28 November 2018
Technology Company of the Year
ABB
ABB has a long history and a rich heritage of technology innovation, with the firm and its forerunners, Asea and BBC, inventing and pioneering many power and automation technologies that dominate the energy industry, and then retaining technology and market leadership in many of these areas. The company has been involved in the development of subsea equipment and systems for three decades and has delivered variable-speed drive systems and transformers to some of the largest and most advanced offshore developments in the world. In a crucial move forward, the firm’s latest innovation takes the vision of an all-electric subsea processing facility one step closer to reality. Its “Subsea to marke
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