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ABB was ranked 340th in the Fortune Global 500 list of 2020 and has been a global Fortune 500 company for 24 years. [7] ABB was formed in 1988 when Sweden's Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (ASEA) and Switzerland's Brown, Boveri & Cie merged to create Asea Brown Boveri, later simplified to the initials ABB
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In July 2020, ABB divested its power grid business and sold 80.1% of that to Hitachi Ltd., leading to the formation of Hitachi ABB Power Grids. [1] In October 2021, Hitachi ABB Power Grids changed its company name to Hitachi Energy. In December 2022, it was confirmed that Hitachi acquired the remaining 19.9 percent shares from ABB Ltd. [2]
This more than doubled the size of the company, taking it from $800 million in annual revenue to $1.8 billion. In 2011, Baldor was acquired by ABB Ltd of Switzerland in an all-cash deal of US$4.2 billion ($1.1 billion debt included). The company continued to operate as Baldor Electric Company A Member of the ABB Group.
In 1903, the predecessor of ABP, ASEA (Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget) in Sweden built the first induction channel furnace for foundry operations. In order to expand the know-how of the company and to consolidate its market position, ASEA decided to merge in 1988 with Brown Boveri from Switzerland and to form ABB (Asea Brown Boveri).
Previously known as Xi'an Electric Machinery Manufacturing Company and Xi'an XD, the company is now part of China XD Group. [ 3 ] The name Xi'an Electric is an abbreviation of the company's name, which is written as Xi'an in Chinese characters, referring to where the company was founded.
The company, legally known as ABB Daimler-Benz Transportation, was created in 1996 as a joint venture between ABB and Daimler-Benz to combine their rail equipment manufacturing operations. In 1999, DaimlerChrysler (successor to Daimler-Benz) bought ABB's shares and changed the company's official name to DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems .