances.

Switzerland, Zurich: Canadian utility Hydro-Québec (HQ) has placed orders with ABB worth over $85 million to upgrade its 800 kV air-insulated switchgear (AIS) substations and transmission grid with new power transformers, shunt reactors and circuit breakers.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has launched a new traction transformer designed to reduce the weight of on-board components and ensure more energy-efficient rail networks, according to the manufacturer statement.

Researchers at the Switzerland’s Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have found a way of looking inside the iron core of transformers, a significant step towards understanding how transformers work today and in the development of more efficient transformers in the future.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB is supplying two new 400 kV substations for the Pen y Cymoedd wind energy project, being developed in south Wales by Vattenfall.

Switzerland: ABB has won orders worth around USD 40 million from Poland’s national transmission system operator (TSO) to provide transformers that will extend and upgrade the transmission grid.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB presented the results of the second quarter of 2016, highlighting solid progress on profitability.

Switzerland: 1,100 kV UHVDC power link has the capacity to transmit 12,000 MW of electric energy over 3,000 kilometres.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has won an order worth more than $30 million from Norway’s transmission system operator Statnett for two substations that will strengthen grid reliability and boost power supplies in Norway.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has completed the upgrade of the Celilo HVDC (high-voltage direct current) converter station in Oregon, part of Pacific Intertie, the first major HVDC link in U.S. transmission history, originally commissioned by ABB in 1970.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has won an order from Singapore Power (SP) PowerAssets for the supply of five shunt reactors to be installed in three SP PowerAssets substations.

Switzerland, Zurich: Five substations have been commissioned in India to integrate a 648 MW solar project at Kamuthi in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to the national transmission grid.