Energy efficiency for a connected world.A profile of ABB in South Africa

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Dear Reader,

I take pleasure in presenting you with a brief profile of ABB South Africa. Welcome to our world of leading power and automation technologies and committed and talented people.

During our past 16 years in South Africa ABB has achieved phenomenal growth, particularly in recent years. We produced record orders of R4,4 billion in 2008 and revenues of R3,3 billion. The way forward will be driven by demand from Eskom’s expansion programme, municipalities replacing ageing equipment, growth in the mining and industrial sectors and customers requiring energy efficient technologies. The ABB team is equipped to solve the challenges that face our customers.

We are extremely proud of our investment in local content, and our manufacturing facilities in Longmeadow, Alrode and Botshabelo, stand witness to our commitment. Health and safety is a key priority for ABB and our manufacturing operations are certified with OSHAS 18001 occupational health and safety listings.

We are very excited about the move to our new headquarters at Longmeadow in 2009. Our R400 million state-of-the-art building will be the new home to our administration and manufacturing and will accommodate our logistics centre. About 1 000 employees from Alrode, Elandsfontein, Midrand and Sunninghill will relocate to Longmeadow. This move highlights our continuing investment in South Africa.

In our business mix of products, systems and services, we have made every effort to observe and meet the system requirements of our customers through a combination of high performance, low total life-cycle costs and lower environmental impact. As we want to make a difference in energy consumption, we did not

Letter from the CEO and Country Manager

hesitate to sign the voluntary National Energy Efficiency Accord in 2005 to reduce energy consumption and are on track in our own operations. Our new head office and manufacturing centre at Longmeadow will incorporate green building and energy efficient technologies.

We have demonstrated our support of Black Economic Empowerment with a 20% interest in ABB South Africa held by WIPCAPITAL, a financial services company owned and run by black women with broad-based shareholder participation.

Our sustainability programmes ensure that we engage with local communities to help develop technical skills, alleviate the suffering of orphans of HIV/AIDS, protect the environment and involve the youth in energy.

In this profile we share insights into our business, products, systems, services and people. Together with our employees and partners we are well positioned to serve our customers and local communities. We are dedicated to our values and core competence, and uphold corporate governance and compliance as the bedrock of our success.

Thank you for your continued confidence and support in our products, systems, services and our people.

With kind regards

Carlos Pone

Customer focused, committed to sustainable business growth

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A proud history

Pioneer and leader

Over the past 100 years, electricity has become the world’s most flexible and reliable form of power. Throughout this development, ABB has been a pioneer and leader in electrical engineering and industry atuomation solutions and systems. Innovation and quality are key characteristics of our service and product offering.

The ABB Group was formed in 1988, when the Swedish Asea and the Swiss BBC Brown Boveri merged under the name ABB. Asea’s history dates back to 1883. BBC Brown Boveri was founded in 1891.

Asea and BBC (ABB) have been represented in South Africa since 1907 and 1924, respectively.

Today, the company is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance, while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs more than 120,000 people. The group is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. ABB Ltd shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Zurich, Stockholm and New York.

The Group established operations in South Africa in 1992 when it was clear that the country was firmly set on the path towards democracy. Since then ABB has made extensive investments in South Africa, both in manufacturing and building local capacity through engineering skills.

ABB in Southern Africa employs nearly 2500 people and has operations in Angola, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe,

and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is represented in twelve centres throughout South Africa.

The company has become a key player, growing organically and through acquistions. In 1996, ABB acquired York (Pty) Ltd, the largest manufacturer of plastic enclosures. With service intrinsic to core business, a strategic acquisition was made in early 2000 with the purchase of Predict Engineering Services.

In 2002 ABB successfully combined its medium voltage switchgear business with that of Reyrolle Switchgear, which it acquired from NEI Africa to increase its capacity to meet market demand.

As a leading power and automation technologies company, ABB South Africa has grown its business through targeting electricity utilities and industry customers. We have five divisions: power products, power systems, automation products, process automation and robotics.

The company – and the country – have benefited from its investment in local engineering capability. ABB now has more than 250 engineers specializing in these areas and customers have direct access to specialists who can be deployed for rapid problem solving and advice. Capabilities also include design, engineering and project management.

We deliver our products and expertise through channel partners such as original equipment manufacturers, engineer, procurement and construction firms, wholesalers and distributors.

