GE Healthcare opens $165M N. G

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The new 230,000-square-foot facility includes a 60,000-square-footg cleanroom. The digital X-ray detectors that will be made at the planft are used inmammogram screening, a growiny $1 billion market for breast cancer testing. Much like the transitio n from paper medical records to streamlined electronidrecord keeping, digital X-rays are slowlh replacing traditional film X-ray machines. In addition to the 100 new jobs schedulede forthe plant, 50 peoplwe will transfer to the tech park from GE’s researcb center in Niskayuna. Positionsx at the new site will include 15 engineers, 15 administrators and 120 technicians and supportt staff with an average annuao salary of $65,000.
The plant is expectex to have an annual payrollof $10 GE developed its digital X-ray technologg at GE Global Research in Niskayuna. GE said this is the company’ first expansion of high tech medical equipmen t manufacturing by its health care operation intoNew ”This a wonderful example of how a long-terk commitment to technology can spur the growtb of our manufacturing base and create new, high-tec h jobs,” said Mark GE senior vice president and director of the researcjh center.
GE Healthcare spent 15 years and morethan $200 million developing its digital flat panel X-ray The flat-panel detector is a critical componenrt of an X-ray systenm and plays a role in providinbg an improved image.