ABB has closed the first trimester with a profit clearly of 564 million dollars (+4%)



Helvetic group ABB has closed the first trimester of this year with a profit clearly of 564 million dollars, in increase of +4% regarding 544 million dollars in the first three months of 2014. The revenues are piled to 8,56 billion dollars, down of the -10% (volume of transactions turn out in increase of +3% taking into consideration the effect of acquisitions and dismissioni). The operating result has been of 859 million dollars regarding 855 million dollars in the first trimester last year.

In the first three months of the 2015 ABB it has confiscated new orders for 10,4 billion dollars, analogous figure to that of the correspondent period of 2014 and that it represents an increment of +15% if is included the effect of acquisitions and dismissioni. Al 31 last March the value of the pocketbook orders of the group was pairs to 25,5 billion dollars (- 5% regarding on March 31, 2014; +10% to pairs perimeter of consolidation).

Regarding Italy, ABB has announced to have archived item first trimester 2015 with orders pairs to 637 million euros and a turnover of 604 million euros, in increase respective of +14% and +5% on the same period last year. "Online with the results of end 2014 - the managing director of ABB Spa has commented, Mario Corsi - we open 2015 with a tidy one and a turnover in increase and with a high level of attention is on the Italian market, where the orders have grown of 13%, than on the international markets. The excellence of our Italian ingegneristiche resources - it has explained Run - has played a strategic role in the acquisition, by the group, of an important order of beyond 160 million dollars from Eskom, the utility South African national electrical worker, for the supply of systems of control, destined software and instrumentation to headquarters to coal from 4.800 megawatt of Kusile. The team of engineers highly specialized of our unit of Genoa will be to the guide of the realization of this system". Moreover - it has continued the managing director of ABB Spa - "we continue to strongly aim at the innovation as confirmation our participation, as official sponsor Automation and Robotics, to EXPO Milan 2015, where we will show solutions robotizzate in the Future Food District that represent the role of ABB and the automation in the entire alimentary row in terms of flexibility, competitiveness, safety and productivity".