CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2006--Industry-leading companies joined GE Fanuc Automation, Inc, a unit of GE Industrial, at its second annual GE Fanuc Discover 2006 Users Conference, May 31 - June 2, 2006 in Orlando, Florida. Seven customers were honored at the event with the Automation Discovery Awards, symbols of GE's corporate philosophy, "imagination at work."
REXDALE, ON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2006--GE Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), joined the Hon. Laurel Broten, Minister of the Environment, in honouring Unilever Canada with a 2006 global ecomagination Leadership Award today. Unilever Canada received the award in recognition of their significant environmental and operational savings, which resulted in nearly 13 million gallons of water saved; an eight percent reduction of natural gas use; and an operational savings of USD $300,000.
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TREVOSE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2006--GE Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today announced its completion of the ZENON Environmental Inc. (TSX:ZEN and ZEN.A; OTC:ZNEVF and ZNEAF) acquisition. GE purchased ZENON, a global leader in advanced membranes for water purification, wastewater treatment and water reuse, in an all cash transaction valuing ZENON at approximately US $689 million or Cdn $763 million.
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REXDALE, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 31, 2006--On the morning of June, 2, 2006, join GE Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), and the Hon. Laurel Broten, Minister of the Environment, in honouring Unilever Canada with the 2006 global ecomagination Leadership Award. The award will be presented to Unilever Canada for their environmental leadership, which demonstrates that with strategic dedication, companies around the world can simultaneously produce better business and better environmental results.
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WILMINGTON, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2006--GE Energy's (NYSE: GE) nuclear business has signed an exclusive agreement with Silex Systems Limited, an Australia-based technology innovator, to license the technology and develop the company's next generation low enriched uranium manufacturing process in the United States.
The transaction is subject to, among other things, governmental approvals and regulatory controls on the design, construction and operation of the process.
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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2006--GE Energy has signed a contract with the University of California to study the impact that higher levels of intermittent renewable power generation, such as wind energy, will have on the state's power grid.
Goals for the project include ensuring grid reliability and quality and accommodating emerging markets for renewable generation, including both wind and solar energy. The California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research program (PIER) is funding the project.
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SHANGHAI, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2006--The largest round roof of its kind in the world - that of the massive new Shanghai South Railway Station - was constructed of clear, tough Lexan(1) polycarbonate (PC) sheet from GE. This ambitious construction project represents one of the largest single orders of Lexan sheet ever received by GE's Plastics business. The success of the South Railway Station roof led to the selection of another type of Lexan sheet - Lexan Thermoclear(1) multiwall sheet - to glaze the 8,700-square-meter roof of the station's boarding platform.