×

GE.com has been updated to serve our three go-forward companies.

Please visit these standalone sites for more information

GE Aerospace | GE Vernova | GE HealthCare 

News and insights from Europe

header-image
Medical Imaging

A Passion Play: How Medical Imaging Helped Italian Conservators Resurrect A Long-Lost Painting Of Christ

Margaret Steinhafel
December 17, 2019

“We need patients to be very still for imaging exams. It shouldn’t be a problem with this one,” radiologist Enzo Angeli joked last year as an unusual specimen was wheeled through the doors of his department. Angeli is head of diagnostics imaging at Humanitas Gavazzeni, a hospital in Bergamo, Italy, and his visitor exhibited a condition that, under normal circumstances, might raise a few red flags. Namely, the patient hadn’t moved in nearly 80 years.

header-image
Electricity

A High-Wire Act: What It Takes To Bring More Wind And Solar Power To Cities

Tomas Kellner
November 24, 2019
Here’s a bit of old news: The world wants more renewable power. The tricky work of feeding it into our homes, schools and offices doesn't often make the headlines — but figuring it out is key to changing the energy mix.
header-image
additive manufacturing

Prost! In Time For Octoberfest, This Old German Beer Town Is Using 3D-Printed Parts To Brew Up A Storm

October 22, 2019
The beautiful Bavarian town of Bamberg is home to nine breweries, and plenty of beer cellar legends. Take the story of Bamberg’s famous smoke beer, which supposedly was invented by accident when the smoke from a brewery fire billowed through a pile of malt. Rather than disposing of the smoky grain, the thrifty brewer produced an aromatic amber nectar that turned out to be unexpectedly popular in the town’s beer halls.
header-image
Renewables

Team Spirit: What It Takes To Build A Factory That Makes The World’s Longest Wind Turbine Blade

Tomas Kellner
September 19, 2019

Following the D-Day invasion, few prizes were as valuable to the advancing Allies as Cherbourg, a large French deep-water port located just northwest of the Utah and Omaha landing beaches in Normandy. Commissioned by France’s last king, Louis XVI, championed by Napoleon and occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II, the port was key to opening a direct shipping route for supplies from the U.S. The Germans garrisoned there knew it well — and put up a fierce fight.

header-image
Wind Power

Fresh Air: Turkish Turbine Blade Factory Invigorates Historic Town

Brendan Coffey
September 13, 2019
Growing up in Bergama, a town of 200,000 people in the western hills of Turkey, history is all around you. Some 2,400 years ago, when the place was known as Pergamum, Alexander the Great swept the city up on his conquests, gifting to Cleopatra its legendary library. Later, when the Romans took over, its enlightened past led Pliny the Elder to call it “the most famous and magnificent city of the Asia Minor.” Bergama’s bounty of historical sites has been drawing in throngs of tourists for years.
header-image
Aerospace

A Flight Of Fancy: This New York-Paris Jet Route Is Plush And Fast. It’s Also Ultra-efficient

Brendan Coffey
July 31, 2019

Speed and comfort are high on the list of business travelers, which is why France’s La Compagnie is operating a business-class-only daily flight between Newark Liberty Airport and Orly, two airports close to the business hubs of New York and Paris.

header-image
Aerospace

Mad Props: This Digital Tech Makes Flying A Turboprop As Simple As Riding A Scooter

July 22, 2019
When Audrey Hepburn went careening with Gregory Peck on a scooter through the cobbled streets of Rome in “Roman Holiday,” the Vespa she drove was simple enough that she could just jump on, twist the throttle and get to her destination — even if her execution was slightly inelegant for a princess.
header-image
Renewables

The Cypress Branches Out: Large New Winds Farms In Turkey And Poland Order GE Turbines

Sam Worley
July 16, 2019
Last week, the Turkish renewable-energy operator Borusan EnBW Enerji announced an order for 27 Cypress wind turbines — GE Renewable Energy’s largest land-based wind turbine. The first one set down roots in Holland earlier this year, and the wind turbine “platform” continues to spread its canopy.
Press Release

Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica and GE partnering to help ensure reliable power for 20% of Romania through $120 million USD nuclear plant service agreement

June 27, 2019
  • SNN’s Cernavoda site is the only nuclear power plant in Romania, and delivers 1,400MW of CO2-free power
  • Through an eight-year agreement, GE Steam Power will provide full maintenance and services on Cernavoda’s two steam turbines and generators
  • In each year of operation, Cernavoda helps Romania reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 10 million tons

(BADEN, SWITZERLAND) June 27, 2019— Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica (SNN) has selected GE Steam Power to continue providing full maintenance services on tw

business unit
header-image
Paris Air Show

Find Me If You Can: The Great Scavenger Hunt For GE Technology At The Paris Air Show

Tomas Kellner
June 26, 2019
On Sept. 1, 1930, a red Breguet 19 Super Bidon biplane took off from Le Bourget, Paris’ then-main airport, and landed in aviation history 37 hours and 12 minutes later at New York’s Curtiss Field. Unlike Charles Lindbergh, who flew nonstop east from New York to Le Bourget in 1927, the pilots Dieudonné Costes and Maurice Bellonte powered through the prevailing headwinds over the Atlantic and completed the more difficult westbound leg between the two cities for the first time.
Subscribe to Europe