For the past 17 years, the BPMA’s Pump Industry Awards have been recognizing the best performing companies, products and people for their achievements and positive contributions to this important industry sector. In 2018, the BPMA will again recognize those who strive for business, professional and engineering excellence. Eight awards are up for grabs at the 2018 event:
ABB
ZURICH -- ABB last week completed its acquisition of Bernecker + Rainer Industrie-Elektronik GmbH, Austria-based independent provider focused on product- and software-based, open-architecture solutions for machine and factory automation worldwide.
ABB first announced its acquisition plans in April 2017. The transaction was financed in cash.
ZURICH, Switzerland -- ABB last week officially opened its new Canada headquarters, which will consolidate 700 employees in a $90 million Montreal facility.
ABB has dubbed the headquarters "Campus Montreal", which will house R&D, manufacturing, assembly and testing for ABB's energy value chain. The facility will also house the hundreds of employees previously spread across six locations in the area.
ZURICH, Switzerland (April 18, 2017) -- ABB has secured a $30 million order to boost electricity to more than 250,000 households in Bangladesh.
The company will build two new substations and upgrade two existing substations in southeastern Bangladesh, which will add around 535 megawatts of transmission capacity to the country's infrastructure.
ZURICH, Switzerland (April 4, 2017) -- ABB on Tuesday announced the acquisition of Bernecker + Rainer Industrie-Elektronik GmbH, an Austria-based independent provider focused on product- and software-based, open-architecture solutions for machine and factory automation worldwide.
A purchase price was not disclosed, but the deal is expected to close by the end of summer 2017.
WINTERTHUR, Switzerland (March 23, 2017)—Sulzer has been chosen to provide the U.K. market with maintenance and repair services for ABB medium- and high-voltage motors and generators.
The agreement provides ABB customers with direct access to the specialist skills and extensive facilities of Sulzer’s service centers in Birmingham and Falkirk, according to a statement from Sulzer.
HOUSTON (March 14, 2017)—ABB unveiled its latest electrical innovations for the U.S. market, resulting from research and development, and operational investments of more than $60 million, according to a statement from the company.
The investments for power distribution and protection, and residential circuit protection, complete ABB's portfolio extending its broad range of installation products from Thomas & Betts, the business ABB acquired in 2012, the company said.
ZURICH, Switzerland (Jan. 10, 2017)—ABB has teamed up with India’s national electricity grid operator, Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID), in a mega project worth more than $640 million, according to a statement from ABB.
ZURICH, Switzerland (Nov. 2, 2016)—ABB has won an order of more than $40 million to provide advanced power equipment to the 800-kilovolt (kV) Dianxibei-Guangdong ultra-high-voltage direct current (UHVDC) transmission link, according to a statement from ABB.
ZURICH, Switzerland (Oct. 27, 2016)—ABB announced that Timo Ihamuotila has been named Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee, effective April 1, 2017. Ihamuotila succeeds current CFO Eric Elzvik in an orderly transition process. Elzvik will pursue career opportunities outside of ABB after a thorough handover in second quarter of 2017, according to a statement from the company.