WUXI, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 5, 2005--Demonstrating its strong commitment to the Chinese economy, GE today announced the opening of its first quartz manufacturing facility in Wuxi New Zone, located in East China's Jiangsu Province. The new facility represents an investment of more than $23 million. It joins two existing GE plants in Wuxi and will serve the lighting industry in China, and around the world, with furnace and finishing operations for high-purity, small-diameter quartz tubing.
NORTHUMBERLAND, ENGLAND, June 24, 2005: -- GE Energy's pipeline services operation has successfully launched its first SmartScan™ tool, a flexible inspection system designed to help the oil and gas industry overcome a longtime obstacle: the in-line corrosion inspection of "unpiggable" pipelines.
A pipeline is deemed unpiggable if conventional, in-line inspection tools ("smart pigs") are unable to inspect a given line due to valve restrictions, multiple pipeline diameters or too many sharp bends.
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CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2005--New ultra-bright Nighthawk(TM) replacement automotive headlamp bulbs from GE are now available at retailers throughout the U.S. and Canada. Nighthawk bulbs give consumers the brightest GE automotive lamps available and offer greater night driving confidence. Traffic death rates are three times greater at night than during the day, according to the National Safety Council.
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(2005년 6월 14일, 프랑스 르브르제)- 대한항공은 자사의 신형 에어버스 슈퍼점보 항공기인 A380의 엔진으로 Engine Alliance(EA)사의 GP7200엔진을 선정했다. 대한항공은 5대의 확정 계약분 A380에 대한 23개의 엔진과 3대의 추가옵션 분에 대한 13개의 엔진을 발주하였다. 확정 물량은 약 3억불, 만약 추가옵션을 실행시 1억 7천만불이 추가되는 규모다. 금번 수주로 EA는 A380 기종의 엔진 수주율이 58퍼센트로 올랐으며 총 확정계약 엔진은 320개로 41억불 규모다 . Engine Alliance는 GE운송사업부문(GE Transportation)의 항공기 엔진사업부(Aircraft Engines) 와 Pratt & Whiteny사가 50:50의 공동투자하여 신규 개발되는 고용량 장거리항공기에 맞는 최신기술의 엔진을 지원하기 위해 1996년 8월에 설립되었다. 자세한 내용은 www.enginealliance.com.
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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2005--At the SID International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition here, GE Advanced Materials announced it is expanding the Illuminex diffuser film family of optical films for liquid crystal display (LCD) back-lighting applications into complete display solutions for applications such as televisions, notebook PCs, computer monitors, and automotive global positioning system (GPS) displays.
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FLORENCE, ITALY, May 18, 2005: -- GE Energy, working with Enel of Italy, has received a turnkey contract to supply a steam turbine and additional balance-of-plant equipment for the expansion of a geothermal generating plant at Berlin in the province of Usulatan, El Salvador. The facility is located 112 kilometers east of El Salvador's capital city, San Salvador.
Separately, GE Energy has signed a letter of intent with ENEX hf of Iceland to supply a Rotoflow expander package for the geothermal binary cycle of the same facility.
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NEWARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2005--
U.S. Transportation Security Administration Continues Rollout of Program Designed To Enhance Airport Security for Domestic and International Travel
GE Infrastructure, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today that the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed and will put into service today the GE EntryScan3 walk-through explosives detector for passenger screening at the Southwest Airlines security checkpoint of Los Angeles International Airport's Terminal 1.