Retrofits and IT make a good year for ABB

Despite the troubles of the global newspaper industry, ABB did more business in 2009 than in previous years, the Switzerland-based controls specialist says. Global manager of the company’s Printing Centre of Excellence Christian Villiger says it is a tribute to the work of his entire organisation that they managed to increase order intake and extend their customer base. Villiger says ABB saw significant increases in press retrofit areas and IT solutions for the production workflow. "These have more than compensated for the slowdown in systems for new presses. This leaves ABB’s printing organisation in a very healthy state and ready to take on whatever challenges 2010 will throw at it.”