GE announces expansion of Bangalore ops

GE Healthcare, the $17 billion healthcare division of General Electric Company, today announced the expansion of its Bangalore manufacturing operations to locally serve its customers and leveraging the price-value equation in India.

GE Healthcare also rolled out its first Computed Tomography (CT) - system manufactured in India.

The HiSpeed Dual - a low cost dual-slice - CT system is one of the fastest selling CT system in the world, it said in a statement.

The firm said it is committed to producing more high end products locally in an effort to make quality products more affordable and accessible to Indian healthcare practitioners, especially those who need it in tier II and III towns.

 

"Today, we are making a giant leap by manufacturing high end imaging systems right here in India, making GE the first and only company manufacturing new CT imaging systems in India. In the past, we have designed, developed and manufactured ultrasound, ECG, X-ray systems and many sub-systems in India", said John Dineen, President & CEO, GE Healthcare.

HiSpeed Dual CT system allows the healthcare practitioner to increase productivity, optimise patient flows and above all improves access to a large number of advanced clinical applications, it said.

GE declared its plans to manufacture GoldSeal HiSpeed CT/e single and dual slice systems exclusively in India for both domestic and export worldwide.

The manufacturing plant here has capacity to produce upto 300 HiSpeed CT/e units in one year with an option to increase capacity further. GoldSeal is GE brand for refurbished products.