Sugar from plants may not be the first thing that springs to mind when you start thinking about the latest and most promising drugs. But without a special kind of sugar, a new class of revolutionary medicines called biologics targeting everything from diabetes and cancer to immune disorders, such as arthritis, would be extremely hard to make.
Silicon and carbon are reluctant partners. Although the two elements are among the most abundant on Earth, they almost never bond in nature and it takes a lot of heat and pressure in the lab to coax them into working with each other. But when they do stick together and form a material called silicon carbide (SiC), it’s something to see.
It takes water to create energy and energy to treat water. But wastewater treatment plants are also often one of the biggest users of electric power, sending electricity down the drain.
Engineers at GE, however, have hit on solutions that could solve both problems in one fell swoop. “What if you can have it all,” says Tom Stanley, chief technology officer at GE Water & Process Technologies. “We can help turn wastewater treatment plants from energy consumers into energy producers.”
Esta operación se enmarca en el proceso de reorganización del conglomerado estadounidense, que pretende retornar a sus orígenes industriales, e implica desprenderse de la mayor parte de su división financiera.
General Electric (GE) prosigue la venta de activos que inició el pasado mes de abril para adelgazar sensiblemente GE Capital, su brazo financiero.
El grupo estadounidense ha anunciado hoy la venta de activos al banco Wells Fargo por valor de más de 30.000 millones de dólares (alrededor de 26.300 millones de euros).
GE announced today the creation of Current, a startup that combines energy hardware with a digital backbone to make power simpler and more efficient for customers.
The company, which is backed by GE’s balance sheet, brings together GE’s LED, Solar, Energy Storage and Electric Vehicle businesses as a one-stop shop for early customers like Walgreens, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton Worldwide and others.
When Jeff Immelt made the biggest announcement in his 14 years as General Electric’s CEO this past April, he did it the same way he handles ordinary news, in an 8:30 a.m. conference call with Wall Street analysts. But this time the revelation was stunning: America’s eighth-largest company would sell most of its biggest business, GE Capital—source of half its profits in previous years. The big unknown: How would Wall Street respond?
GE Capital has signed nearly $95 billion in deals to reduce its size as of the end of the third quarter, the company reported on Wednesday. The news comes less than six months after Jeff Immelt told investors that GE would become a more focused digital industrial company and sell most of its banking operations.
La Comisión Europea (CE) ha dado el visto bueno a la compra de los negocios energéticos de la francesa Alstom por parte de la estadounidense General Electric (GE) por 12.500 millones de euros.
Sin embargo, Bruselas ha puesto condiciones para que la operación se lleve acabo, tras investigar en profundidad la operación para evaluar su impacto sobre la competencia en el sector.
De este modo, la Comisión pide que los principales activos de Alstom del negocio de "turbinas de gas de gran potencia", utilizadas principalmente en centrales eléctricas y de gas, sean cedidos a la compañía italiana Ansaldo.
Our CEO, Jeff Immelt, likes to say that if you woke up as an industrial company today, you will wake up as a software and analytics company tomorrow. He doesn’t mean that you’ll be selling software; he means that software will be an important part of whatever you’re making.
At GE, we’ve spent five years and a billion dollars learning how to become a software and analytics company. We’ve learned some amazing lessons along the way, and I’d like to share some of those lessons.
Two years ago, scientists at the GE Global Research labs (GRC) in upstate New York found a futuristic way to fix things: blowing metal powder, at four times the speed of sound, onto parts in need of service. “The tiny bits of material fly so fast then they essentially fuse together when they hit the target,” says Gregorio Dimagli, materials scientist from Avio Aero. “Unlike welding, you don’t need to apply heat to make them stick. The bond happens on the atomic level. That’s why we are so excited.”
