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Complete ABB the purchase of the field of the members of power for railway vehicles of Italian RGM
Frei (ABB Italy): it is another acquisition that will allow us to create an Italian team for the railway business
September 11, 2012
Group ABB has completed the acquisition of the field of the members of power for railway vehicles of Italian company RGM Spa ( of the 30 July 2012). Draft - Barbara Frei has declared, country manager of ABB Italy - of “another acquisition in Italy that, thanks to the synergies that derive some, will allow us to create an Italian team for the railway business, that it will acquire world-wide valence. A new acknowledgment of the specialized ingegneristiche competences of ABB Italy that, already today, allow them to appear with at the market total competitiveness”.
ABB has remembered that RGM, that has own headquarters to Genoa, is a lot appreciated in Italy like reliable supplier of auxiliary converters for metropolitan, tramway, railway convoys and for locomotives and that the Swiss group intends to integrate the lines of producing acquired in the division Discreet Automation and Motion. “The customers - Remo Luetolf has explained, in charge of the business unit Power Electronics and Medium Voltage Drives of ABB, in which RGM Polycontrol will be integrated - will have approached produced high-quality of RGM Polycontrol through the powerful net of sale and support ABB. Moreover only contacting a company, ABB, they will have a pocketbook on hand produced very more wide one. ABB will increase to the investments in RGM field R&D, accelerating the development of new technologies from RGM Polycontrol”.
“We are happy - it has commented the owner and managing director of RGM, Giuseppe Guerra - than team RGM Polycontrol has found a new house in ABB. With the resources of ABB, team RGM Polycontrol own offer will be able to grow and to widen ulteriorly”.
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