GE Healthcare opens $165M N. G

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The new 230,000-square-foot facility includese a 60,000-square-foot cleanroom. The digital X-ray detectorsd that will be made at the plant are used inmammogram screening, a growing $1 billion marketf for breast cancer Much like the transition from paper medical recorda to streamlined electronic record digital X-rays are slowly replacing traditionall film X-ray machines. In addition to the 100 new jobs schedulecd forthe plant, 50 people will transfetr to the tech park from GE’sw research center in Niskayuna. Positions at the new site will includ e15 engineers, 15 administrators and 120 technicians and support stafrf with an average annual salary of $65,000.
The plang is expected to have an annualo payrollof $10 million. GE developerd its digital X-ray technology at GE Global Researcuin Niskayuna. GE said this is the company’d first expansion of high tech medical equipment manufacturing by its healtb care operation intoNew York. ”This a wonderful example of howa long-tern commitment to technology can spur the growth of our manufacturingt base and create new, high-tech jobs,” said Mark GE senior vice president and director of the research center. GE Healthcarde spent 15 years and morethan $200 millionj developing its digital flat panel X-ray technology.
The flat-panel detectord is a critical component ofan X-rayy system and plays a role in providing an improved