PEEBLES, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2006--General Electric Company's best-selling GEnx engine - with already more than 575 engines ordered for three new commercial aircraft - demonstrated 80,500 lbs. of takeoff thrust during ground testing today at GE's outdoor testing facility in Peebles, Ohio.
Ground testing on the GEnx engine began with idle runs on March 19, and then reached 80,500 lbs. of standard day sea-level takeoff thrust on March 21.
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2006--GE Security (NYSE:GE): New Compact Design Reduces Space, Floor-Loading Requirements While Improving Performance, Maintainability and Potentially Reducing Cost of Ownership
GE Security (NYSE:GE) today introduced its new EntryScan4, the latest evolution of its popular no-touch, whole-body trace detection walk-through portal. EntryScan4 brings enhanced flexibility and performance to GE's family of explosives detecting trace portals.
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2006--GE Security (NYSE:GE), the leader in Computed Tomography-based (CT) checked baggage screening for aviation in Europe, today unveiled a first-of-its-kind vision for transforming the traditional airport passenger security checkpoint. The "Checkpoint of the Future," presented in Europe for the first time, is expected to help make air travel safer, security less costly and the passenger experience faster at airport checkpoints.
PARIS -- (BUSINESS WIRE) - March 21, 2006 - GE Security (NYSE:GE), the leader in Computed Tomography-based (CT) checked baggage screening for aviation in Europe, today unveiled a first-of-its-kind vision for transforming the traditional airport passenger security checkpoint. The "Checkpoint of the Future," presented in Europe for the first time, is expected to help make air travel safer, security less costly and the passenger experience faster at airport checkpoints.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. & ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2006--GE Fanuc Embedded Systems, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), and SBS Technologies(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:SBSE) announced today that GE Fanuc Embedded Systems has agreed to acquire SBS Technologies, a designer of open architecture embedded computer products that enable original equipment manufacturers to serve commercial, communication and government customers.
KURIHAMA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2006--Global Nuclear Fuel-Japan Co. Ltd. (GNF-J), a company belonging to the Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) joint venture of GE, Toshiba and Hitachi, has been awarded a contract by Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. (Chubu) to provide Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel for the utility's Hamaoka nuclear power plant.
LYNN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2006--GE - Aviation has been awarded a $26.4 million contact modification by the United States Navy for the purchase of 60 T58 module kits, with an option for 60 more in FY2007, for Marine Corps H-46E helicopters.
The contract calls for 96 titanium nitride (TiN) coated airfoil kits for upgrades of modules previously delivered under the T58 Engine Reliability Improvement Program (ERIP), plus miscellaneous tooling. Work will be done in Lynn, Massachusetts, and is expected to be completed in November 2007.
JENBACH, Austria--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2006--Offering on-site power customers around the world a wider range of choices for power and cogeneration, GE Energy has introduced two additions to its Jenbacher "Type 4" engine series: the J412 GS and J416 GS models.
GE developed the J412 and J416 models to address a growing demand for higher efficiency engines in the output range of 800 kW to 1.2 megawatts (MW).
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TREVOSE, Pa. & OAKVILLE, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2006--GE Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and ZENON Environmental Inc. (TSX: ZEN and ZEN.NV.A; OTC: ZNEVF and ZNEAF), announced today that they have signed an agreement in connection with the acquisition by way of Plan of Arrangement of ZENON by GE in an all cash transaction for Cdn $24.00 per share, valuing the transaction at approximately Cdn $760 million, or US $656 million.
