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Investor Conference

Investor Conference 2023: Take a Look at a Dozen of GE’s Biggest, Most Groundbreaking Technologies

GE Reports Staff
March 07, 2023

This Thursday, GE will hold its annual Investor Conference at GE Aerospace’s Customer Technical Education Center and nearby manufacturing facilities in Cincinnati and will feature keynote presentations from GE Chairman and CEO and GE Aerospace CEO Larry Culp, GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik, and leaders from both businesses.

Employees

‘It’s All About Purpose’: This Engineer Calls the Shots in GE’s Factory for Jet Engine Super Ceramics

Chris Noon
December 06, 2022
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Loren Finnerty manages more than 300 shop floor workers and engineers at GE Aerospace’s giant Asheville plant in North Carolina, where thousands of advanced composite components are produced every year for GE jet engines, such as the GE9X, as well as the

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Dubai Airshow

Shake It Off: GE’s Record-Breaking Jet Engine Is A Dust-Busting Powerhouse

Chris Noon
November 15, 2021

At the Dubai Airshow this week, one of the most anticipated sights will be the Boeing 777X, Boeing’s new plane powered by the GE9X, the most powerful jet engine in the world. But thrust is just one of the engine’s many attributes.

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beyond technology

'Twas The Upgrade Before Christmas: Santa’s Sleigh Gets A High-Tech Makeover

Maggie Sieger
Todd Alhart
December 18, 2019
Reindeer are noble and beautiful creatures but, as far as aviation technology goes, it’s time to face facts: They’re a bit outdated. Santa Claus still relies on flying ungulates to get around, while the rest of the world has moved on to ultraefficient long-range passenger jets, 3D-printed engine parts and space-age composite materials.
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Aerospace

Hotter Air: Ceramics Are The Secret To Lighter, Faster Jet Engines

Brendan Coffey
Rick Kennedy
June 03, 2019

After examining the possibility of ceramics being used in flight in 2001, scientists from the Institute for Defense Analyses starkly concluded, “There may be more pigs flying than ceramics in the future.” It’s easy to see why when you think of a coffee mug: The material is great for handling heat but breaks catastrophically when met with force.

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investors

Annual Meeting: GE Shows Shareowners Digital Industrial Future

Tim Cheng
April 26, 2017
“We didn’t have calculators, so you used a slide rule for all of your multiplications,"" Reynolds said. Image credit: GE"
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jobs

Ready For Takeoff: This Apprentice Program Is Launching Jobs In A Jet Engine Factory For High School Kids

Maggie Sieger
April 25, 2017
The Hydes' oldest daughter is an IT business analyst, their son is a computer engineer, and their youngest daughter will be studying art and psychology. Scott Reynolds’ daughters, both of whom were at the top of their classes in high school and college, now work in education, one as a teacher and the other as an operations manager for a national charter school network. When they were young, their father showed them a profile American Girl magazine had written about their grandmother’s career at GE.
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materials

Keeping Guinness On Speed Dial: Here’s How GE Turbines Can Push Record Efficiency Ever Higher

Todd Alhart
August 12, 2016
Red Auerbach, the Boston Celtics’ legendary coach, said that all records were made to be broken. GE, which is moving its headquarters to Beantown, should feel right at home.
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FIA16

Space Age Ceramics Are Aviation's New Cup Of Tea

Tomas Kellner
July 13, 2016
People have been making things from iron and steel for more than 3,000 years. Machines built from their alloys have landed on the moon and reached the very bottom of the ocean. But engineers such as GE Aviation’s Sanjay Correa now believe that “we’re running out of headroom in metals.”
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FIA16

Are You Ready For The 18-Hour Flight?

Tomas Kellner
July 12, 2016
The oil embargo of 1973 was a miserable period when American towns banned Christmas lights to save electricity, billboards urged citizens to “turn off the damn lights” and filling stations dispensed gasoline by appointment only. The crisis got everyone thinking seriously about innovation and energy efficiency. One result: the massive and efficient jet engines that power the world’s longest commercial flights today.
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