Photographers - both professional and amateur - are invited to exercise their imagination and talents to portray one or more of ABB three main business themes, focusing on how the company’s products, systems, solutions and services
- Improve the reliability of power grids
- Raise industrial productivity
- Increase energy efficiency
ABB’s products, systems, solutions and services improve the reliability of power grids supplying electricity to homes and offices, schools and hospitals, factories and showrooms; they raise the efficiency and productivity of utility, manufacturing and industrial customers at their installations and factories; and they are create energy savings, lowering environmental impact in the communities where ABB operates.
Every day, ABB manufactures and ships hundreds of thousands of products, from tiny low-voltage switches and drives to huge transformers weighing more than 1,000 tons.
The competition has three categories: Power grid reliability, Increased industrial productivity, and Energy savings. Winning entries in each category will receive $500 and the overall winners in each category will receive $1,000. Photographers’ work will be fully credited.
Participants are allowed one entry each, consisting of up to three images. Entrants must be 18 years or over as of April 1, 2005.
The winning photographs will be used to communicate and promote ABB’s key business themes in printed materials, on ABB websites, and in the group’s media library. ABB will have unrestricted use of the images.
All entries must be received by Wednesday October 12, 2005. Winning entries will be announced during October 2005, and results will be published on the competition website.
ABB has run similar competitions in 1999, 2000 and 2004. Photographers were invited to interpret themes such as, “Life around ABB,” and “What is Knowledge?” and “ABB’s Business Principles.”