News and insights from Europe
New GE research on 'cutting edge' businesses reveals high rates of growth, recruitment and export success
A new survey of high tech manufacturers, commissioned by GE, highlights a UK business sector that is forging ahead and strongly confident about prospects in 2011. However the 400 senior executives polled for the first GE High Tech Manufacturing Index also expressed concerns on other issues such as access to capital and raw materials.
Key highlights of the research include:
GE Sells 18 of Its 2.5-100 Wind Turbines to Valorem SAS and Ailenergie SA
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM---January 10, 2011---Located in one of France's strongest wind power areas, the Fère-Champenoise wind project will feature GE's (NYSE: GE) most advanced installed wind turbine technology. The project will help move the country closer to its goal to produce 23 percent of its domestic energy from wind by 2020.
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funds the joint research project 'New Technologies for hyperpolarised 13C metabolic imaging' of GE Global Research Munich, the TU Munich and RAPID Biomedical GmbH with 1.5 Mio. €. The project works on the optimisation of a new imaging modality -- 13C hyperpolarised metabolic MR -- so that it can be used for real time control of therapeutic response on a cellular level.