A leader in power and automation technologies, ABB South Africa helps utility and industry customers to use electrical power effectively and to

increase industrial productivity in a sustainable way.

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Empowerment

Creating opportunities through empowerment

A culture of empowerment reaches all corners of ABB and the communities in which we operate. Company management is committed to equality in the workplace, and embraces the ambitions and objectives for transformation. This is a global behaviour and is also very much in place in South Africa.

ABB was one of the first engineering companies in power and automation technologies to venture into a relationship with a Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) company. In 1999 ABB formed ABB Karebo Manufacturers (Pty) Ltd in one of the company’s core business fields, high voltage switchgear. ABB also established a new BEE company, ABB Kutlwanong, in its enclosures business. A continuing commitment to transformation resulted in ABB South Africa selling its 50% share in ABB Powertech Transformers to Powertech in 2007 to facilitate BEE ownership.

A memorable event in transformation at ABB South Africa was the partnership with Women’s Investment Portfolio Holdings (WIPHOLD), a women-run and managed financial services group, through the sale of 20% of the shares of the local holding company. This initiative also paved the way for greater empowerment of women in the electricity power industry. The partnership recognises the contribution that ABB has made towards the growth and development of the country through direct foreign investment assisted by its global network.

Empowerment also cascades into the area of procurement. ABB and actively supports Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE), and the Group’s procurement focuses on developing and increasing accredited BEE and Small to Medium Enterprises (SMME) suppliers. About 25% of ABB’s procurement bill is with accredited BEE suppliers. The business units for power and automation technologies proactively engage SMMEs to help them with their business growth and development. The company is increasing its enterprise development to advance emerging smaller suppliers into the mainstream of the economy. An empowerment scorecard is in place and suppliers are consulted to align them with the BBBEE legislation.

Internally, a high number of young engineers have been recruited from previously disadvantaged communities. A strong contingent of black male and female employees are in the management ranks of the company. This includes Board positions and senior management appointments. ABB initiatives at work go well beyond the seamless delivery of technology solutions. A talent management programme actively assists in the recruitment of young engineers and engages with developing high potential employees, including women in manufacturing.

Because of positive experiences with customers, shareholders, business partners and employees, ABB will continue to support empowerment as a strategic component of its business objectives.

ABB supports BEE suppliers in several areas of its supply chain.

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Sustainability

Supporting communities: building for tomorrow

A core element of ABB’s approach to business is the need to act with responsibility to stakeholders, ranging from shareholders and customers to employees and the communities in which we operate.

Corporate responsibility, underpinned by key values and beliefs, is ongoing work, requiring careful monitoring and openness to help us determine risks and opportunities.

For ABB sustainability means seeking a balance between economic development, environmental stewardship and social progress. Sustainability is built into different aspects of our business, including the manufacturing of energy-saving products, systems and solutions, the sharing of technology thoughout our group, particularly with developing countries.

ABB South Africa’s sustainability programme supports a range of social development projects to reach out and touch the lives of the needy and most vulnerable in communities. ABB’s corporate social investment programme supports technical skills development, care for orphans of HIV/AIDS, as well as environmental awareness and energy efficiency.

Recognising the skills shortages and its impact on economic growth, ABB has embarked on a programme with the Swiss South Afircan Co-operation Invitiative (SSACI) to support the development of technical skills at Further Education and Training (FET) colleges. The programme provides students with excellent working experience in a modern international engineering workplace, and gives lecturers support by enabling them to attend ABB’s leading technology courses to update industry relevant knowledge.

To support efforts to care for orphans of HIV/AIDS, ABB has teamed up with non-governmental and community based organisations such as Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity (Noah) and Starfish Greathearts Foundation.

ABB supports about 1000 children orphaned by HIV/AIDS throughout the country. Employees also volunteer their time to assist with ABB supported HIV/AIDS projects.

Environmental education is vital to help learners make a positive contribution to their local environments. ABB supports a programme run by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) called the Eco-Schools project, which promotes environmental awareness and youth in energy.

In its operations in South Africa ABB management is committed to health and safety in the workplace. A comprehensive health and safety programme ensures that staff are well informed. “Seven steps that save lives” is a company initiative aimed at staff working in the electrical engineering field, and who are exposed to more than 1kV of electricity. Project safety management is an awareness programme aimed at project and contract engineers as well as contract and site managers. A driver training programme has been implemented.

