ABB

ABB Ltd, headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, is a global technology company formed in 1988 through the merger of Sweden's ASEA and Switzerland's Brown Boveri, both of which carried more than a century of electrical engineering history. ABB's relevance to the valve, pump and pipeline sectors rests on three legs. First, its instrumentation portfolio — including pressure transmitters, flowmeters, level sensors and analytical devices — is widely installed in oil and gas, chemical and water treatment facilities. Second, ABB is a major supplier of variable speed drives and medium-voltage motors, which directly shape pump energy consumption and system efficiency in water, power and process plants. Third, the company's System 800xA distributed control platform and its electric actuation and process automation businesses integrate valves and field devices into larger control architectures. ABB also brings robots and electrification products that serve adjacent industrial needs. With operations in more than one hundred countries and a large installed base in energy and process industries, ABB is frequently specified wherever measurement, drive and control technologies must work as a coordinated whole.