STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2005
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) and GE Consumer Finance (NYSE:GE) are launching two new credit cards on the Discover(R) Network -- one for business members of SAM'S CLUB and one for consumers. T
he new SAM'S CLUB(R) DISCOVER(R) will be available in all 552 SAM'S CLUB locations in April. Both cards offer members even more ways to save, and are issued by GE Consumer Finance.
Kuwait, March 15, 2005: In a ceremony attended by more than 400 people, which included representatives from the highest level of the Kuwaiti Government, GE Infrastructure's Water & Process Technologies business helped dedicate the world's largest membrane based wastewater filtration project and the company's first major water project in the Middle East.
March 15, 2005 -- GE Transportation's marine gas turbine business, at its Evendale, Ohio facility, manufactured all the LM aeroderivative gas turbines for the following projects. The LM gas turbine-generator sets were built and sold by GE Energy, headquartered in Houston, Texas.
To date, 22 LM2500+ and four LM2500 GE gas turbine-generator sets are in operation or slated for service on 17 cruise ships.
Royal Caribbean International
Propulsion system
Operational ships
Propulsion system
March 15, 2005 -- MIAMI, Fla. - GE announced that its fleet of 25 aeroderivative marine gas turbines has accumulated more than 320,000 hours operating aboard 16 cruise ships. GE remains the only gas turbine manufacturer to have its engines in service on cruise ships, the company reported today at the Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention.
FLORENCE, ITALY, March 15, 2005: -- GE Energy's oil and gas business and China Aviation Gas Turbine Company Ltd. (CAGT) have extended their cooperative agreement for small gas turbines in the industrial power generation sector.
The new long-term agreement adds license and supply agreements to the packaging agreement that GE and CAGT signed in 2002.
March 14, 2005 -- EVENDALE, Ohio - The F110-GE-132 engine, the latest generation of GE F110 engines powering F-16 fighters, is supporting the U.S. Air Force's (USAF) Product Support F-16D aircraft used for production line assistance and customer demonstration flights.
Originally developed for the unique United Arab Emirates F-16E/F, the F110-GE-132 (32,000 pounds of thrust) now provides a higher-thrust option for Block 50 F-16 aircraft - the most advanced configuration in the USAF inventory.
March 14, 2005 -- SHENZHEN, China - Shenzhen Airlines has signed a ten-year Maintenance Cost Per Hour (MCPH
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SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2005--GE Commercial Finance, Global Electronics Solutions (GES) has expanded its global infrastructure and asset management services, spurring more than a 50 percent volume increase in the second half of 2004. The addition of three Fortune 500 integrated device manufacturers to its customer portfolio has also brought on additional sales growth.
