GE's Desalination, Evaporative and Salt Purification Technology to Produce Ultra-Pure Salt for use at a Chlorine Refinery
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) is to design and construct a reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant, which will provide 70,000 m3/day of fresh water. In a first for South Africa, the plant will recover ultra-pure salt from the concentrated brine stream for the production of chlorine, caustic soda, and hydrochloric acid at the refinery.
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Dubai, UAE -- May 29, 2007 : GE Sensing is on schedule to unveil its first dedicated calibration, repair and training centre in the Middle East, when its new 370m² service centre opens its doors in November 2007.The new facility will serve all Gulf countries outside Saudi Arabia and is a further demonstration of GE's commitment to on-going investment in the region.
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DUBAI, UAE -- May 29, 2007 -- GE Energy today announced that Joe Anis has been appointed Region Executive for the Middle East. Anis, a 10-year GE veteran, had been leading GE Energy's Power Generation sales activities for the Middle East and Africa.
"In this role Joe will be responsible for driving GE Energy's growth and execution in the region across the entire GE Energy portfolio," said James Suciu, President of Sales for GE Energy. "Under his leadership, the Power Generation business has seen strong growth in the region."
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*MEA growth to focus on people, product, process and technology compliance
Dubai, UAE; May 29, 2007: Led by a strengthening of the regional infrastructure, industrial and healthcare businesses, GE expects an average annual growth rate of 20 per cent through to 2010. The roadmap to growth in MEA will be underscored by effective compliances between the people, products, processes and technology.
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CHICAGO -- GE Antares today announced it closed a transaction as administrative agent for a $55 million senior secured credit facility in the refinancing of E&B Giftware LLC, a portfolio company of Milestone Partners. GE Capital Markets, Inc. and Cratos Capital Management, LLC served as co-lead arrangers.
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North West Upgrading to Help Develop Region's Economic Potential
FLORENCE, ITALY - May 29, 2007 :- GE Oil & Gas has been selected as a supplier of choice for a new heavy oil upgrader plant northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada that will play a key role in exploiting the full economic potential of Alberta's vast oil sands.
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May 29, 2007 -- BATESVILLE, Mississippi -- General Electric Company (GE) will break ground this summer on a new jet engine component factory near Batesville in northwest Mississippi.
GE Aviation, a GE division and world-leading producer of jet engines, is creating a 200,000 square-foot facility to specialize in advanced composite engine components. Groundbreaking is planned in August; the plant is expected to become operational by early 2009.
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HOUSTON, TEXAS - May 29, 2007 :- The two largest private power stations in Russia will feature six GE Energy LM6000-PD Sprint® aeroderivative gas turbines, each rated at 46 megawatts. The additional power at both stations will help reduce the heat and power deficits in developing Moscow suburbs and will allow new construction to resume in the area.