ASEA
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Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (English translation: General Swedish Electrical Limited Company; Swedish abbreviation: ASEA) was a Swedish industrial company.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget
- Company.logo
- Asealogo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 200px
- Company.image
- Asea hq.jpg
- Company.image_size
- 200px
- Company.image_caption
- ASEA HQ in Västerås
- Company.native_name_lang
- Swedish
- Company.type
- Publicly traded aktiebolag
- Company.industry
- Electrical engineering
- Company.fate
- Merged with Brown Boveri to form ABB
- Company.successor
- ABB
- Company.hq_location_city
- Västerås, Västmanland
- Company.hq_location_country
- Sweden
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Asea hq.jpg
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- Commons category
- ASEA
- inception
- 1883-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1988-00-00
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Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (English translation: General Swedish Electrical Limited Company; Swedish abbreviation: ASEA) was a Swedish industrial company.
==History== thumb|100px|right|Western use of the swastika in the early 20th century|ASEA swastika logo used from the late 19th century until 1933 ASEA was founded in 1883 by Ludvig Fredholm in Västerås as a manufacturer of electrical light and generators. After merging with Wenström's & Granström's Electrical Power Company (Wenströms & Granströms Elektriska Kraftbolag) the name was changed to Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget, literally the "General Swedish Electrical Limited Company", or ASEA for short.