PEEBLES, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2006--General Electric Company's best-selling GEnx engine - with already more than 575 engines ordered for three new commercial aircraft - demonstrated 80,500 lbs. of takeoff thrust during ground testing today at GE's outdoor testing facility in Peebles, Ohio.
Ground testing on the GEnx engine began with idle runs on March 19, and then reached 80,500 lbs. of standard day sea-level takeoff thrust on March 21.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2006--Four GE businesses will display leading-edge materials, manufacturing technologies, and solutions for a wide range of pharmaceutical applications in GE's booth (#1809) at INTERPHEX 2006. GE Healthcare, GE Fanuc Automation, GE Advanced Materials, and GE Water & Process Technologies will join together to highlight solutions that address key challenges in the pharmaceutical manufacturing arena.
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2006--GE Healthcare Financial Services has arranged a $161 million senior secured credit facility for Primedex Health Systems, Inc. and its primary operating subsidiary, Radnet Management, Inc., a leading provider of outpatient diagnostic imaging services in California.
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2006--GE Security (NYSE:GE): New Compact Design Reduces Space, Floor-Loading Requirements While Improving Performance, Maintainability and Potentially Reducing Cost of Ownership
GE Security (NYSE:GE) today introduced its new EntryScan4, the latest evolution of its popular no-touch, whole-body trace detection walk-through portal. EntryScan4 brings enhanced flexibility and performance to GE's family of explosives detecting trace portals.
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2006--GE Security (NYSE:GE), the leader in Computed Tomography-based (CT) checked baggage screening for aviation in Europe, today unveiled a first-of-its-kind vision for transforming the traditional airport passenger security checkpoint. The "Checkpoint of the Future," presented in Europe for the first time, is expected to help make air travel safer, security less costly and the passenger experience faster at airport checkpoints.
PARIS -- (BUSINESS WIRE) - March 21, 2006 - GE Security (NYSE:GE), the leader in Computed Tomography-based (CT) checked baggage screening for aviation in Europe, today unveiled a first-of-its-kind vision for transforming the traditional airport passenger security checkpoint. The "Checkpoint of the Future," presented in Europe for the first time, is expected to help make air travel safer, security less costly and the passenger experience faster at airport checkpoints.
NEW YORK, STAMFORD, Conn. & LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2006--GE Consumer Finance, Dillard's and American Express today announced the launch of the new Dillard's American Express Card. The Cards carry the Dillard's and American Express logos, and are accepted at Dillard's and the millions of merchants who accept American Express worldwide.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. & ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2006--GE Fanuc Embedded Systems, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), and SBS Technologies(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:SBSE) announced today that GE Fanuc Embedded Systems has agreed to acquire SBS Technologies, a designer of open architecture embedded computer products that enable original equipment manufacturers to serve commercial, communication and government customers.
FLORENCE, ITALY - March 20, 2006 : -- Yara Sluiskil B.V. of the Netherlands will replace a gas turbine at its fertilizer plant in Sluiskil with an MS5002E (Frame 5-2E) gas turbine from GE's Oil & Gas business, marking the first project for this new GE technology.
Operating in a cogeneration mode with a waste heat recovery generator, the new machine will produce 30 megawatts of electrical power for the plant and 50 tons per hour of steam to be used for production processes. Yara Sluiskil B.V. produces 3.5 million tons of nitrogenous fertilizer per year.
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