ABB has launched a specialty transformer production facility in Malaga, north-east of Perth, Western Australia, to enhance its transformer manufacturing network.
ABB has received two awards for helping the Isogo Thermal Power Station in Japan and Heshuyuan Power Plant in China achieve low emissions while generating electricity at high efficiency.
ABB has revealed its smallest ever multipurpose industrial robot, the compact and lightweight six-axis IRB 120, weighing only 25kg.
ABB recently conducted workshops on the safe operation and design of machinery and robotics, as part of ABB’s National Robotics Innovation Competition.
ABB has nabbed a three-year, $19 million service contract to provide onsite process control systems and service and maintenance to Vale Inco Nouvelle Caledonie’s process plant on the South Pacific Island of New Caledonia.
ABB has launched a range of low voltage AC drives specifically targeted at pump and fan applications, offering models from 0.37 to 22 kW.
ABB has hit a millennium with its one millionth standard drive rolling off the production line, marking a historic milestone as the first of an ABB drive range to hit this significant figure.
ABB’s new IRB 4600 robot – which has been described as the fastest, most accurate, low-weight, medium-sized robot ever with a 20 kg to 60 kg payload – will be revealed to the industry at National Manufacturing Week (NMW) 2009 in May in Melbourne.
ABB has commissioned the development of a switchgear rated to handle more than one million volts (1,100kV), which breaks new ground in terms of global voltage levels and would be equivalent to turning the electrical consumption of Switzerland on or off within milliseconds, the company says.
Power and automation technology group, ABB, is planning to exhibit at Australia’s National Water Conference and Exhibition, Ozwater 09, which is shaping up to be the largest exhibition of water technologies, processes, equipment and materials ever assembled in Australia.