ABB is a global leader in power and automation with more than 135000 employees across 100+ countries and having 40BUSD turnover. ABB’s mission is to provide clean and sustainable solutions in energy usage and with that goal ABB is driving technology advancements, product developments and service life extensions, all with the ulterior goal to achieve more output from lesser energy usage and thereby reducing carbon footprint, in its own way mitigating the escalating risks of global warming.
With rapid urbanisation in developing countries including Bangladesh and equally fast enhancement in lifestyle qualities and resultant energy consumption, ABB is a pioneer in offering Smart solutions. The components in an electrical system that ABB supplies are all embedded with artificial intelligence & logics, which can inturn be integrated with central systems to ensure most optimal operation and minimum energy consumption.
ABB’s solutions in Energy Efficiency across the broad spectrums of Motors, Controllers, UPS, Energy Management Systems, Switchgear, Transformer etc have the potential of reducing industrial electrical energy consumption by upto 40% in specific cases.
ABB organised a very well attended customer seminar on 14th February in a posh hotel of Dhaka wherein ABB launched its Type Tested prefabricated Low Voltage Switchgear type System Pro E which is now open for licensing by Bangladeshi integrators. The presentation covered all components that go into such switchgear like ACB, MCCB, DIN Rail Products, Contactors etc and ABB’s experts from factories of Italy, Germany, France, Sweden etc were presenting.
Among the 150+ guests were Mr Christoph Fuchs, Head of Political, Economic and Cultural Affairs / Counsellor, Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh and Ms Tazeen Chowdhury, Commercial Officer from Embassy of Sweden in Bangladesh apart from representatives from industry.
Mr Rajarshi Banerjee, Country Managing Director, ABB Bangladesh mentioned during the event that ABB is committed to the growth journey in Bangladesh by offering genuine products & services of worldclass quality in ensuring highest level of efficiency of the industry in Bangladesh. He specifically mentioned the immediate need for high quality and rugged products like the ones launched during the seminar to ensure that the risks of fires and blackouts are minimised. He emphasised that these are building blocks of a Smart City system that is the ultimate destination of all modern urban infrastructures.