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ABB has completed the incorporation of RGM Polycontrol
the industrial base of the Helvetic group in Italy and in particular in the pole of Genoa
November 4, 2013
Strengthened
Strengthened
Helvetic group ABB has communicated to have completed the fusion for incorporation of RGM Polycontrol, branch of company of Italian RGM Spa with center to Genoa specialized in the systems of feeding auxiliary for railway vehicles. The Swiss group has remembered that RGM Polycontrol for a long time is appreciated in Italy for the planning and the production of converters for auxiliary services of edge for metropolitan vehicles, fleeting trolley cars, cars transport and locomotives and that its acquisition, happened to september 2012, interprets the ABB strategy coherently turns to strengthen own supplier important position for the constructors of trains and the railway operators.
"the fusion - it has emphasized Manrico Campinoti, LBU Manager Power Conversion of ABB Italy - opens us an opportunity world: the customers have now approached a pocketbook very more wide one than produced high-quality for which they can count all over the world on the support of the commercial net and Service ABB".
ABB has specified that in little more than a year, during which RGM Polycontrol has temporary conserved the old brand, the integration process is completed in every its aspect and today the new truth is part of the Product Group Transportation and its range of auxiliary converters will constitute a new line of producing in the within of the unit of business Power Discreet Conversion of the Division Automation & Motion.
the Swiss group has evidenced like the acquisition, among other things, ulteriorly strengthens the industrial base of ABB in Italy and in particular in the pole of Genoa and as integration of RGM Polycontrol in ABB meaningfully strengthens the potentialities of increase of the unit on the markets foreign countries: already in these months - the group has announced - the export quota appears in clean increase thanks to important orders like that recently acquired for a new train to high velocità.
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