General Electric/GE originated in 1890 by Thomas Edison and is recognized by Forbes 2009 as the world’s largest company. In 1892 GE combined with Thomson Houston Company which united several businesses. This company grew significantly in 1911 because of its lightning business and also holds the honor of being the first industrial park in the world.
Since the days of the lighting sector, GE has ventured out and diversified. Today, General Electric has a Conglomerate of businesses; Aviation, Aircraft, Jet Engines, Electricity, Entertainment, Finance, Gas Turbine, Generation Industrial Automation, Lighting, Medical Imaging Equipment, Medical Technology, Medical Software, Motors, Railway Locomotives and Wind Turbine.
Environmental Record
With a wide diverse range of business sectors, one would automatically know the great implications such a business could have on our fragile environment. It is undeniable that GE has a wide record of both water and air pollution, but unlike other companies GE has since set up various large scale environmental initiatives to help rectify its wrong and further promote our eco friendly era. Eco imagination the new initiative developed by GE and is aimed at helping solve the biggest environmental challenges the world faces today. Three years has since pasted since the initiative first started in 2004 and GE has already surpassed its target of greenhouse gas reductions by 1.01 million metric tones and its energy usage by 4.42 million MMBtus.
No Water Brings More More Crisis
Recognizing the tremendous impact that scarcity of water has on many nations, GE is using all available resources, technologies and expertise. In this battle against water extreme water shortage, eco-imagination has set out to conserve global water resources, achieve reductions in water use, improve water reuse and increase the availability of usable water.
Examining a case study will reveal that GE is a leader of a complex change as it transforms one of the companies more common yet useless asset into a needed life form. Utilizing the method of reverse osmosis which is less expensive and saves more energy than other processes, Africa’s biggest desalination factory has been constructed. The Hamma factory was christened in Algeria in February 2008 and provides pure drinking water to more than one and a half million individuals at this time. Utilizing this innovative methodology to get a head start in its environmental movement, GE water filtration is satisfying the palates of many nations-one at a time.
GE water Filter & Process Technologies is revolutionizing the recycling of waste water in the American southwest and around the world. In the city of Tempe, AZ, GE with its GE water filter project has increased the productivity of the citys water reuse capabilities enormously, allowing the recycling of an additional 2.5 billion gallons of water per year. With eco-imagination and new GE water filter processes, the purity of recycled water is now making it a valuable resource, changing the environment, changing lives and bringing new hope to a thirsty world.