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

ABB在美国赢得5年整套服务合同

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.

瑞士苏黎世8月23日消息——领先的电力和自动化技术集团ABB今天表示与Cooper轮胎和橡胶公司签署了一份协议，管理Cooper位于美国乔治亚州Albany工厂的维护操作。

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的这一整套服务协议长达五年，而且是ABB在北美汽车工业第一次获得此类协议。这份新合同填补了ABB在全球范围内为造纸、金属、采矿、化学、油气和电讯等行业超过125个客户提供的整套服务关系。

“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过程自动化部经理Veli-Matti Reinikkala表示：“ABB整套服务概念帮助将维护部门变成赢利中心。通过引进已经过最好的实践检验的全范围的工厂维护行动，我们为客户的帐本底线增加了新的价值，同时，客户则专注于他们的核心业务。”

“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 轮胎公司生产副总裁Scott Jamieson表示：“此服务协议是Cooper轮胎旨在提高生产效率、产品和客户融合以及市场占有率的众多战略性始创之一。将工厂维护操作委托给一个已建立起来的合作伙伴如ABB，我们就可以更好地将核心技术专注于生产和销售有竞争力价格的高质量轮胎。

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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.

根据协议条款，ABB将为工厂的所有维护相关活动和设备承担大约100个维护人员及责任，以及将管理运作，为工厂运营达到合同所规定的目标。ABB整套服务协议尤其提高生产力和设备使用率，同时，可以为客户减少达20%的维护成本。

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 轮胎和橡胶公司是一间专注于设计、生产、销售客车、轻型卡车、中型卡车轮胎的跨国公司，其子公司则专注于摩托车和赛车轮胎，以及胎面胶和轮胎翻新行业的相关设备。总部位于俄亥俄州Findlay市的Cooper轮胎公司在全球范围内拥有59间属下的生产、销售、分配、技术和设计工厂。欲知更多消息，请登录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集团是电力和自动化技术领域的全球领导厂商，致力于为工业和电力行业客户提供解决方案，以帮助客户提高生产效率，同时降低对环境的不良影响。ABB集团的业务遍布全球100多个国家，拥有大约107,000名雇员。

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