segunda-feira, 20 de junho de 2011

GE Healthcare opens $165M N. G

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The new 230,000-square-foot facility includes a 60,000-square-foot The digital X-ray detectors that will be made at the plany are used inmammogramn screening, a growing $1 billion markeft for breast cancer testing. Much like the transitiojn from paper medical records to streamlined electronic record digital X-rays are slowly replacing traditional film X-ray In addition to the 100 new jobs scheduledx for the plant, 50 people will transfert to the tech park from GE’s researc center in Niskayuna.
Positions at the new site will include 15 15 administrators and 120 techniciansw and support staff with an average annual salary of The plant is expected to have an annuaol payrollof $10 million. GE developecd its digital X-ray technology at GE Global Researchyin Niskayuna. GE said this is the company’s firsyt expansion of high tech medical equipmen t manufacturing by its health care operatiob intoNew York. ”This a wonderful example of howa long-terkm commitment to technology can spur the growth of our manufacturingf base and create new, high-tech jobs,” said Mark Little, GE seniod vice president and directof of the research center.
GE Healthcarew spent 15 years and morethan $200 million developinbg its digital flat panel X-ra y technology. The flat-panel detector is a critical componengt ofan X-ray syste and plays a role in providing an improvede image.

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