ABB Unit signs multi-year agreement with Birmingham Steel.NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 1995--ABB Inc. announced today that one of its units has a multi-year contract with Birmingham Steel to provide electrical control system products and millwide performance consultation. Productivity Partners(TM) goes beyond the traditional product transaction. It breaks new ground by setting up a continuing collaboration dedicated to improvements in the customer's productivity. In a joint statement, the two companies said they believe the program is the first of its kind in the metals industry and that it establishes a precedent for future relationships between companies and suppliers. Under the terms of the agreement, the total value of which was not disclosed, Birmingham Steel agrees to purchase exclusively from ABB n. 1. Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, Noun 1. ABB - an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s Industrial Systems Inc., Metals Systems Division, all of the steel company's requirements for process control systems for the melt shop, casters casters the small rubber wheels on surgical trolleys, patient stretchers, mobile equipment. conductive casters the casters are impregnated with carbon to facilitate the dispersal of static electricity from equipment. , reheat Re`heat´ v. t. 1. To heat again. 2. To revive; to cheer; to cherish. Verb 1. reheat - heat again; "Please reheat the food from last night" furnace and profile mills. This includes, but is not limited to, variable speed drives, motors and other equipment as well as related engineering and commissioning services. ABB will, in addition, serve as a process performance consultant for Birmingham's existing operations and new American Steel & Wire bar and rod mill. Birmingham Steel (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BIR BIR British Institute of Radiology BIR Bureau of Internal Revenue BIR Bureau of International Recycling BIR Baculovirus IAP Repeat BIR Biomedical Imaging Resource BIR Bureau of Intelligence and Research (US State Department) ) currently operates facilities in nine U.S. locations. Its sales in fiscal 1994 were $703 million. ABB Industrial Systems, New Berlin, Wis adv. 1. Certainly; really; indeed. v. t. 1. To think; to suppose; to imagine; - used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis. ., provides automation and drives solutions to a wide range of industries. ABB (Asea Brown Boveri) Inc., with headquarters in Norwalk, provides products and services for power generation, transmission and distribution; industrial processes and transportation. The company and its subsidiaries had revenues in 1994 of $5.6 billion. CONTACT: Karen Armour 203/750-2217(office) 203/655-9461(home |
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