JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2005--GE Business Credit Services (BCS) has opened a Jacksonville chapter of the GE Elfun Society, a nationwide community service network comprised of over 52,000 GE employees and retirees. The new chapter was created to more closely align local volunteer projects already underway with GE's overall community service efforts. Employees from BCS in Jacksonville will coordinate and staff local community service activities.
BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2005--Between sky-high oil prices and sagging profits, finding a pleasant story in the U.S. aviation industry happens about as often as a flight taking off and landing on time these days. In fact, according to the Bureau of Transportation, delays and lost baggage both increased in 2004.
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ALGIERS, Algeria--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 2005--At a ceremony held in Algiers today, GE Infrastructure, Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), joined the Algerian Government, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Algerian Energy Company (AEC), in announcing plans to build Hamma Water Desalination SpA (Hamma) -- Africa's largest seawater desalination plant. Formed and funded by GE and AEC, the Hamma project is part of GE's ecomagination effort, which is aimed at building innovative solutions to tough global problems, like water scarcity.
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BUCHAREST, Romania--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2005--Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu today announced that GE will locate its next Business Services & Technology Solutions Center in Bucharest. It becomes GE's second such center in Europe. The Romanian facility will handle a variety of complex finance & accounting, supply chain management, IT, engineering and customer service processes for GE and other blue chip clients across Europe.
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NORTHUMBERLAND, ENGLAND, June 24, 2005: -- GE Energy's pipeline services operation has successfully launched its first SmartScan™ tool, a flexible inspection system designed to help the oil and gas industry overcome a longtime obstacle: the in-line corrosion inspection of "unpiggable" pipelines.
A pipeline is deemed unpiggable if conventional, in-line inspection tools ("smart pigs") are unable to inspect a given line due to valve restrictions, multiple pipeline diameters or too many sharp bends.