last highlighted date: 2024-11-25

Highlights

  • ASEA swastika logo used from the late nineteenth century until 1933
  • In 1987, it announced a merger with the Swiss company Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) to form ABB.[1][3] The merge took effect on 1 January 1988.
  • After this merger, ABB acquired several companies, including the power transmission and distribution operations of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and the Combustion Engineering Group
  • 1960s – ASEA builds nine of 12 nuclear plants in Sweden.