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ABB Azipod units propel the world’s largest cruise ship across the Atlantic

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:25:38 GMT

2009-11-17 - Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas, the largest and most spectacular cruise ship ever built, has completed its maiden voyage across a stormy Atlantic Ocean, driven by an energy-efficient power and propulsion system from ABB.

ABB technologies that changed the world
Part five: extended automation

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:26:03 GMT

2009-11-16 - ABB pioneered one of the world’s first distributed control systems in the early 1980s and remains to this day the global market leader and the company with the largest installed base of process automation systems worldwide.

Raising product quality at steel mills

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:29:21 GMT

2009-11-11 - ABB technology is enabling steel manufacturer Outokumpu to produce defect-free products and avoid costly customer claims at its flagship Tornio Works steel mill in Finland.

ABB standard promises huge savings for process industries

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:53:49 GMT

2009-11-06 - An ABB team has played a key role in defining the new OPC standard that will enable the process analyzers and control systems of different suppliers to be interoperable. The potential cost savings for the pharmaceutical and other process industries are huge.

Helping an ancient Turkish city use water more efficiently

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:24:47 GMT

2009-11-05 - ABB WaterMaster flowmeters are enabling the ancient city of Konya in central Turkey to accurately measure the flow and consumption of water, which is pumped from hundreds of wells in and around the city.

Breaking ice and saving energy in the Antarctic

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:16:12 GMT

2009-10-26 - ABB is providing a complete power, propulsion and automation solution that will make an Argentine icebreaker more energy efficient and environmentally friendly as it works in one of the toughest and most sensitive environments on earth – the Antarctic.

Connecting renewable energy to the grid

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:56:54 GMT

2009-10-22 - Big cities need large amounts of electricity to function. Often, this is transported from generating sites located in remote areas hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away.

Saving energy with ABB drives

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:35:56 GMT

2009-10-22 - Processes driven by electric motors consume vast quantities of electricity and even small improvements can lead to dramatic savings. ABB’s installed base of low-voltage drives, which control the power consumed by electric motors, saves an equivalent of 140 million tons of CO₂ each year.

Drinking water from the sea

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:24:09 GMT

2009-10-22 - It covers two-thirds of the earth's surface and makes up 75 percent of the human body. Water is the cradle of life, but some parts of our planet have almost none and many regions are critically short of drinking water. ABB water solutions are helping to turn that around.

Breaking records in paper mill productivity

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:12:58 GMT

2009-10-20 - A complete ABB power distribution and electrification solution is enabling a mega-size paper machine to break world speed and productivity records while minimizing power consumption in this, one of the world’s three most energy-intensive industries.