On May 19, 2026, ABB announced its latest domestic layout plan, officially launching its new modern Nanjing campus project. This is a significant step in ABB's recent efforts to deepen its presence in the Chinese market and marks another upgrade in the brand's localization strategy in the drivetrain equipment sector. The new campus will serve as ABB's second largest drivetrain product manufacturing base in China, forming a north-south linkage and complementary support system with its existing Beijing base. This will allow ABB to continue to cultivate the domestic industrial drivetrain market and help various industries upgrade their manufacturing equipment towards higher efficiency, intelligence, and energy conservation.

Deepening its presence in the local market and maintaining confidence in long-term development.

China has always been a core market of great importance in ABB's global strategy. With a well-developed domestic industrial system, strong manufacturing demand, and ample long-term growth momentum, ABB continues to advance its localization production strategy to align with the development pace of the domestic market. Currently, 85% of the products sold in China are produced locally, enabling them to quickly adapt to the usage needs and project standards of domestic customers. This investment in the new Nanjing campus not only directly reflects ABB's confidence in China's real economy and its commitment to local development, but also precisely aligns with the overall development direction of improving industrial efficiency and transforming into intelligent manufacturing in China.

Located in the heart of the Yangtze River Delta, building a competitive locational advantage

The newly built Nanjing campus is situated in the core industrial area of the Yangtze River Delta, boasting a highly advantageous location. As a core cluster of domestic manufacturing, the Yangtze River Delta is home to a large number of high-end manufacturing, heavy industry, new energy, and automation companies, with mature industrial chains, convenient transportation and logistics, and a well-developed local supply chain system. Leveraging its unique geographical location, the new campus can quickly radiate to core industrial areas in East and South China, effectively shortening product delivery cycles, reducing logistics and communication costs, and providing localized services with convenient access and rapid response for surrounding customers, effectively addressing industry pain points such as slow procurement and after-sales response.

Comprehensive capacity upgrade, creating an intelligent industrial base

Compared to traditional production plants, the new ABB Nanjing campus achieves a comprehensive upgrade in production, R&D, testing, and services. The project will integrate existing scattered warehousing resources and centrally plan multiple highly automated transmission product production lines. Through intelligent production models, it will improve product precision, capacity efficiency, and supply stability, further strengthening the core competitiveness of products. Simultaneously, the park will be equipped with a professional R&D center, reliability testing platform, customer experience showroom, OEM business demonstration center, and customer training base, truly realizing a closed-loop service system from product R&D, intelligent production, performance testing, to customer experience and technical training.

North and South Dual Bases Collaborate for Comprehensive Lifecycle Services Once the Nanjing park is completed, it will form a two-way collaborative operation with ABB's Beijing production base, achieving complementary capacity, technology sharing, and service linkage, comprehensively ensuring supply stability for customers nationwide. Unlike a single production plant, the new park focuses on the entire process needs of customers, adhering to a green and energy-saving design concept. Relying on highly automated production capabilities, it can accurately meet the customized transmission equipment needs of various industries. From initial solution adaptation and product production and delivery to later on-site commissioning and maintenance support, a complete lifecycle service chain is established to help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency, continuously optimizing industrial energy efficiency.

Completed and operational in 2027, empowering manufacturing upgrades

According to the project plan, ABB's new modern Nanjing campus is expected to be completed and put into use in 2027. The new base will further address ABB's shortcomings in its production capacity layout in China, significantly enhance the localization of high-end drive products, and fully meet the high-efficiency drive needs of mainstream industrial sectors such as metallurgy, chemicals, power, intelligent manufacturing, and new energy. Leveraging its new production and R&D capabilities, ABB will continue to contribute to energy conservation and efficiency improvement in the domestic industrial sector, promoting the high-quality upgrading of traditional manufacturing towards intelligence and green development.

Regarding this investment in Nanjing, Tuomo Hoysniemi, Global President of ABB's Drives Business Unit, stated that this move is an important step for ABB in deepening its presence in the Chinese market. In the future, ABB will leverage its localized industrial advantages to continuously explore market potential and solidify its long-term development foundation. Wang Yu, Head of ABB's Drives Business in China, also mentioned that the new Nanjing campus integrates intelligent manufacturing and green development concepts, and will empower the transformation of domestic industries with more comprehensive full-chain services.

For a long time, ABB has always focused on customer needs and been deeply rooted in the Chinese market. The establishment of the new Nanjing industrial park is not only a key breakthrough in the brand's global expansion but also an important strategic move to align with domestic industrial development trends. In the future, ABB will continue to increase its investment in the Chinese market, leveraging its well-developed dual-base network in the north and south to provide more reliable products and solutions to its domestic customers through high-quality products, intelligent production capacity, and comprehensive services.

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