ABB invests €100 million in global innovation and training campus
Eggelsberg, Austria, by 2020 ABB builds on the B&R success story on the first anniversary of the acquisition announcement One year after announcing its acquisition of B&R (Bernecker + Rainer Industrie-Elektronik [...] key driver of profitable growth. The company invests $1.4 billion in R&D annually, and has a team of around 30,000 R&D and application engineers. B&R has more than 1,000 employees working in R&D and application [...] ABB acquired B&R, then the largest independent provider of product- and software-based open-architecture solutions for machine and factory automation worldwide, in July 2017. Today, B&R is integrated