ABB sees 需要・要求する 'normalising' in 2023 after 在庫／株 build-ups
Company sees no major 需要・要求する 後退s ahead
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推定する／予想するs 十分な year 歳入s to 増加する by 5%
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Says 需要・要求する 改善するd わずかに or stable in most areas
(Recasts 追加するing CEO comment, background)
By John Revill
ZURICH, Feb 2 (Reuters) -
スイスの 工学 company ABB 推定する／予想するs 需要・要求する for its 製品s to "normalise" during 2023, it said on Thursday, after 顧客s built up 在庫／株s and pre-ordered to 避ける 供給（する） chain disruptions and 構成要素 不足s last year.
The company, whose 製品s 範囲 from electric chargers for cars and buses to 産業の モーターs and 運動s, also 地位，任命するd fourth ４半期/4分の1 収入s of $1.13 billion, ahead of market 予測（する）s.
Its 株 were 示すd 0.9% higher in スイスの pre-market 貿易（する）.
"Looking into 2023, we 現在／一般に do not 心配する a major 始める，決める-支援する in 需要・要求する, although the high inflationary 環境 追加するs 不確定," said 大統領 Bjorn Rosengren in a 声明.
He said 類似の order growth would in the first half of the year be 影響する／感情d by "last year's very high order level coupled with a 正常化 of 顧客s' order pattern."
Still, ABB said it 推定する／予想するd a strong start to 2023 as it worked its way through a $19.9 billion order backlog.
During the first three months of 2023 ABB said it 推定する／予想するd 類似の 歳入 growth in the 二塁打-digit 百分率 範囲, and of more than 5% in the year as whole.
Comments from the company, whose 製品s are used in many factories, 輸送（する） and infrastructur e 事業／計画（する）s, are closely watched as a pointer to the health of the broader 全世界の economy.
産業の automation peer Rockwell Automation last month raised its 十分な year sales 指導／手引, 反映するing its results, order backlog and 改善するing 供給（する） chain 状況／情勢.
ABB's fourth ４半期/4分の1 収入s were 上げるd by a 伸び（る） from the sale of its remaining 火刑／賭ける in its 力／強力にする grids 商売／仕事 to Hitachi in December..
年４回の 歳入s rose 16% on a 類似の basis to $7.82 billion. The new order intake 増加するd 2%, compared with 16% in 2022 全体にわたる.
ABB said activity was 改善するing わずかに or stable in most 顧客 segments, barring 拒絶する／低下するs in 居住の construction and discrete 製造業の.
Orders were 増加するing from the electric 乗り物s 部門, while 需要・要求する was 強健な in the oil, gas, water and 力／強力にする 世代, and normalising in 消費者-関係のある 製品s like electronics. (報告（する）／憶測ing by John Revill; editing by John Stonestreet)
