|Articles|December 1, 2017

Spectroscopy

  • Spectroscopy-12-01-2017
  • Volume 32
  • Issue 12

ABB Measurement & Analytics

Company Description

For more than 40 years, ABB's portfolios of high performance laboratory, at-line, and process FT-IR/FT-NIR analyzers have addressed a wide variety of applications. Our versatile spectrometers perform real-time analysis of the chemical composition and/or physical properties of a process sample stream. As part of its portfolio of products, ABB provides custom calibration modeling services, application support as well as turnkey solutions answering its customer analytical needs.

Chief Spectroscopic Techniques Supported

  • FT-IR

  • FT-NIR

  • Spectroradiometry and remote sensing

  • Dedicated team of engineers offering simple and dependable solutions with reliable instruments

  • Local point of contact for field service and technical support

Markets Served

  • Laboratory and academic

  • Life sciences

  • Chemicals

  • Oil & Gas

  • Power

  • Semiconductor

  • Original equipment manufacturer (OEM)

  • Space and Defense

Major Products/Services

ABB's advanced solutions combine analyzers, advanced process control, data management, and process and application knowledge to improve the operational performance, productivity, capacity, and safety of industrial processes for customers. For all laboratory or process needs, ABB can be your partner and single-source provider of simple, low-cost, high performance, general-purpose FT-IR and FT-NIR spectrometers. The company also markets analyzers for hydrogen and inclusion measurement in liquid aluminum.

Facility

Our new and unique high tech manufacturing facility located in Quebec City, Canada, employs more than 250 people, including R&D, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and administrative groups.

ABB's Measurement & Analytics business unit (www.abb.com/measurement) is among the world's leading manufacturers and suppliers of instrumentation and analyzers. With thousands of experts around the world and high-performance digital technology, ABB's team is dedicated to making measurement easy for its customers.

ABB is a pioneering technology leader in electrification products, robotics and motion, industrial automation and power grids, serving customers in utilities, industry, and transport and infrastructure globally. Continuing a more than 125-year history of innovation, ABB today is writing the future of industrial digitalization and driving the Energy and Fourth Industrial Revolutions. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 136,000 employees.

ABB Measurement & Analytics
3400, Rue Pierre-Ardouin
Quebec, (Quebec) G1P 0B2
Canada

TELEPHONE
(418) 877-2944

FAX
(418) 877-2834

E-MAILftir@ca.abb.com

WEB SITEwww.abb.com/analytical

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
250

YEAR FOUNDED
1973

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