Mark Land has joined ABB’s highly successful sales team for medium voltage drives. He will focus on developing new business opportunities across all industrial segments. Land brings many years of variable speed drive systems sales experience to this new role.
ABB’s sales of medium voltage drives have grown rapidly in recent years, with a five-fold rise in orders from 2005 to 2006. During 2007, sales have continued to grow well ahead of the general market growth rate. This increase has been based mainly on a large number of orders from chemical, oil and gas customers. The recruitment of Land aims to expand sales into other industrial sectors.
“The secret behind our success is that ABB has a very comprehensive range of drives – our medium voltage range goes from 315 kW to 72 MW, or even higher on request,” says Andy Alexander, sales manager for medium voltage drives at ABB.
“Within the ABB Group we manufacture all the other components required for the complete medium voltage drive system, such as transformers, switchgear and motors. Where other providers have to buy in system components from third party suppliers, we can source everything from within ABB, and take responsibility for the whole medium voltage drive system.”
“I look forward to working for ABB. The company has some very good products and a high reputation in the industry. In particular, it will be very interesting to apply my drives systems knowledge to medium voltage applications,” Land comments his appointment.
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