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(04/12/2014)
ABB did not leave in 1999; it just changed its strategy. It stopped making trains, but it has filled the core parts of former competitors" rolling stock, and all sorts of infrastructure for that equipment, with power supplies, which it was always good at. With the philosophy "ABB inside" it exudes inner strength and has been able to supply hundreds of transformers manufactured in Zaragoza and Córdoba to any place in the world.
Luis Thomas, the head of ABB’s business in Spain for the railway world, reinforces the point made by Carlos Marcos. "For a century we have built train units and locomotives. Now we don’t. But today, thousands of units, locomotives and rail infrastructure that nobody identifies with our brand have made a leap forward in efficiency because they have ABB equipment inside that makes them better. They are always included in the traction package; transformers, converters, alternators, generators. In short, anything that allows the train and its infrastructure support to receive electricity and convert it into power, into the sap that turns it into a transport system".
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