The Jual Group launched its ABB energy distribution solution in Ghana at the Marriot Hotel in Accra on Tuesday.
The launch was attended by dignitaries from the construction industry as well as architects and members from the Ghana Association of Engineers.
The Jual group with its headquarters in Accra was incorporated in 2001, and since then it has been working with the KSB (Klein Schanzlin Becker) group, which is a German company and the world-leading manufacturer of pumps and Valves.
Mr Salil Sharma who is the Chanel Sales Director of ABB in East and West Africa regions noted that, ABB is in four divisions, namely Electrification, Automation, Robotics as well as Motion Business.
“ABB as group is worth about $32.9b, with over 174 nationalities working for us, with a global work force of 110,000 employees, and 140yrs of existence”, he said.
“With a workforce of 52,000 employees in the electrification division, this he said includes Sales and Marketing, Human Resource development, manufacturing, and Supply chain management”’.
With over two hundred and one factory locations in the world, which includes Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, China, Paris, Indonesia and above all India”, he said.
Safety has always been very key and important to us, as a company we make sure safety of our
Employees and clients are of utmost important to us and we go the extra mile to make sure safety measures are adhere to in our entire factory locations in the world, and above all you need to have integrity to work with us.
Electrification as part of ABB, simply means anything from 1kb to 33kb of products always come under Energy distribution solutions, he went further and said anything that entails low voltage panels, Conductors, starters, and UPS business, all come under smart power business.
Anything related to electricity management MCB, RCCB and others are all handled by ABB as we are also into smart circuit breakers, Switches, protection relays and others which handles low voltage. All this he said are robotically done with very minimum margin of error.
We are also into Smart Power business which is based in Italy with products such as breakers and Motor Starters as being key with over 110,000 employees.
We also have cable management, cable protection system, connectivity and others in our electrification sector.
He went further and advised contractors and investors to always buy from an ABB accredited and licensed source which we are selling to, this is to avoid buying inferior products and always buy from authentic and approved sources.
ABB, he said spent an amount of $1.4b in 2024 on research and development, this is to enable ABB to come out with products, and services, which will make clients and contractors, feel satisfied after buying any ABB products.
The Ghana Association of Engineers expressed its gratitude to ABB and reminded Engineers to be part of the licensing body, where the engineering council act 2011 mandates every practising person in our space must be licensed and regulated and monitored which makes safety and efficiency a hallmark, and to make engineers accountable.
The association also commended the Jual Group for their effort in making sure the production and assembling of control panels are done right here in Ghana.
