March 29, 2012
GE Lighting’s Nela Park unearthed a 100-year-old time capsule along with five century-old light bulbs as they kick-off Nela Park’s year long celebration of their 100th anniversary in East Cleveland. After pulling everything out of the time capsule, they tried to light one of the 100-year-old bulbs. Today’s GE Lighting employs some 17,000 employees around the world, including more than 700 at Nela Park, where cutting-edge research continues.
March 19, 2012
GE’s jobs expansion has been driven in part by an unprecedented boom in orders and commitments for jet engines, especially the new emissions-reducing LEAP engine. In 2011, orders of the LEAP totaled more than 3,000 units at CFM International, the 50/50 joint company of France’s Snecma and GE Aviation. Together with orders for their popular CFM56 engines, orders and commitments at CFM totaled a record 4,556 in 2011, a figure three times their current yearly output. Orders and commitments came in from companies around the globe, including AirAsia, Garuda, Air China, SAS, Virgin America, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Lion Air.
The GE-built portion of the LEAP and the CFM56 engines are fully assembled in the US, with participation from facilities across the country, including Asheville, NC; Peebles, OH; Hooksett, NH; and Victorville, CA. The LEAP engines are on schedule to enter service in 2016, and as production comes online and expands, GE expects to hire hundreds more in the US.
March 18, 2012
General Electric’s Chief Technology Officer recently said that the company’s support of Apple’s iPhones and Macs for employees is a recruiting positive that communicates to candidates that it is a “contemporary company.”
March 15, 2012
Ronald Reagan’s intro to a 1955 GE reel on the company’s space activities promises a practical assessment of space technology that, in hindsight, is comically understated. (GE sponsors this magazine.) Instead of saying that we would be living in lunar colonies within the decade, Dr. Leo Steg offered the convenience of inexpensive long distance calling, satellite TV and accurate weather forecasting. He also predicted that man would go into space but not until after a long period of testing.
March 11, 2012
A new multi-university initiative announced March 8 will provide best-practices training for people working in the rapidly growing shale natural gas and oil development sector. The effort involves Penn State, the University of Texas at Austin and the Colorado School of Mines; training programs will be led by faculty at each academic institution and are designed to ensure that regulators and policymakers have access to the latest technological and operational expertise to assist in their oversight of shale development. ExxonMobil and GE, two major U.S. energy corporations, each will contribute $1 million to the new educational effort.
