Last year ABB has recorded a decrease of the economic results and an increase of the orders



In 2015 Helvetic group ABB, than work in the field of the technologies for the energy and the automation, it has recorded a profit clearly of 1,93 billion dollars on revenues for 35,48 billion dollars, with decreases respective of the -25% and the -11% on the year precedence. The operating profit is piled to 4,17 billion dollars (- 7%). Last year the Swiss group has confiscated new total orders for 36,43 billion dollars (+12%) and the value of the pocketbook on 31 December has been attested to 24,12 billion dollars (- 3%).

Commenting the results achieved from the company in 2015, the managing director Ulrich Spiesshofer has remembered that ABB has adopted important measures in order to perfect the attention turned to the customers and in order to improve the economic performances in the main segments of activity to the aim to contain the impact determined from the remarkable turbulences of the market. "Meanwhile - it has added Spiesshofer - we have simplified the organization, realized an improvement of the productivity and accelerated the reduction of our costs. This has determined an increase of the margins and the free cash-flow. The positive radical change of direction in the segment Power Systems - it has emphasized - demonstrates our abilities to participation and our attention turns to the creation of sustainable value. With ours solid financial situation and a oriented thinner organization and more at the market we are in good position in order to tackle to the total uncertainties with which we will continue to be confronted in 2016".

Last year the single ABB Italy, Italian division of the group, has obtained new orders for 2,36 billion euros, with a bending of the -5% on 2014, and a turnover of 2,44 billion euros (+3%). ABB Italy has specified that the percentage of the export on the revenues has been pairs to 67% confirming the data of the year precedence. "Archiviamo a year - Mario Corsi has commented, managing director of ABB Spa - with stable orders of base and great orders penalized from the negative conjunctural situation that interests the section of oil and the gas. The uncertainties of the market and the price of the oil in free fall are generating delays in the investments. To compensate the effect of field O&G they have contributed the investments in automation, the manifacturing industry and the world of infrastructures let alone in the within of the distribution electrical worker. The turnover turns out in increase and reflects a course that has marked entire 2015. The percentage of export on revenues (67%) the confirmation our solid presence on the international markets".

ABB Italy has remembered that in the course of the 2015 company advanced value to 34 million euros among other things has acquired two important contests for the automation of MOSE of Venice (), one of the more important Italian public works from according to post-war period. The system of distributed control object of the supply - it has explained the society - will collect coming signs gives beyond 50.000 devices and will second coordinate the operations of entire MOSE maneuvering the 78 floodgates the specific necessities.