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Also known as Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget

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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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ASEA” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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