FLORENCE, ITALY (July 31, 2003) --- Motor Oil Hellas Corinth Refineries S.A. has awarded GE Oil & Gas a contract of more than 7.45 million euros to supply compressors, additional equipment and services for an oil refinery expansion in Corinth, Greece. Motor Oil Hellas Corinth Refineries S.A. is one of the largest Greek companies with business activities in the petroleum refining industry.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA (July 31, 2003) --- GE Power Systems announced today that it has signed two long-term service contracts with Exelon Corporation for 25 Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) at four power plants in Massachusetts and Texas.
Under the terms of the contract, GE Power Systems' KVB-Enertec team will provide comprehensive maintenance of all CEMS and Data Acquisition and Handling Systems (DAHS) hardware as well as provide 24-hour-a-day software support for the Exelon facilities.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 2003--According to a recent back-to-school survey conducted by the National Retail Federation, the average consumer expects to spend $206.24 on clothing this year.
The GE Profile(TM) Harmony Clothes Care System, the first washer that communicates electronically to the dryer, is designed to help families protect their clothing investment by taking the guesswork out of doing the laundry.
Clothes Care 101
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July 30, 2003 -- EVENDALE, Ohio--The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has certified the GE90-115B, the world's most powerful jet engine, at an unprecedented 115,000 pounds of thrust. The certification marks the end of a 20-month certification program for the engine, which is scheduled to enter airline service in n 2004.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA (July 30, 2003) --- Australian telecommunications operator Telstra chose GE Network Solutions' Smallworld Network Inventory™ portfolio of products for its upgraded network planning and engineering system. In a multi-million dollar contract, Telstra will upgrade its incumbent Cable Plant Records (CPR) system to use the Physical Network Inventory product as a platform to plan, design, construct and manage its wireline network.
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FLORENCE, ITALY (July 28, 2003) --- GE Oil & Gas and Aker Kvaerner-Kvaerner Oilfield Products (KOP) have signed a new agreement for the continued development and commercialization of innovative, subsea compression technology designed to reduce costs of deepwater oil and gas field exploitation.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2003--As part of GE Medical Protective's annual Day of Caring, more than 100 volunteers from MedPro performed a series of Project Safeguard(SM) safety retrofits at four Fort Wayne daycare centers. Those centers are Children's Cottage (2820 Reed Street), TLC (2041 Reed Road), Lamb Ministries (14621 Amstutz Road) and Matthew's House (2305 Goshen Road).
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FLORENCE, ITALY (July 24, 2003) --- GE Oil & Gas has shipped a 56-megawatt steam turbine-generator for use in a waste-to-energy (WTE) project located at the municipal waste incineration plant of Bilbao, Spain.
The WTE project consists of a combined-cycle system which includes the GE steam turbine and a GE LM6000PD gas turbine, plus an incinerator. Steam to power the steam turbine will be produced by recovering heat from the gas turbine exhaust, and by burning refuse. The waste plant incinerates half of the household garbage of the Bizkaia region of Spain.
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PLAINVILLE, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 2003--GE Industrial Systems, a $6 billion unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today it has acquired Saferex Oy, which configures electronic security systems in Finland for security guard services, locksmiths, security contractors and wholesalers of electrical goods.
The Helinski, Finland-based company is privately held. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.