ABB wins five-year full service contract in U.S

ABB在美國贏得5年整套服務合同

Zurich, Switzerland, August 23, 2006 – ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, said today it has signed an agreement with Cooper Tire and Rubber Company to manage maintenance operations at its Albany, Georgia plant in the United States.

瑞士蘇黎世8月23日消息——領先的電力和自動化技術集團ABB今天表示與Cooper輪胎和橡膠公司簽署了一份協議，管理Cooper位于美國喬治亞州Albany工廠的維護操作。

The ABB Full Service agreement covers a five-year period, and is the first agreement of its type for ABB in the North American automotive industry. The new contract complements more than 125 ABB Full Service relationships with customers in the paper, metals, mining, chemicals, oil and gas, and telecommunications industries worldwide.

ABB的這一整套服務協議長達五年，而且是ABB在北美汽車工業第一次獲得此類協議。這份新合同填補了ABB在全球范圍內為造紙、金屬、采礦、化學、油氣和電訊等行業超過125個客戶提供的整套服務關系。

“The ABB Full Service concept helps turn maintenance departments into profit centers,” said Veli-Matti Reinikkala, head of ABB’s Process Automation division. “By bringing proven best practices to the full spectrum of plant maintenance activities, we add new value to our customers’ bottom line while they focus on their core business.”

ABB過程自動化部經理Veli-Matti Reinikkala表示：“ABB整套服務概念幫助將維護部門變成贏利中心。通過引進已經過最好的實踐檢驗的全范圍的工廠維護行動，我們為客戶的帳本底線增加了新的價值，同時，客戶則專注于他們的核心業務。”

“This service agreement is one of various strategic initiatives within Cooper Tire to improve manufacturing efficiency, product and customer mix, and market share,” said Scott Jamieson, Vice President of Manufacturing for Cooper Tire. “By entrusting plant maintenance operations to an established partner such as ABB, we can better focus on our core competence of manufacturing and marketing high-quality tires at competitive costs.”

Cooper 輪胎公司生產副總裁Scott Jamieson表示：“此服務協議是Cooper輪胎旨在提高生產效率、產品和客戶融合以及市場占有率的眾多戰略性始創之一。將工廠維護操作委托給一個已建立起來的合作伙伴如ABB，我們就可以更好地將核心技術專注于生產和銷售有競爭力價格的高質量輪胎。

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Under the terms of the agreement, ABB will assume some 100 maintenance employees and responsibility for all maintenance-related activities and equipment at the plant, and will manage the operations to contractually-agreed targets for plant performance. ABB Full Service agreements typically improve productivity and equipment availability while reducing maintenance costs for customers by up to 20 percent.

根據協議條款，ABB將為工廠的所有維護相關活動和設備承擔大約100個維護人員及責任，以及將管理運作，為工廠運營達到合同所規定的目標。ABB整套服務協議尤其提高生產力和設備使用率，同時，可以為客戶減少達20%的維護成本。

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company is a global company that specializes in the design, manufacture, marketing and sales of passenger car, light truck and medium truck tires with subsidiaries that specialize in motorcycle and racing tires, as well as tread rubber and related equipment for the retread industry. With headquarters in Findlay, Ohio, Cooper Tire has 59 manufacturing, sales, distribution, technical and design facilities within its family of companies located around the world. For more information, visit Cooper Tire's web site at: www.coopertire.com.

Cooper 輪胎和橡膠公司是一間專注于設計、生產、銷售客車、輕型卡車、中型卡車輪胎的跨國公司，其子公司則專注于摩托車和賽車輪胎，以及胎面膠和輪胎翻新行業的相關設備。總部位于俄亥俄州Findlay市的Cooper輪胎公司在全球范圍內擁有59間屬下的生產、銷售、分配、技術和設計工廠。欲知更多消息，請登錄www.coopertire.com 了解。

ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 107,000 people.

ABB集團是電力和自動化技術領域的全球領導廠商，致力于為工業和電力行業客戶提供解決方案，以幫助客戶提高生產效率，同時降低對環境的不良影響。ABB集團的業務遍布全球100多個國家，擁有大約107,000名雇員。

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