Last year ABB has recorded an increment of +3% of the result clearly and a decrease of the -3% of the new orders



In 2013 Helvetic group ABB it has recorded a profit clearly of 2,78 billion dollars on revenues record for 41,85 billion dollars, with increments respective of +3.1% and +6.4% on the year precedence. The operating result is piled to 4,39 billion dollars (+8.1%) and the EBITDA operating has reached the quota record of 6,07 billion dollars (+9.4%). Last year the Swiss group has confiscated new orders for a total of 38,90 billion dollars (- 3.3%) and the value of the orderbook at the end of the 2013 has been attested to 26,05 billion dollars, with a contraction of the -11,1% regarding 29,30 billion dollars on December 31, 2012.

In the solo last trimester of the 2013 ABB has totaled a profit clearly of 525 million dollars, down of the -13,1% on the correspondent period of the year precedence. The revenues are increased of +3.2% to 11,37 billion dollars. The operating result is piled to 823 million dollars (- 4.6%) and the EBITDA operating to 1,42 billion dollars (+3.3%).

The managing director of ABB, Ulrich Spiesshofer, has emphasized that in the 2013 group he has achieved remarkable results graces mainly to the range wide of producing and the diffused presence in the various world-wide areas that have allowed to mitigate the effects of a which variegated economic situation and to compensate the smaller performances of the division Power Systems with the improvements of the results in the other fields of activity of the group.

For that it concerns to the single Italy, in 2013 branch ABB Italy has totaled revenues for 2,11 billion euros, with a bending of -7.8% regarding 2,29 billion euros in the year precedence, and new orders for 2,11 billion euros, (- 7.2%). ABB Italy has specified that the profit has turned out substantially stable and positive and has turned out in increase the percentage of the export on the revenues, than has been arranged to 63%.

"Although a 2013 characterized from a context of market not certainly favorable - Matteo Marini has commented, than from 1°th November he is to the guide of ABB in Italy and the Mediterranean region - we are successful to maintain a position of substantial stability. To this it has contributed the strong attitude to the export of ABB Italy that has afforded us to balance the domestic front with lively a thrust towards the markets foreign countries testified from a steady increase of the quota export. While we remain focused on our strategy of increase - it has added Marine - we continue to aim at the innovation and the technology with increasing investments in research & development in the course of the 2013 pairs to 2.5% of the turnover. For ABB Italy 2013 have been a year record in terms of deposited patents: they have been 37 regarding the average of 28 of last the five years". "In a context in which the enterprises they invest on the optimization and the valorization of own productive assets - it has moreover evidenced Marine - our activities of service are attested to 13% of the tidy one, with an appreciable increment of 2% regarding the year precedence to confirmation of a focalization on this business in our Country that will support the turned out attended ones of increase for next the two years".

ABB has confirmed the importance of the presence of the group in Italy, testified from the recent investments of the company in the Country that have carried in 2013 to the acquisition of Power One (inverter fotovoltaici) and to the finalizzazione of the passage to ABB of RGM (auxiliary converters for traction). It play hooky has remembered that ABB is also collecting yields of the acquisition of Thomas & Betts (produced of lowland tension) "from which - it has specified - we expect interesting opportunities also for the Italian market".