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LED Controls are a specialist distributor of electric motor controls, factory/building automation and safety products. We pride ourselves in providing technical and logistical solutions to our industrial customers.
Our highly trained team of technical support and logistic engineers are on hand to offer expert advice on product selection for your application, their in depth product and technical knowledge ensures they are able to source items quickly and efficiently, submit prompt and competitive quotations and solve your problems. Contact us with your requirements and we will find it for you, using our extensive knowledge and worldwide sourcing network. We can also install and commission your system.
We stock a comprehensive range of motor control gear, soft starters, variable speed drives, sensors, panel building hardware, process controls and safety products from the best manufacturers. Our logistic services include, same day delivery, consignment stock at your premises and control panel kitting. Enquiries and orders can be placed by telephone, fax, email or via our website. Normal delivery is next day. We hope you find our website helpful and easy to use. LED Controls use a total quality approach to all aspects of our business and aim to give total customer satisfaction. Please feel free to email your comments on the site and we will use it to improve our customer experience.
ABB: Everything you need to know about the world's leading engineering company
LED Controls stocks a wide range of factory automation products, from some of the world’s leading manufacturers. One of the most well-known names in the industry is ABB, a Swedish-Swiss company that dates back to 1883, and has since grown to be a global name in innovation.
The ABB we know today didn’t appear until 1988, but the history of the company goes all the way back to 1883. This was the year that Ludvig Fredholm established Elektriska Aktiebolaget in Stockholm, who specialised in the manufacture of electrical lighting and generators. Over the next decade, engineer Jonas Wenstrom invented the three-phase system for generators, transformers and motors, before Elektriska Aktiebolaget merged with Wenstroms & Granstroms Elektriska Kraftbolag in 1890. The new company was known as Allmanna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget, or ASEA for short.
Following the invention from Jonas Wenstrom in 1889, ASEA set about building the creation, with Sweden’s first three-phase transmission system being built by the newly merged company in 1893. The innovation didn’t stop there, with ASEA continuing to create groundbreaking designs throughout the 20
Other world firsts for ASEA included the world’s first production of synthetic diamonds in 1953, and the first HVDC transmission line installation in 1954, as well as the building of Sweden’s first ever nuclear power plant in 1972, and the launch of one of the first industrial robots in 1978. By 1986, the growth of ASEA had been huge. Nearly 100 years after the 1890 merger to become ASEA, the company now employed over 71,000 people with revenues of over $6.8 billion.
century again. While ASEA was starting to develop as a company, over in Baden, Switzerland were Charles E. L. Brown and Walter Boveri, who established Brown, Boveri & Cie in 1891. BBC became the first company in Switzerland to transmit high-voltage power, and went on to later supply Europe’s first large-scale combined heat and power plant in 1983.
With a focus on the production of power, BBC went through the 20
century, producing innovative new products. In 1901, they built Europe’s first steam turbine, following up with the first combustion gas turbine for generating electricity in 1939. 1994 saw BBC produce the first high-speed locomotive, while the company carried out the first data transmission at carrier frequency in 1953. In 1965, BBC built the first ever 110kV gas-insulated switchgear, also building the first gearless cement drive in the world in 1969, and the world’s most powerful transformer (1300MVA) in 1971. By 1986, BBC was employing over 97,000 people and generating more than $8.5 billion in revenue.
In 1988, Swedish company ASEA and Swiss company BBC merged to form ASEA Brown Boveri, known as ABB. With two corporation’s worth of innovation behind them, combining over 200 years’ worth of experience, ABB set about revolutionising the industry with their new group, based in Zurich headquarters with over 160,000 employees and $17 billion in revenue.
In 2002, ABB linked the AC networks of South Australia and Victoria with the world’s longest underground transmission.