The company has introduced voluntary testing, counseling and educational (VCT) initiatives in which many employees have participated.

Environmental stewardship is important to ABB. All our manufacturing operations have ISO 14001 listings and we promote energy efficiency at all our sites. In addition to the ABB Group objectives, in line with international standards, we signed the voluntary National Energy Efficiency Accord in 2005 to reduce energy consumption. We will also incorporate green building and energy efficiency automation technologies in our new head office and manufacturing centre at Longmeadow, Johannesburg. ABB supports programmes to care for orphans of HIV/AIDS.

ABB South Africa’s support of the WWF Eco-Schools project at

Motherwell, Eastern Cape, is helping to engage the youth in energy.

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Local manufacturing and engineering

Global excellence in local productionWherever the ABB Group conducts its business, the company ensures commitment and engagement with the local economy. South Africa is very much part of the ABB global manufacturing footprint with ABB making large investments in local manufacturing and machinery.

ABB considers manufacturing as intrinsic to its business value chain, and its operations result in employment creation that benefits a number of local communities.

ABB’s local manufacturing contributes towards developing the country’s exports. Alrode, east of Johannesburg, is home to the manufacture of ABB’s AC electrical machines. Besides extensive deliveries to local industry, the motor factory exports to Africa, the United States, Europe and Asia. For example, the factory produced 11 9 MW machines for toxic gas scrubbing at coal-fired power stations in the United States. This ABB factory is also a repair facility for many other manufacturers. Locally, large AC machines are manufactured for the mining, pulp and paper and petrochemical industries, as well as power utilities.

ABB’s local rectifier operation in Johannesburg manufactures rectifier plants and related engineering and commissioning services for both local and export markets.

Low voltage systems are manufactured in Johannesburg where worldwide, standardised, common line product engineering ensures best-in-class delivery of low voltage power distribution and motor control systems.

ABB manufactures a vast range of enclosures at its factory at Botshabelo in the Free State Province. From single family houses, multiple dwellings, industrial constructions like office and administration buildings to special products, efficient enclosures from ABB are used wherever power is metered and distributed.

The company’s medium voltage manufacturing in Johannesburg is yet another stalwart in the company’s

manufacturing portfolio for power products. It replicates ABB’s global capability in manufacturing state-of-the-art medium voltage switchgear products – from circuit breakers and contactors to protection and motor control equipment.

Reduction of greenhouse gases is a priority in all manufacturing programmes, including high efficiency motors and variable speed drives, advanced industrial automation technology to control and optimise power grids and industrial processes, as well as substations and transformers which minimise losses.

ABB is a leading supplier of industrial robots, modular manufacturing systems and service. ABB has installed more than 160 000 robots worldwide. The robotics business centre in Johannesburg supplies industrial robots, robot software, peripheral equipment, modular manufacturing cells and service for tasks such as welding and packaging.

ABB’s factories comply with the highest international standards in quality, health and safety and environmental management. At Alrode, a flagship manufacturing facility, the site has OSHAS 18001 certification as well as international listings for quality (ISO 9001) and environmental management (ISO 14001) listings. The company’s other manufacturing sites have achieved OSHAS 18001 certification.

Service comprises an important part of ABB’s overall customer offering, including asset management, total motor management and remote services, leading to a high measure of customer satisfaction. The effective application of information and communication technologies is instrumental in the process of remote service, and the company has pioneered remote service in many applications.

ABB South Africa has invested heavily in local engineering skills. The company’s engineering capabilities in its power business for utilities and industry include substations, HVDC, FACTS, power station plant instrumentation and control, and MV switchgear. In its automation business ABB’s engineering capabilities include integrated solutions for control, motors, drives, power electronics, plant optimisation and industry-specific application knowledge. Industries served include oil and gas, mining, metals and minerals, electricity, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pulp and paper, marine and turbocharging.

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ABB South Africa’s switchgear operation offers state-of-the-art

medium voltage switchgear products – from circuit breakers and

contactors to protection and motor control equipment.

ABB’s motor factory at Alrode, Johannesburg, manufactures large

AC machines for the local and export market.

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Power and Automation Technologies

Powering South Africa’s progress

ABB’s business has a very clear focus: our products, systems, solutions and services are designed to strengthen power grid reliability, increase energy effiency and impove industrial productivity.

