ABB holds Automation World 2013 in Beijing
ABB Group, a Switzerland based power and automation technology giant, held the ABB Automation World 2013 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing last month. The theme of the event was "Innovative Technologies Improve Productivity".
This was the fifth consecutive year that ABB held this event in China. This year the company has introduced several advance automation technologies, a plethora of products for electric car charging technology, high efficiency electrical machinery, smart home solutions and robot manufacturing system.
Mr Greg Scheu head of marketing and Customer Solutions of ABB Group, said that the group has been deeply rooted in China, and it will continue to invest in China to improve its local R&D, sales, service and production.
In June 2007, ABB High Voltage Switchgear Co Ltd, Beijing and ABB LV Installation Materials Co Ltd, Beijing were set up in Beijing E-Town, a triple-A rated industrial park. The operations of these two plants greatly improved its production facilities and capacity to meet the continuous growth on the demands for high, medium and low voltage equipment from the Chinese market; as well as, those overseas. Beijing E-Town also becomes ABB's global production base.
As one of the four pillar industries in Beijing E-Town, the area's equipment manufacturing industry has attracted many of the world’s leading companies including Corning, Panasonic, Bosch Rexroth, Schneider Electric, SMC and Honeywell. In the first four months of this year, the area saw its industrial output value from equipment manufacturing industry reached RMB 15.57 billion, accounting for 18% of the area's total.
Beijing E-Town aims to build advance equipment manufacturing industry cluster. It is focusing on the development of railway transportation equipment, special equipment for the chemical and medical industry, transformers and switches for the power industry; as well as, machinery for the optical industry.
Source - China Knowledge