Appliances

The annual Super Bowl broadcast must be the one time every year when viewers don’t automatically change the channel during commercials. Who can forget E*Trade’s chimp “wasting $2 million” or Apple’s iconic “1984” spot? Joining brands from Budweiser to Bridgestone, GE will run two ads during the big game on [...]

Millions of Americans go online to look for a new job. Now GE is using the same technology that forms the backbone of the Internet to open new U.S. manufacturing jobs.
That technology is a massive new data center, which opened at GE’s Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, last year. The [...]

Logging into your iPhone and managing your home heater or washer over the Internet may still seem like a far-fetched idea, unless you live in Warner Robins, Georgia.
Ten households in this southern city, perhaps best known for the nearby Robins Air Force Base, will have their homes fitted with [...]

Mark Little, head of GE Global Research, says that at GE, “the business of research is not the business of Eureka moments. It’s the business of planning strategic approaches to things, hard work, and patience.” This has been true for over a century, whether the innovation at hand involved a [...]

Later this week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is set to release a special report on managing the risks of extreme events and disasters. The findings will likely cover a wide spectrum of contributors to climate change and hardly settle the global warming debate.
But by the time consensus [...]

GE is now accepting applications for 480 hourly manufacturing jobs at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky. The application can be found here and can only be submitted online, starting at 6:30 a.m. this Wednesday, September 28th and ending at 4:00 p.m. on September 30th. While the final mix of positions [...]

It wouldn’t be out of place at a monster truck rally. 40 feet tall and capable of eating up and breaking down 150,000 used refrigerators annually, the new UNTHA Recycling Technology (URT) system at the Appliance Recycling Centers of America’s (ARCA’s) facility in Philadelphia is an engineering marvel. At an [...]