ABB India Limited was incorporated on December 24, 1949 as 'Hindustan Electric Company Limited'. On September 24, 1965, the name of the company was changed to Hindustan Brown Boveri Limited. In the year 1989, Asea Limited was amalgamated with the company with effect from January 1, 1989 and the company changed their name to Asea Brown Boveri Limited with effect from October 13, 1989. Further, the name was changed to ABB Limited on April 16, 2003 and thereafter was changed to ABB India Limited on February 21, 2013.
ABB India Limited, is one of the world's leading engineering companies, which helps customers to use electrical power effectively and to increase industrial productivity. The Company has extensive installed base for manufacturing and a countrywide marketing and service presence. They have served utility and industry customers with complete range of engineering, products, solutions and services in areas like Automation and Power Technology.
The Company segments includes: power systems, which offers turnkey systems and services for transmission and distributions for power grid and power plants, instrumentation, control and balance of power plants; power products, which manufactures, engineers, supplies key components to transmit and distribute electricity, and also produces transformers, high and medium voltage switchgears, circuit breakers, capacitors, distribution relays; process automation, which provides integrated solutions and served oil and gas, power, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pulps and paper, metals and minerals, marine and turbo charging industries; automation products, which provides motors, variable speed drives, low voltage products, instrumentation and power electronics; Others consists of robotics systems.
In 1995, Flakt India Ltd was amalgamated with the company with effect from October 5, 1995.
During the year 1994-95, ABB Zurich and Daimler-Benz AG, Germany established a joint venture company, namely 'ABB Daimler-Benz Tr