More out of less - the need of environmentally effective products
All ABB does aims to fulfill our customers needs of new products that gives better performance with less energy consumption, less material consumption and less waste. Constant improvements in these areas are necessary to improve the standard of living for people all over the world and at the same time to protect the environment.
Much of ABB:s research and development concerns new technology which reduces the environmental influence, especially such which contributes to restrict CO2-emissions.
Every working day ABB produces almost one million products, from simple breakers to advanced industrial robots. All products affect extraction of primary energy and production, transmission, distribution and use of electricity.
Environmental efficiency influences the whole industrial process, from construction and selection of materials, through manufacturing, to handling of waste. The largest environmental influence, often 99% or more, arises through energy consumption when the product is being used. To continuously improve the efficiency in our products and by that give the community more useful results for every introduced energy unit is a primary target for ABB.
In about fifty years half of all electrical energy can be produced from renewable energy sources like biomass, solar energy and wind power. The European Union (EU) has a target that more than 20% of its electrical energy will be produced from these sources by 2010.
