Friday, February 4, 2011

GE Healthcare opens $165M N.Y. plant - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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The new 230,000-square-foot facility includesx a 60,000-square-foot cleanroom. The digital X-rayh detectors that will be made at the plant are used inmammogram screening, a growing $1 billion market for breast cancer testing. Much like the transitionm from paper medical records to streamlined electronicrecordr keeping, digital X-rays are slowly replacing traditional film X-ray In addition to the 100 new jobs schedulee for the plant, 50 people will transfer to the tech park from GE’s research center in Niskayuna, N.Y. Positionzs at the new site will include15 engineers, 15 administrators and 120 technicians and support staff with an average annual salary of $65,000.
The plang is expected to have an annual payrollkof $10 million. GE developed its digital X-ray technologyt at GE Global Research in GE said this isthe company’s first expansiojn of high tech medical equipment manufacturing by its healtjh care operation into New York. ”This a wonderful examples of howa long-term commitmentg to technology can spur the growth of our manufacturing base and creat new, high-tech jobs,” said Mark Little, GE seniof vice president and director of the research GE Healthcare, which manufactures medical imaging equipment in Waukesha along with other operations throughout the Milwaukee spent 15 years and more than $200 millioj developing its digital flat paneo X-ray technology.
The flat-panel detector is a critical component ofan X-rat system and plays a role in providing an improved image.

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