GE is a global infrastructure, finance and media company. As a diversified enterprise, GE is committed to solving the world's basic needs of all kinds.GE's products and services range from energy, water treatment, transportation systems and healthcare, to finance and information, with customers in more than 100 countries and more than 300,000 employees. To date, all of GE's industrial groups have established operations in China, where GE employs more than 13,000 people.
GE Water & Process Technologies, headquartered in Pennsylvania, U.S.A., is the world's leading provider of purified water treatment, recycled water treatment, raw water wastewater treatment, and process engineering and manufacturing technologies. GE offers the industry's broadest range of water and process technologies, including separation equipment, membrane and filtration technologies, testing and analytical equipment, specialized chemistries, mobile water treatment technologies and services, and related financial management tools to meet the needs of our customers in a variety of water and process treatment areas.
In 2005, GE established a highly qualified water treatment research and development team at the GE China R&D Center in Shanghai, China. The team focuses on industrial water conservation, water purification and online water quality monitoring technologies. The China water treatment R&D team is an important part of GE's global R&D strategy and promotes the localization of products and solutions to better serve the Chinese market and the needs of Chinese customers. In 2008, GE also completed the expansion of its membrane manufacturing facility in Wuxi, China. The Wuxi plant has been put into operation to realize the reverse osmosis filtration membrane systems and ultrafiltration membrane equipment local production and assembly, so as to provide customers in China with more internationally competitive products and services.