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[[A Breath of Fresh Air: GE Using Cyclopentane in Refrigerators]]
[[Paul Surowiec, General Manager, Refrigeration] GE as a company is really focused on]
[trying to solve some of the world's toughest environmental problems and challenges]
[through its ecomagination initiative. ]
[And Appliances is really stepping up]
[by being the first full-line refrigerator manufacturer]
[to convert our foam-blowing process from R134 to cyclopentane.]
[By converting this facility's foam-blowing agents to cyclopentane, ]
[we significantly reduced that facility's greenhouse gas emissions. ]
[Our future plans for cyclopentane are very exciting, ]
[and they are actually tied to the announcement that we made at the end of 2010]
[of the investment in the U.S. to create centers of excellence for refrigerators. ]
[And our game plan will be to implement cyclopentane ]
[as we transition into these new facilities. ]
[GE Appliances--we're going above and beyond.]
[We're not only looking at just the manufacturing processes,]
[but we're also taking a look at the impact at the end-of-life cycle of a particular product]
[and what that means to the environment--]
[that when the product is done with its useful life, ]
