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2010-08-06 - An ABB robotics solution has reduced the energy consumption of an Electrolux production line by 15 percent. The solution has also boosted productivity and production flexibility, improved health and safety, and significantly reduced the factory’s carbon footprint.
2010-08-03 - ABB has helped a European renewable energy company develop an award-winning wind turbine for urban environments that helps make towns and cities more sustainable and consumers more energy efficient.
2010-06-21 - Several hundred million containers and billions of tons of bulk cargo pass through the world’s ports each year. Much of it is loaded, unloaded and stacked by highly automated cranes equipped with ABB automation and electrical systems.
2010-06-17 - The largest grid-connected solar power plant in the Nordic countries, built on the roof of an ABB factory, has been powered up during an inauguration ceremony attended by Finland’s Minister of Economic Affairs and dignitaries from academia, industry and business.
2010-06-09 - New ABB solar inverters* for residential and commercial buildings as well as a megawatt station for photovoltaic power plants are being introduced to the market for the first time at the Intersolar fair in Munich, Germany - the world’s largest exhibition for the solar industry.
2010-06-08 - ABB medium-voltage drives have slashed the energy consumption of two boiler feed pumps at a coal-fired power plant in Germany by 25 percent. The solution increases plant revenues by $800,000 a year and reduces annual CO2 emissions by 10,200 tons.
2010-05-30 - ABB delivered one of the world’s first transformers in 1893. Today, ABB is the global leader in this vital power technology, with a leading global market share and an innovation track record that is second to none.
2010-05-21 - An ABB condition management system is providing the world’s most energy-efficient cruise liner with round-the-clock remote monitoring of its vital energy-saving electric propulsion systems.
2010-02-26 - ABB’s Azipod® propulsion systems have had a huge impact on the operating efficiency of ships and floating vessels – reducing their energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 25 percent.
2010-01-21 - ABB has developed a revolutionary water treatment technology that cleans oily wastewater – by far the largest waste product in oil and gas production - quickly, cost-effectively and energy-efficiently, ready for discharge with zero environmental impact.