ABB is the world’s largest supplier of high voltage products, with an active customer base in more than 100 countries. Nearly half of all high voltage switchgear projects are delivered by ABB.
Complete portfolio
ABB has a complete portfolio of high voltage products – live and dead tank circuit breakers, current and voltage transformers, surge arresters, and high voltage capacitors – for gas insulated and air insulated switchgear bays, in HVAC or HVDC systems, and at all voltage levels up to 800 kV.
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Seamless online ordering
Customers have the option to use ABB’s e-business system (accessible via
www.abb.com) to obtain price, documentation and delivery times on many high voltage products and order it online. The system is seamless. It reduces response and delivery times, and enables customers to configure their own variants of standard products.
Focused factories
All ABB high voltage switchgear is manufactured in-house in focused factories to ensure quality and secure delivery times. The factory for live tank breakers is in Ludvika in Sweden, with additional manufacturing resources located in selected markets like Canada, China, India and Russia.
Modularized production
Each high voltage product is designed as a series of modules. This allows the use of high quality and high volume components, and a high degree of automation in production. Lead times are shorter and quality higher in a modularized process.
Modules within modules
The same concept is also used for switchgear bays where larger product modules – circuit breakers, current transformers, voltage transformers, surge arresters – form a configurable substation.
One-stop source
Ludvika in Sweden is the site of ABB’s focused factories for live tank breakers, current transformers, voltage transformers, surge arresters and capacitors. An ABB High Power Laboratory and High Voltage Laboratory are also located there, as is the ABB HVDC Center and focused factories for transformers and reactors.