We provide our utility and industry customers with high-efficiency, energy-saving products and systems which allow them to get the most from their grids and factories.

Our power technology offerings serve industrial and commercial customers, as well as electric, gas and water utilities, with a broad range of products, services and solutions for power transmission and distribution.

The portfolio includes transformers, switchgear, breakers, capacitors and cables, as well as high- and medium-voltage applications, many of which are also sold through external channel partners like distributors, system integrators, contractors and original equipment manufacturers.

Utilities such as Eskom draw on ABB technologies and engineering competence, while larger metropolitan electricity distributors require equipment for the upgrading and expansion of existing networks with accelerated investments

to cater for growing local industrial, commercial and residential demands.

Highlights from our partnership with Eskom include providing flexible AC Transmission Systems, which will result in significant cost savings both in investment and maintenance, as well as control systems upgrades which will help improve safety and power plant efficiency. ABB is proud of the company’s engagement with the refurbishment of the Arnot power station and control and instrumentation for Tutuka and Matla.

Our automation technology offerings serve the automotive, building, chemicals, consumer, manufacturing, marine, metals, minerals, pulp and paper, petroleum, transportation, turbocharging and utility industries. Key technologies include control, drives, enterprise software, instrumentation, low-voltage products, motors, robots and turbochargers. These offerings are supported by field maintenance and asset management services, and are sold both directly and through channel partners.

For the mining industry, winding gear equipment has been installed to support new shafts for future expansion. Impala Platinum in Rustenburg, North West, is one such example among many. Expansions in process industries such as oil and gas, pulp and paper, mining and cement continue to rely on best practice technologies from ABB. Flagship projects include, among others, the Columbus Stainless Steel Hot mill, the Hillside Smelter, Sappi Ngodwana Kraft Mill and Mondi Paper’s expansion project.

We are strong in project management, with a comprehensive offering including project management and design, through to construction, installation, commissioning and customer training.

ABB customers operate diverse and sophisticated businesses – from discrete manufacturers like automakers, to process producers making pulp and paper, and utilities generating or delivering electrical power. Whatever their business, our customers need the most reliable power and automation systems and solutions available. Quality is their competitive edge, and our goal is to deliver the products, services and systems that help them keep that edge.

ABB’s power and automation technologies help industries improve

productivity, reliability and save energy.

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Our people

Success begins with people

ABB South Africa recognises the contribution that its employees make to the competitive advantage of its business. The South African operation employs more than 1500 people in its operations throughout the country. As a global leader in power and automation techologies, the company attracts talented people in many specialisms from electrical engineers and functional specialists such as in finance, information technology, human resources and sales and marketing to leaders in general management.

This high performance organisation is supported by professional training initiatives, rewards and recognition, culture programmes and personal leadership development. The ABB team has grown a management culture of initiative and empowerment. Because of ABB’s multicultural approach, diversity is nurtured and celebrated guided by the company’s values of responsibility, respect and determination.

ABB has been recognized for its best leadership and practices with an award made by the Corporate Research Foundation, an independent business research organization. This accolade placed ABB amongst such well-known brands such as SAB Miller, Anglo American and Sasol. Individuals and teams were identified for demonstrating excellence in a uniquely challenging competitive environment.

ABB continues to grow its leadership capability and experience to provide the strategic vision that the company requires in its highly competitive market. A formal performance management system has been introduced,

putting structures in place for succession planning and employment equity. New management appointments undergo mentorship; second-tier management is appointed from within and groomed for future leadership; and all employees are encouraged to develop their full potential.

The company identifies engineering talent at an early stage and guides employees to ensure that they have the requisite skills and relevant technical career paths. Recognising the challenges of skills shortages, ABB has placed much emphasis on acquiring and developing its engineering skills. The company’s pool of engineering skills has increased dramatically in recent years; there are now more than 250 permanent engineers, with many young engineers in training.

ABB works hard to raise standards in the company in general and employees are trained in a diversity of areas such as personal leadership, corporate governance, health and safety and Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET), where employees from disavantaged backgrounds are enthusiastic about discovering and reaching their true potential. ABB South Africa has introduced a management development programme (MDP).

In support of the Government’s growth initiative (ASGISA), the company has also extended its training to unemployed graduates and has employed several candidates after the completion of their training.

