2009-01-05: Potain, the world’s leading manufacturer of tower cranes, has selected ABB's direct current (DC) drives for a range of heavy-duty cranes that operate in some of the most demanding construction environments in the world. Both the drives and ABB met performance criteria that no other drive or vendor could match.
2008-12-22: ABB is enabling sugar cane plants throughout Central America become self-sufficient producers of energy and earn substantial revenues by exporting surplus electricity to local power grids.
2008-12-12: An ABB revamp of a shovel excavator at a Lafarge cement quarry in Germany cut the machine's energy consumption by 15 percent and extended the service life of this key item of heavy-duty mining equipment by 15 years.
2008-12-05: Road tunnel accidents in Europe have claimed many lives and shut down vital traffic routes in the past decade. A new operating system co-developed by ABB integrates tunnel control processes and improves the safety of these essential travel routes.
2008-12-01: ABB is supplying a comprehensive power and automation solution for one of the world’s largest solar thermal power plants – a solution that includes uniquely accurate control equipment to enable the 1,248 parabolic troughs to capture maximum energy from the sun.