GE Doubles Production Capacity at Chinese Plant

GE has doubled the production capacity of its water technologies manufacturing plant in Wuxi New Zone, in eastern China.

The expanded facility has reduced GE’s time in fulfilling local customer orders.

The expansion is part of GE’s plan to invest more than $2bn by 2012 in order to expand its innovation and customer support capabilities in China as the government pushes to modernise the country’s energy and water infrastructure to help sustain economic growth.

The Wuxi plant will supply recycling, filtration and processing technologies, such as reverse osmosis filtration and ultra-filtration equipment, to industrial customers in the steel, energy, petrochemicals and food and beverage sectors.

GE also expanded its on-site membrane element fabrication capacity and added several product lines.