OREANDA-NEWS. January 12, 2010. Michael Lindgren, the earlier technical director of the Swedish company Sekfab, was appointed director of the Maardu substations factory of ABB AS.

Sven Sommer, communications officer for ABB, told BNS that Lasse Kalliomaa, who earlier worked as director of the factory, would go to Finland and continue working for ABB.

Lindgren worked for ABB in the years 2000-2001, heading a substations factory in Sweden, the company said.

The Maardu factory, opened at the end of 2007, makes a wide assortment of substations in metal and concrete bodies. The main clients of the factory are Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Estonian power companies.