In 2012 group ABB it has recorded a rise of 3.5% of the revenues and a decrease of 14.6% of the result clearly



The figures of the exercise anniversary 2012 of Helvetic group ABB show an light rise of the volume of transactions, a decrease of the results operating and clearly regarding the exercise precedence and a collection of new orders stable regarding 2011. The Swiss group has closed 2012 with revenues for 39,3 billion dollars, in increase of 3.5% on 2011, with operational an EBITDA of 5,5 billion dollars (- 7.6%) and with a profit clearly of 2,7 billion dollars (- 14.6%). Last year ABB has confiscated new total orders for 40,2 billion dollars (0%) and the value of the pocketbook orders at the end of the 2012 has been attested to 29,3 billion dollars regarding 27,5 billion dollars on December 31, 2011.

In the solo fourth trimester of the 2012 group has recorded a profit clearly of 604 million dollars on revenues for 11,0 billion dollars respect to a profit clearly of 830 million dollars on revenues for 10,6 billion dollars in the period October-December of the year precedence. Operational the EBITDA is piled to 1,4 billion dollars (- 12.4%). In the last trimester last year the new orders have been pairs to 10,5 billion dollars (+3.5%).

Commenting today such data, the managing director of the group ABB, Joe Hogan, it has manifested satisfaction for the results achieved last year from the company and has expressed confidence for the development of the activity of the group in the near future: "looking ahead - it has explained - all the main device drivers for our activity over the long term, as the increasing electric power consumption, the urbanization and industrialization in emerging markets, the increase of renewable energies and the necessity to increase the efficiency of the energy and the resources, remain intact. In the short term - it has specified Hogan - sussistono numerous unknown quantities about the rhythm of increase in Europe and the United States and on when a resumption in China happens. However - it has emphasized - over the last few years we have demonstrated our ability to compete with success and to obtain consisting revenues and profits in difficult moments, and are absolutely trusting of being able to continue to make it. This means that we will continue to meanwhile place attention to the costs assuring us to be able to grow ulteriorly when an improvement of the market happens".

Last year ABB Italy, the branch Italian of the Helvetic group, has totaled new orders for 2.278 million euros, value aligned to the level of 2011, and revenues for 2.286 million euros, in bending of 12% regarding the year precedence. Stable and positive - it has specified the society - the profit; in clean increase the percentage of export on the revenues - than has been arranged around 61%, oriented above all to the United States and the Countries of the Middle East and the Africa North. "2012 - it has found Barbara Frei, president and managing director of ABB Spa - have been a year in which we have realized turned out satisfactory, in the sign of continuity and stability. The economic context has introduced many challenges but, thanks to the focalization on the operating excellence of our factories and to the deep vocation to export ours and of ours important customers, we are successful to maintain the competitiveness solid and to serve with success the international markets. Fields that has hauled ours 2012 are be those of industry of process - before between all oil and the gas where we have acquired important store clerks -, railway (with projects the legacies to the modernization of the Italian infrastructural net), the naval one, energetic with acquired important store clerks in the area Middle East and Nord Africa and the automation, that it has characterized our business in cross-sectional way on all the markets (from the home automation until applications in the terziario, the manifacturing industry and the utilities). We continue to strongly engage - it has emphasized Frei - in strengthening our productive ability and in the innovation, with investments that in the 2012 have been advanced to 2% of the turnover in Italy. The technological innovation in the 2012 has been concentrated above all on the topic of the automation and energy efficiency, but we have worked also in the realization of producing and to systems in the within of the distribution in average and high voltage and to setting up of solutions of more and more integrated service".

Barbara Frei has remembered that, regarding investments in Italy, 2012 is be characterized from acquisition by group of society RGM Polycontrol, with center to Genoa, that is the greatest Italian producer than auxiliary converters that supply the electric power supply of edge to tramway and metropolitan convoys, to regional trains and inter-city let alone locomotives ( on 30 July and September 11 2012).