In-house technical training includes programmes through the company’s training centre located in Sunninghill, Johannesburg, where employees and customers complete product application courses and specialist modules in service and maintenance by ABB experts.

ABB believes that it is important to identify and nurture its next generation of leadership earlier in their careers. Effective talent management starts with retaining the talent that ABB already has and to this end a talent management function actively supports and engages with employees.

Its competency in attracting and retaining good people provides significant competitive advantage in today’s global talent market. ABB has a world-class team in South Africa and is continuing to build on its strengths as it grows local talent to meet the many opportunities ahead.

Ultimately, ABB’s people are driven by its customers’ needs, meeting the challenge of developing innovative technologies and creating market-specific products and services year after year.

ABB offers opportunities to develop skills.

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ABB in Southern Africa

Contributing to growth and development

Africa’s urban population is expected to increase to more than 500 million in the next 10 years, according to World Bank estimates. As developing countries accelerate electricity infrastructure, ABB has stepped up its engagement with governments, utilities and industry across the sub-Saharan Africa region.

ABB, with business established in many countries in the region, is acutely aware of the lack of electrical infrastructure. It has rapidly deployed engineering talent to install energy-efficient technologies in countries where new projects are under way.

Wherever possible, local nationals are contracted to maintain the projects for the duration of their life cycle, fulfilling a commitment to developing people in the region. In the past few years, ABB’s order books in sub-Saharan Africa have increased substantially. With the focus on project service in the supply chain, this performance is set to grow further.

Reliable supplies of electricity are an essential ingredient of economic growth. In Southern Africa, ABB has established its footprint and offices in important countries such as Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which are emerging from years of political upheaval. The availability of reliable quality power will support economic development in the central region and create job opportunities.

ABB has partnered the Namibia national power utility (Nampower) to connect two parts of the country’s power grid and to strengthen electricity networks in Southern Africa. The priority was to link the Caprivi region to the power network in

central Namibia. This $180 million project will also interconnect the electricity networks of Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, DRC and Mozambique to create an alternative route for power import/exports to and from neighbouring countries.

The link will use ABB’s innovative and environmentally-friendly HVDC light system, a high voltage direct current transmission technology that will stabilise the two networks and increase grid reliability in the region. The Caprivi Link Interconnector will enable the establishment of power trading in the expansive region of Southern Africa. It will allow a more efficient use of power resources in the region, including renewable energy.

In the mining sector, ABB won a R230 million order from Vale in Mozambique for complete electrification and automation solutions to maximise productivity, monitor energy use and minimise energy consumption at a new coal mine. The new mine is one of Vale’s major investments in Africa and will be built at Moatize, in the Tete province of Mozambique. When completed, it will have a nominal capacity of 11 million tons per year: 8,5 million tons of metallurgical coal and 2,5 million of thermal coal.

ABB goes about its business in Southern Africa with characteristic innovation through its world-class power and automation technologies. It does so with respect towards the local authorities, responsibility towards local communities and determination to make a difference in the economies of the countries where it conducts business through use of local expertise and global technologies.

ABB’s engineering capability extends to infrastructure projects

throughout the Southern African region.

Reliable supplies of electricity are an essential ingredient of economic

growth in Southern Africa.

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Energy-efficiency

High demand for energy solutions

Businesses and governments have strong incentives to use energy more efficiently. The surging price of oil in recent years and increasing electricity prices are raising input costs.

Rising standards of living in developing countries and the creation of global markets is also exposing companies to more competition and raising pressure on them to increase productivity and lower costs.

In addition, concern about global warming and quality of life has prompted governments around the world to clamp down on pollution, making businesses in many countries pay a penalty for their emissions of carbon dioxide.

At ABB, we engineer performance and energy savings into every product. Whether we’re helping a factory run more productively or equipping a power plant with state-of-the-art control systems and electrical equipment, our goal is to increase efficiency and energy savings and at the same time reduce costs.

Even the movement of energy itself can be made more efficient. High-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology, invented by ABB more than 50 years ago, transports electricity over long distances using fewer cables and with much lower electricity losses than conventional alternating current technology.

HVDC also makes it possible to link one power grid to another safely and cost effectively. HVDC is also boosting the development of wind power by compensating for the power fluctuations caused by generating energy from wind.

ABB engineers can now build ultra high-voltage links that will make it viable to produce electricity in remote regions

of China, India, Brazil and Africa where vast hydropower resources remain untapped. These energy “superhighways” will efficiently transmit electricity to the urban and industrial areas where it is needed.

