Founded in 1988 via the merger of Sweden’s ASEA (est.1883) and Switzerland’s BBC Brown Boveri (est.1891), ABB inherited over a century’s electrical engineering know-how and evolved into a leading Swiss-Swedish multinational headquartered in Zurich. After global mergers and business restructuring across the 1990s–2010s, it divested traditional grid business in 2020 to focus on high-value electrification, automation, motion and robotics sectors. Its products and digital ABB Ability solutions are widely deployed in power utilities, petrochemical, mining, automotive manufacturing, new energy, marine shipping, data center and intelligent building industries, operating across more than 100 countries to advance industrial digitalization and energy-efficient sustainable development worldwide.