ABB is a pioneering technology leader in electrification products, robotics and motion, industrial automation and power grids, serving customers in utilities, industry and transport & infrastructure globally. Continuing more than a 125-year history of innovation, ABB today is writing the future of industrial digitalization and driving the Energy and Fourth Industrial Revolutions. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 132,000 employees.
ABB is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland and its shares are traded on the stock exchanges of Zurich, Stockholm and New York. ABB Group was formed in 1988, when the Swedish ASEA and the Swiss BBC Brown Boveri merged under the name of ABB.
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 17,000 employees located in 139 cities, 40 local companies, and online and offline channels across over 300 cities.
In China, ABB has participated in many key national projects including the south-to-north water diversion project, the west-to-east power transmission project, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and venues for the Beijing Olympic Games and APEC summit, Hangzhou G20 summit and Shanghai Expo.