NISKAYUNA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE (NYSE: GE) today announced a $13 million research partnership with the Federal Transit Administration, Ballard Power Systems and A123 Systems to develop a lightweight, battery dominant zero emissions hybrid fuel cell bus. The research will be led by GE's Global Research Center in Niskayuna, where researchers can leverage a long history in hybrid vehicles and expertise in battery chemistry.
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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Commercial Finance has extended a five-year, non-recourse trade receivables factoring facility with a credit line of EUR 800m to KME Group S.p.A. GE will purchase and manage KME's receivables across Europe. The deal is GE's largest pan-European factoring transaction.
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ALLIANCE TO SERVE GLOBAL MINING MARKETS WITH COST SAVING, ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND WATER & PROCESS SOLUTIONS ALLIANCE JOINS GE ECOMAGINATION PORTFOLIO
For Immediate Release: (October 20, 2005) TREVOSE, PA and LAKEWOOD, CO --- GE Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric (NYSE:GE), and HW Process Technologies, Inc. (HWPT), a unit of the Harrison Western Companies, today announced a new strategic alliance aimed at providing proprietary, environmentally sound, process recovery, water reuse and wastewater solutions to serve the global mining market.
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STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Stamford Public School district has been awarded a $15.3 million, five-year grant from the GE Foundation's College Bound District Program, the district and the Company announced today. The grant, the largest non-government grant in the district's history, is designed to improve student achievement and increase college readiness through comprehensive school/business/community collaboration.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, GE announced education grants totaling $35 million in two public school districts: $20 million to Cincinnati, Ohio; and $15 million to Stamford, CT. Both are the largest non-governmental grants ever received by the districts. The grants are a part of GE's successful "College Bound" program, a five-year, $100 million investment to help increase the number of students who go on to college in targeted U.S. school districts.
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WAUKESHA, Wis. & RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) and Volcano Corporation (NASDAQ: VOLC) today announced the completion of the first commercial installation of Innova IVUS at PinnacleHealth Heart and Vascular Institute at Harrisburg Hospital in Harrisburg, PA.
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University's Proceeds to Help Fund Alumni Legacy Scholarship Program.
STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boston College, one of the nation's leading institutions of higher learning, has selected GE Money, the consumer lending unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), to provide an affinity credit card product to the university's alumni, graduate students, graduating seniors, faculty and staff.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Fanuc Automation, a unit of GE Industrial (NYSE: GE), today announced the completion of a sales and marketing agreement with SAP America, Inc., to jointly market GE Fanuc Production Management solutions and SAP® applications -- easing plant floor and enterprise integration to increase quality, drive productivity, and enable success in key business initiatives such as Lean Six Sigma, regulatory compliance and efficiency.
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WAUKESHA, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) is the world's largest provider of bone mineral densitometry (BMD) technology, which is used by physicians to aid in the detection and diagnose of Osteoporosis and other skeletal disorders.