	asea group aseay sees flat ings asea group the diversified industrial concern based in vasteras sweden said it expects ings after financial income and expense to be flat compared with when it ed billion swedish crowns or mln dlrs a company spokesman said results were boosted significantly by the booking of two large orders for nuclear power plants this gain he said will be balanced in by a return to profitability by asea s power transmission segment which had a loss of mln crowns or mln dlrs last year currency conversions were made at crowns to the dlr the spokesman said the company has built up a strong backlog of orders that will contribute to ings in and beyond at yearend asea s order backlog stood at billion crowns or billion dlrs up from billion or billion dlrs at the end of asea has operations in power generation and transmission transportation equipment pollution control and robotics total sales in were billion crowns or billion dlrs reuter 
