ABB India Limited announced that at the board meeting held on February 8, 2018, the company approved Mr. Frsnk Duggan has resigned as director and chairman of the board. And the company appointed Jean Christophe Deslarzes as non executive non independent director. Jean-Christophe Deslarzes has been Chief Human Resources Officer and member of the Executive Committee of ABS ltd. Switzerland since November 2013, based in Zurich. Jean-Christophe Deslarzes began his career in 1991 as a tax and legal consultant at Arthur Andersen in Geneva, Switzerland. From 1994 to 2010, he worked at Rio Tinto and its predecessor companies, Alean and Alu5uisse, in human resources and management roles in Europe and Canada, including as Senior Vice President Human Resources and member of the Executive Committee of Akan Group as well as President and CEO, Downstream Aluminium Businesses, Rio Tinto, based in Montreal. From 2010 to 2013 he served as Chief Human Resources and Organization Officer and member of the Executive Board at Carrefour Group, based in Paris. In April 2015, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Adecco Group.
ABB India Limited specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of industrial equipment. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows:
- automation systems (62.4%): power protection system and fluids measurement instruments and control, control system of the production process (especially for oil and gas, chemical and pharmaceutical, marine, mining and paper industries) and robotics equipment;
- products and transmission systems and power distribution (37.6%): transformers, power distribution products of medium voltage (circuit breakers, switches, fuses, sensors, etc.) and high voltage (capacitors, cables, switches, etc.). Besides, the group proposes turnkey installation services of transmission systems.
At the end of 2022, the group has 25 plants located in India.