ABB recently inaugurated its new ABB Xiamen Hub in the city's Torch Hi-Tech Industrial Park. The new site integrates the full value chain of ABB's activities, including R&D, engineering, manufacturing, sales and service, as well as supply chain management and corporate functions. Constructed and equipped using the latest environmentally sound materials and systems, including ABB's record-breaking fast-charging stations for electric vehicles, the site sets new standards in sustainability.
"The Xiamen Hub is ABB's largest and one of our most advanced manufacturing sites, and it demonstrates the potential of Industry 4.0 on our own premises. It is designed to provide state-of-the-art solutions and services for our customers in China as well as enterprises active in China's Belt-and-Road Initiative ," said Ulrich Spiesshofer, CEO of ABB. "By bringing all of our activities together in one central hub, we will be ideally positioned to support China's reform agenda by helping Xiamen and the surrounding region build up leading positions in advanced industries."
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