In 2014 group ABB it has recorded an increment of +7% of the new orders



Last year the new orders obtained from Helvetic group ABB, than work in the field of the technologies for the energy and the automation, have totaled a value of 41,5 billion dollars, with an increment of +7% regarding 2013. The value of the pocketbook orders of the company on 31 December has been attested to 24,9 billion dollars, down of the -4,4% respect to beyond 26,0 billion dollars on December 31, 2013.

In the economic exercise the 2014 group has recorded a profit clearly of 2,6 billion dollars on revenues for 39,8 billion dollars, with contractions respective of the -7% and the -5% on the exercise precedence. The operating profit is piled to 4,2 billion dollars (- 5%).

In the solo fourth trimester last year, period in which ABB almost 9,4 billion dollars with a decrease of the -6% on the trimester October-December of 2013 have confiscated new orders in order, the group has recorded a profit clearly of 680 million dollars (+29%) and an operating profit of billions of dollars (+27%) on revenues for 10,3 billion dollars (- 9%).

"2014 - the managing director of ABB, Ulrich Spiesshofer has commented - have been a challenging year in which we have had to resolve the difficulties of the division Power Systems and the limited consistency of the pocketbook orders". "Through our initiatives of organic increase and the continuous attention to the investments in the innovation and the sales - it has emphasized - we have increased the orders more quickly regarding the market in a extremely volatil scene. This has carried to a consolidation of the pocketbook orders".

Last year ABB Italy, the branch Italian of the group, has recorded orders for 2,5 billion euros (+17% on a 2013) and turnover of 2,4 billion euros (+13%). Specifying that this given holds account of the recent acquisitions, ABB Italy it has explained that the profit has been substantially stable and positive, while has grown the percentage of the export on the revenues that arranged to 67% regarding 63% of 2013.

Mario Corsi, than from on 1° January has assumed the charge of managing director of ABB Spa and also the role of in charge of the composed area from others 17 Countries between which Balkan Greece, Turkey, Countries, Malta and Israel, he has emphasized that the company has closed "a very challenging year well and, at the same time, very satisfactory. In order to obtain the results that we announce today - it has added - we have been able to count on our strong position in the sections of the energy and the automation, on the contribution of the recent acquisitions so as on the operating excellence of our factories and on the vicinity at the market of our people. Between the other factors of success it goes cited our ability to effectively serve the international markets testified from an important increase of the quota export. Important orders, between which that in Tunisia in the field of oil & the gas for the realization of the treatment system gas of Nawara, they consolidate our presence ulteriorly abroad. Besides oil and the gas, between the pulling ahead fields of the 2014 the robotics is signaled, that it has recorded a real record of sales of industrial robots, energy efficiency, that it has marked an increment on ordered of 28% regarding the year the precedence, the section of the energy and the automation, is in the infrastructural contexts that in those of the industry and the utilities". Course has specified that also the business of the service, that represents 12% of the ordered one, with an increment of 5.4% regarding the year precedence, has given to a meaningful contribution to the year-end result.