With a focus on enabling a more sustainable and resource efficient future, global technology leader in electrification and automation ABB connects its engineering and digitalisation expertise to help industries run at high performance, while becoming more efficient, productive and sustainable.
The company calls this ‘engineered to outrun.’
With about 110 000 employees worldwide and operations in over 100 countries, ABB has grown from a pair of start-ups into a global technology leader, with a history that stretches back more than 140 years.
ABB South Africa local sales and marketing manager Ettienne Delport spoke with Engineering News & Mining Weekly at this year’s Electra Mining event, held in Johannesburg from 7 to 11 September 2026, about some of the challenges the company’s customers face today and how ABB is helping them improve performance.