Archives with Category : Building

13 April 2012 Posted by Patricia Leary-Kreitzer

Regional Takeoff

Many Boeing airplanes have at least one component made in Romania. The first GE Aviation engine designed and produced outside the US comes from the Czech Republic. And the Boeing 787, the current celebrity among airplanes, is powered by a GEnx engine partly created in Poland. In addition, components for GE, CFMI, and Rolls Royce Engines are repaired in Hungary. The CEE region plays a key role in the global business success of GE Aviation.

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28 March 2012 Posted by Ivan Hutter

Turn on the Green Light

Energy saving, quality of light and new EU regulations supporting sustainability are key challenges and opportunities that municipalities and retail shops face when they invest in upgrading lighting systems. The GE Lighting’s Global Technology Center in Budapest developed an innovative, ceramic based solution that offers many of the advantages of LED technology in a more cost effective manner.

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7 March 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Remote Health Monitoring

Guest post by Andrea Szabóné Mészáros, Plant Leader at GE Energy Measurement & Control

In the same way that patients can be remotely monitored nowadays, industrial equipment can also benefit from this technology. This is what GE Measurement & Control business is doing at its newest remote condition monitoring center in Fót, Hungary. The center services customers from the United Kingdom to China and from the Central Europe region to Russia and east to Sakhalin Island. The machines that are being monitored are mainly critical assets such as steam and gas turbines, generators, compressors, pumps and extruders in petrochemical and power generation plants and in different oil & gas platforms.

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15 February 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Green is Green

Guest post by Cristian Colteanu, GE’s President and CEO for Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova

The CEE region and its countries are at a crossroad: we have to decide (1) whether we go for the best in first-class technologies when it comes to building a new and modern infrastructure that will stay with us for decades to come and (2) what role this region should and can play in the global innovation game.

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31 January 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

From Stadium to Streets

Guest post by Cristian Colteanu, GE President & CEO for Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova and Lesław Kuzaj, GE CEO for Central Europe

Participation and results at the Olympics have been high on the agenda of the countries in our region since modern Olympics. We all know how many gold medals our fellow athletes won last time and we talk about how many our countries will win in London. But we rarely think about what the Olympic Games bring to the table when it comes to testing the 21st century approach to cities.

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30 January 2012 Posted by Kinga Kalocsai

Bright Light – a Bundle of Innovation

Replacing the incandescent light bulb is no joke. Commercialized by Thomas Edison more than a century ago, the light bulb ranks with the printing press, electricity, and penicillin as one of the great inventions that changed the world. But its huge success also became a weakness. Lighting now represents as much a fifth of a household’s energy consumption.

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20 January 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

H80, Welcome on Board

It wasn’t the presence of charming flight attendants that caught everyone’s eyes at the GE Aviation celebration, but the luscious curves and dazzling shine of the new H80 engine. Shortly after receiving EASA certification in December 2011, GE Aviation’s new turboprop engine H80 was introduced at a special celebration in Prague. Being the first aircraft engine in GE Aviation’s history that was developed outside the U.S.A. - in the Czech Republic –, H80 has been in the spotlight of Czech media.

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13 January 2012 Posted by Adriana Mirela Mircea

Sustainable Infrastructure Path for Bulgaria

GE and the US Embassy partner in organizing a stakeholder dialogue on today’s challenges in sustainable energy, water and process technologies, efficient lighting and affordable healthcare in Sofia on January 24^th.

“Bulgaria’s economic performance has improved recently but, before it can start on a sustainable growth path, the country has to undergo a long process of integrating expertise, investment and technology. GE is ready to contribute to this and the dialogue in Sofia is part of our commitment to support Bulgaria’s infrastructure upgrade and long-term growth.” – said Cristian Colteanu, GE President & CEO for Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova.

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5 January 2012 Posted by Adriana Mirela Mircea

Supporting a Greener Danube

Since Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007, the Danube - the world’s most international river basin – has largely become an EU space. The Danube has a vital importance, as it can open EU to its near neighbors, the Black Sea region, the South Caucasus and Central Asia. The recent EU Strategy for the Danube Region contributes to EU objectives, reinforcing major European policy initiatives, especially the Europe 2020 strategy.

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