25 random facts
about your new
company
Getting acquainted with a company of GE’s scale and heritage will take some time. But for now, we hope you’ll take a few minutes to learn a few things about your new home.
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We’re really into wind. We’re the #1 manufacturer of wind turbines in the United States, with more than 10,000 wind turbines installed globally.
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In 2008, GE filed over 2,500 patents worldwide.
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Every day, GE Evolution locomotives save so much fuel, it’s like taking 64,000 cars off U.S. roads.
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Aircraft engines from GE and its partners carry 3.5 million commercial passengers every day.
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Hulu, the web video joint venture of NBC Universal and Fox, was named one of the top inventions of 2008 by Time magazine.
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We were founded by Thomas Edison, who once said: “I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give to others.”
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GE built the largest desalination plant in Africa, providing fresh water to as many as two million residents of Algiers.
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When Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic used a blend of conventional fuel with jet biofuel for the first time ever in-flight, GE was there. Our CF6 engine used a biofuel based on coconut and babassu oil.
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Just one GE Energy 1.5MW wind turbine can power the equivalent of 500 U.S. homes.
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GE Energy Financial Services invests in 30,000 miles of natural gas pipelines in North America.
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Every day, GE Healthcare technology helps doctors save nearly 3,000 lives.
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GE Security helps keep the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty safe.
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GE power generation equipment creates a quarter of the world’s electricity daily.
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Every day, NBC Universal entertains and informs more than 100 million people.
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GE water technologies purify enough water to satisfy the daily needs of 39 million people around the world.
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The American Renewal is our term for how GE Global Research is putting collective imagination to work for a better future, one idea at a time.
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Small enough to fit in a physician’s backpack, the GE MAC 400 is a compact electrocardiogram (ECG) device to be designed, developed and manufactured in India for India, giving more people in more areas access to better healthcare.
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GE’s state-of-the-art gas turbines will form the heart of the world’s largest integrated water and power plant in Marafiq, Saudi Arabia.
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Using garnet gemstones, GE engineers developed a High-Definition CT scanner, providing high-definition images at 100 times the speed of previous medical scanners — another big step forward in the early detection of cancer.
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GE’s new nano coatings, developed by studying the leaves of lotus plants, can repel water, which reduces ice on a wind turbine blade, or help parts of a gas turbine to reject grime, an important contribution to better efficiency.
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Using a process similar to that for printing newspapers, GE was the first to demonstrate “roll-to-roll” processed OLEDs, organic light-emitting diodes. Essentially flexible sheets of lighting, they are expected to save cost while boosting efficiency.
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GE Energy Financial Services holds equity investments in power projects with the capacity to produce 26 gigawatts — equivalent to the installed generating capacity of Thailand.
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In partnership with GE Money, non-profit microfinance institution FINCA is bringing financial services to more than 8,400 women in Jordan through their Banking on Women program.
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GE’s history of innovations on the World Wide Web began in 1985, when ge.com became the 20th registered domain.
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Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin’s character on “30 Rock,” skewers GE’s corporate culture all the time. And we actually enjoy it.