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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 [...]

Seventy percent of all goods shipped in the United States are moved by truck. As a result, the health of the trucking industry, with annual revenues of $650 billion, or 4.4% of the U.S. GDP, is one of the leading domestic economic indicators. GE Capital has been helping finance the [...]

Global demand for GE jet engines, locomotives, gas turbines and other sophisticated machinery has powered GE’s growth and helped create over 10,000 U.S. jobs since 2009. Today, GE announced that industrial orders grew 16% as compared to the same period a year ago. It was also the fourth straight quarter [...]

GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt told nearly 5,000 Navy midshipmen, faculty and staff last night at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, that he is optimistic about America’s future and that winning requires that we work harder, work smarter and work together. Immelt said that there was “only [...]

Growing global demand for GE’s high-tech products has led to manufacturing expansion and new jobs in the U.S. in 2011. Today, GE Transportation announced it will spend $231 million to build a new manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Texas, for making electric drive systems for heavy-duty mining trucks and to [...]

Ninety percent of American business leaders agree that green technologies and the energy industry will power manufacturing growth in the U.S. over the next three years, along with high-tech and biotechnology, according to a survey of 360 senior industry executives about the future of manufacturing sponsored by GE and carried [...]

In two years, GE has announced 14 new manufacturing plants or existing facility expansions in the United States, from a new locomotive manufacturing plant in Texas and an aircraft engine composites factory in Mississippi to refurbished appliance and lighting facilities in Kentucky, Alabama and Ohio, among others.