Software Delivery

ABB Ltd
26 April 2001


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ABB DELIVERS US$15 MILLION SUPPLY CHAIN SOFTWARE SOLUTION TO LINK PAPER MILLS IN
AUSTRALIA AND UNITED STATES

Technology group says Industrial IT architecture key to major software delivery

Zurich, Switzerland, April 26, 2001 - ABB says today it is delivering US$ 15
million in manufacturing execution and supply chain management software to Visy
Industries, linking in real time the Australian pulp and paper company's
headquarters, its production lines and corporate offices throughout Australia
and the United States.

'This is one of the biggest software deliveries ever to a pulp and paper
company,' says Dinesh Paliwal, executive vice president and head of ABB's
process industries division. 'We have created a solution that makes this key
customer's ever-increasing amounts of information available across their entire
enterprise.'

The software delivery comes close on the heels of  US$ 50 million order for ABB
with Visy, of Melbourne, Australia. Paliwal says the earlier order, which
included the complete automation, electrification and enterprise asset
management services for Visy's new pulp and paper mill in Tumut, Australia,
allowed him and his team at ABB to realize the great potential for information
sharing across Visy's supply chain.

'Visy Industries' greenfield mill in Tumut will be the world's most automated
mill,' says Ned Colo, deputy CEO & Senior General Manager of Visy Industries.
'Using ABB's technology, both products and software, we can standardize IT for
our entire value chain, starting with customer orders, planning and
manufacturing, all the way through to execution, shipping and invoicing at each
of these locations.'

ABB says deliveries of components, systems and software for Visy mark an
important step toward leveraging the full potential of ABB's Industrial IT
concept. The company says Industrial IT, which links products, services,
solutions and real-time asset control and business information under a common
architecture for fast and easy deployment, helps customers increase
competitiveness in the networked world.

ABB (www.abb.com) serves manufacturing, process and consumer industries,
utilities, the oil and gas markets, with 160,000 employees in more than 100
countries.