What is Asea?

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  • Misspelling of Asia — the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia
  • Misspelling of ASEAN — a political, economic, and cultural organization of countries located in Southeast Asia
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ASEA logo used prior to the merger with Brown Boveri


ASEA (Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget) was a Swedish industry company. It merged with the Swiss BBC Brown Boveri in 1988 to form Asea Brown Boveri. ASEA still exists, but only as a holding company owning 50% of ABB Group.

History

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ASEA H.Q. in Västerås
ASEA was founded 1883 by Ludvig Fredholm in Stockholm as manufacturer of electrical light and generators. By a merging with Wennström's & Granström's Electrical Power Company (Wenströms & Granströms Elektriska Kraftbolag) the name was change to Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget, literally the "General Swedish Electrical Limited Company", or a ASEA for short.
  • 1889 - the partner Jonas Wenström creates 3-phased generators, engines and transformers.
  • 1933 - The company removes a swastika from the logotype, due to the symbol's association with Nazi Germany.
  • 1953 - ASEA creates the first industrial diamonds.
  • 1954 - HVDC Gotland project, first static high-voltage DC system
  • 1960s - ASEA builds 9 of 12 nuclear plants in Sweden.
  • 1974 - Industrial robots are introduced by ASEA
  • 1987 - Acquires Finnish Oy Strömberg Ab
  • 1988 - Merges with BBC Brown Boveri

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ABB

Public (, NYSE:  ABB )
Founded 1988 through merger of ASEA of Sweden and Brown, Boveri & Cie of Switzerland
Headquarters Zürich, Switzerland

Key people Fred Kindle, CEO, President
Industry Power technology, Industrial Automation
Revenue $24.
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Asea (pronunciation: a-SEH-ah Greek: Ασέα, also Assea) is a village in Arcadia, Greece, in the middle of the southern Peloponnese peninsula. Asea is about 20 km from both Tripoli and Megalopoli, and 190 km from Athens.
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Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area (or 29.4% of its land area) and, with almost 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population.
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Hymn
The ASEAN Hymn

Seat of Secretariat
(and largest city)
Membership 10 Southeast Asian states
Leaders
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Motto
(Royal) "För Sverige - I tiden" 1
"For Sweden – With the Times" ²
Anthem
Du gamla, Du fria
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Motto
Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno (Latin) (traditional)[1]
"One for all, all for one"
Anthem
"Swiss Psalm"
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Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) was an electrotechnical company.

It was founded in Baden, Switzerland 1891 by Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown and Walter Boveri who worked at the . In 1970 BBC took over the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon. In 1988 it merged with ASEA to form ABB.
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ABB

Public (, NYSE:  ABB )
Founded 1988 through merger of ASEA of Sweden and Brown, Boveri & Cie of Switzerland
Headquarters Zürich, Switzerland

Key people Fred Kindle, CEO, President
Industry Power technology, Industrial Automation
Revenue $24.
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A holding company is a company that owns part, all, or a majority of other companies' outstanding stock. It usually refers to a company which does not produce goods or services itself, rather its only
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ABB

Public (, NYSE:  ABB )
Founded 1988 through merger of ASEA of Sweden and Brown, Boveri & Cie of Switzerland
Headquarters Zürich, Switzerland

Key people Fred Kindle, CEO, President
Industry Power technology, Industrial Automation
Revenue $24.
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City of Stockholm
Stockholms stad

Coat of arms
Location of Stockholm in northern Europe
Coordinates:
Country Sweden
Municipality
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This article deals with the basic mathematics and principles of three-phase electricity. For information on where, how and why three-phase is used, see three-phase electric power.

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Synthetic diamond, also called lab-created, manufactured, "lab-grown" or cultured diamond is a term used to describe diamond (the tetrahedral carbon allotrope) which has been produced by a technological process, as opposed to natural diamond, which is
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The HVDC Gotland, on the Swedish east coast was the first fully commercial static plant for high voltage direct current transmission in the world. The first HVDC Gotland link (Gotland 1) went into service in 1954.
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Stromberg or Oy Strömberg Ab, was a company founded by Gottfrid Strömberg in 1889 in Helsinki, Finland, and manufactured electromechanical products such as: generators, electric motors and small power plants.
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Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) was an electrotechnical company.

It was founded in Baden, Switzerland 1891 by Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown and Walter Boveri who worked at the . In 1970 BBC took over the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon. In 1988 it merged with ASEA to form ABB.
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Johannes Sigfrid Edström (November 21, 1870 – March 18, 1964) was a Swedish industrial and sports official.

Edström was born in the tiny village of Morlanda, on the island of Orust, Bohuslän.
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August Uno Lamm (May 22 1904 – June 1 1989) was a Swedish electrical engineer and inventor, sometimes called "The Father of High Voltage Direct Current" power transmission.
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ABB

Public (, NYSE:  ABB )
Founded 1988 through merger of ASEA of Sweden and Brown, Boveri & Cie of Switzerland
Headquarters Zürich, Switzerland

Key people Fred Kindle, CEO, President
Industry Power technology, Industrial Automation
Revenue $24.
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