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ABB abre un centro de servicio de turbocompresores en la Zona Franca de BarcelonaABB opened a service center of turbochargers in the Franca area of Barcelona
April 9, 2010
The multinational Swiss
Asea brown boveri, abb, specialist in electrical technology and automation, has inaugurated its new service center of turbochargers in the Logistics Park of Zona Franca, Barcelona.
ABB has chosen to deploy this new workshop in the Zona Franca Logistics Park to appreciate the modern facilities of this business park, as well as its easy access to the port of Barcelona, one of the most important in Europe. Also has been taken into account its easy access to the rail network, which favors the approach to the major users and installers of turbochargers, such as shipping companies, shipyards and cogeneration plants.
Claire Carmona, European Director of the business of ABB turbochargers.
This new workshop has all the necessary equipment for the repair and maintenance of more than 180 turbochargers a year, both the stationary and the shipbuilding sector. ABB believes that the annual turnover of the new Centre will oscillate between the two to three million euros. The new facility has meant an investment of € 500,000 to ABB and is the fourth of these features of the Swiss multinational in Spain, next to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Algeciras, Madrid. The Centre of Barcelona is the latest to join a network of more than 115 centres ABB service of turbochargers located at strategic points around the world, to facilitate the repair and maintenance of turbochargers by reducing the cost and time of logistics. ABB operates in 100 countries and employs approximately 117,000 people.
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