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Montage of shots of downtown Greenville, South Carolina, in the evening. Both car and people traffic. Medium close shot: Richard Stanley in the Gas Turbines Test Laboratory. Title on bottom of screen reads: “Richard Stanley, Vice President and General Manager, Engineering, GE Energy” Montage of shots of people working on gas turbines in various stages of production on the manufacturing floor.
- Richard Stanley (voiceover):
- The Greenville area, actually, has the highest per capita number of engineers of anywhere in the United States. It’s one of the reasons why GE Engineering for Energy is located here in Greenville.
- The facility we’re in right now is the world’s largest gas turbine manufacturing facility, and it’s also the headquarters of GE Engineering for our energy business.
Shot of wind turbine heads loaded onto railcars ready to be shipped off site. Medium close shot: James Sutton in an office overlooking the manufacturing floor. Title on bottom of screen reads: “James Sutton, Plant Manager, GE Energy, Greenville” Montage of shots of turbine blades on the production line and people wearing safety gear working on parts.
- James Sutton (voiceover):
- Our Greenville site is one of the largest exporters in the state of South Carolina. Over 90 percent of our business that we did in 2008 and over 85 percent of the business we’re doing in 2009 will be exported to countries all over the world.
- So in order to serve that global market, we utilize a global supply chain. So any time you look at a gas turbine, you could be looking at one component is perhaps sourced and machined in China, another component may come from Brazil, other components may come from Eastern Europe.
Medium close shot: Richard Stanley. Overhead shots of the cross-section of a gas turbine that is being assembled. Shot of a completed wind turbine head being loaded into a “pod” for delivery. Shots of GE people inside the test laboratory, looking at multiple computer screens that are analyzing the performance of gas turbines being tested. Shots of an assembled gas turbine being loaded and transported, people working on parts on the manufacturing floor. Medium close shot: Richard Stanley. Shots of a completed gas turbine in operation. Fade to Black.
- Richard Stanley (voiceover):
- This year will be the largest investment in engineering and technology in our history of the GE Energy business, which goes back 100 years to the Thomas Edison days.
- It’s very important to push technology into new cleaner, environmentally sound technologies and do it fast. The need has never been greater for carbon dioxide separation, gasification technologies for the coal industry, higher efficiency gas turbines and lower cost materials too — so that we not only get better performance out of the machines that we design and build, but that they cost less and they’re more affordable for the country and the world.
- There’s not a better place to be than at GE Energy, and Greenville plays a huge role in that.
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