There is a great deal ABB can do to help customers avoid wasting energy and reduce energy consumption. For example, we have delivered more than one million energy-efficient AC drives in the past dozen years, most of them still in active service and controlling the speed and torque of AC or DC motors in pumps, fans, compressors, conveyors and mixers.

ABB’s total installed base of AC drives alone is estimated to save 96 million megawatt hours of energy per year (the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants) while increasing productivity and reducing CO2 emissions by 80 million tons annually – about the same as a country the size of Finland or Austria, with a population of five to eight million people.

ABB’s direct torque control (DTC) AC drives ensure electric motors use no more electricity than they require, saving energy in a huge range of industrial applications, as well as water utilities, in buildings and on board ships.

In the commercial buildings and high income residential homes markets, ABB’s building automation systems assist in introducing energy efficiency gains. Our systems automate control of light switches; heating, ventilation and cooling; security systems; and even microwave ovens and music centres.

ABB also engineers control systems that help power plants operate more efficiently, as well as factories in industries ranging from pulp and paper to cement to pharmaceuticals. They regulate the equipment in plants and factories to ensure it runs at optimum speed, produces consistent high quality and can forecast maintenance as needed. Energy savings can be multiplied by combining control systems, high efficiency motors and variable speed drives.

ABB’s strong performance in South Africa partly reflects its ability to meet the demand for energy efficiency solutions from utility and industrial customers. Demand for automation technology products such as electric motor and drives has increased with upgrades and expansion in industrial plants and commercial buildings.

ABB research and development includes investment into new

technologies for renewable energy sources.

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Looking forward

Making a difference

ABB’s performance today, tomorrow and beyond, is firmly based on customer satisfaction and its conduct as a corporate citizen is guided by a strong commitment to sustainable business practices.

Supporting the company’s growth for the future is its portfolio of leading power products and systems, automation products, process automation and robotics.

Rising demand for expansion of electricity infrastructure in developing countries and upgrading exisiting power systems in developed countries will lead to new investments in transmission and distribution.

South Africa, part of this trend, is expanding its electricity capacity and its roll-out of power infrastructure, which will continue well into the future.

ABB in South Africa will continue to play a significant role in transferring global technologies to the region -- to increase electricity infrastructure and bring about new efficiencies in customers’ operations.

Energy efficiency, grid reliability, industrial productivity and talent management will remain key focus areas for the company.

Improved and interconnected electricity transmission through ABB’s HVDC light technology will help in the delivery of more efficient power, decreasing losses due to reduced resistance in grids and contribute to increased energy security.

Gains in end-use energy efficiency improvements through ABB technologies stand to enable large potential reductions in electricity demand, and consequent C02 mitigation, particularly in factories, commerical buildings and residential homes.

Increased industrial productivity and lower operating costs, using ABB’s innovative technologies, will continue to be important for industrial competitiveness in both developed and developing markets.

A large measure of ABB’s success is based on research and development with the company investing more than a billion US dollars annually in R&D. Research teams around the world continue to work on new technologies that enable customers to innovate their processes for increased productivity and lower environmental impact.

Attracting and retaining engineering talent will also play a significant role in the company’s future success. With global competition for technical skills, ABB has prioritised talent management. ABB believes that its commitment to sustainable business practices and its business principles will help to attract and retain high calibre employees.

Sustainable business practices from ensuring the health and safety of its employees to its environmental actions to mitigate climate change and engage with local communities will continue to underpin ABB’s operations in the country.

In 2009 more than 1 000 employees will move to ABB’s new head office, manufacturing and logistics centre in Longmeadow, Johannesburg, an investment that highlights the company’s commitment to and confidence in the future of its business in South Africa.

ABB means to make a difference in the country by providing leading technologies and operating through sustainable business practices to fulfill its vision of ensuring power and productivity for a better world.

ABB’s new head office, manufacturing and logistics centre in Longmeadow, Johannesburg, represents the company’s commitment to and

confidence in the future of its business in South Africa.

Contact us

ABB South Africa

2 Lake RoadLongmeadow Business ParkModderfontein, 1609Tel: +27 (0) 860ABB123 (0860222123) e-mail: info@za.abb.com

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Private Bag X10004Edenvale, 1610

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