A positive first quarter leads ABB to confirm its forecasts for the whole of 2025 even if the Swiss company - has CEO Morten Wierod said today - that "uncertainty has increased for the context in which in which companies operate. However - he specified - we plan to create additional value by actively managing our portfolio and separating our robotics activity." ABB has in fact, announced the decision to spin off its division that deals with robotics, an initiative that will be proposed at the 2026 Annual General Meeting, with the aim that the spun off asset is listed on the stock market at starting from the second quarter of next year. « ABB Robotics - explained Wierod - is a leader in its sector and the synergies commercial and technological activities between ABB Robotics' business and ABB's other divisions are limited, with characteristics of different demand and market".

The ABB Robotics division has about 7,000 employees and in 2024 reported revenue of $2.3 billion, or 7% ABB Group's turnover. If shareholders decide in favor of the spin-off project, the spin-off will be carried out through a distribution of shares whereby ABB Ltd. shareholders will receive shares in the company from quoted as dividends in kind, in proportion to their shareholding.

Starting from the first quarter of 2026, the Machine division Automation, which together with ABB Robotics currently constitutes the Robotics & Discrete Automation business area, will enter to be part of the Process Automation business area.

Meanwhile, the ABB group has closed the first quarter of 2025 with revenues of $7.93 billion, an increase of +1% over the same period last year, growth - he noted Wierod - which is slightly lower than expected. The profit amounted to €1.57 billion (+29%) and net profit to $1.12 billion (+23%).

In the first three months of this year, the value of new orders forfeited in the period by ABB increased by +3% rising to 9.21 billion is the value of the order backlog as at 31 March stood at $23.04 billion (+5%). Wierod has announced that the acquisition of orders has grown in three of the group's four main business areas, with the exception of of the Motion one, which recorded a drop compared to the record of 2024. ABB specified that in the transport and of infrastructure, the commercial environment was positive with regard to the maritime-port segment as well as as well as the railway sector, even if the latter recorded a Quarterly orders down compared to last year year that included significant orders.

Regarding ABB's exposure to the trade war triggered by US President Trump, Wierod confirmed that This has led to growing uncertainty: "We - pointed out - we focus on what we manage to control and act to defend our market position and our profitability. Our proven approach local-for-local - he specified - benefits us and in the United States We cover up to 75-80% of our sales with production with the additional support of some exemptions Tariff. In Europe and China we have achieved a presence even higher. The energy transition and Expansion is driving a growing demand for advanced electrification and we are progressively investing in the States United to support the expected development of the market for a long time term. We have announced investments of 120 million dollars at two of our production sites to expand local production of low-voltage electrification products. This is in addition to to the more than 500 million dollars of investments in the United States in the last three years".