{"id":1004142769,"date":"2016-04-26T00:59:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T08:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004142769"},"modified":"2020-04-15T03:33:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T11:33:44","slug":"ge-opens-first-phase-of-south-carolina-manufacturing-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ge-opens-first-phase-of-south-carolina-manufacturing-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"GE Opens First Phase of South Carolina Manufacturing Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Keith Loria, Contributing Editor<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004142771\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/04\/keith-ge.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004142771\" data-attachment-id=\"1004142771\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ge-opens-first-phase-of-south-carolina-manufacturing-plant\/keith-ge\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/04\/keith-ge.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,666\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"keith ge\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/04\/keith-ge.jpg?w=1000\" class=\"wp-image-1004142771 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/04\/keith-ge.jpg\" alt=\"GE's Advanced Manufacturing Works plant in Greenville, S.C.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/04\/keith-ge.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/04\/keith-ge.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/04\/keith-ge.jpg?resize=768,511 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004142771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GE&#8217;s Advanced Manufacturing Works plant in Greenville, S.C.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Greenville, S.C.<\/strong>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GE<\/a> has opened Advanced Manufacturing Works, a 125,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/industrial\/\" target=\"_blank\">industrial plant<\/a> in Greenville, S.C., to will serve as GE Power\u2019s first advanced manufacturing facility.<\/p>\n<p>To date, GE has invested $73 million in the facility with plans to invest an additional $327 million across the GE Power Greenville campus over the next several years to drive innovation and the faster development of best-in-class technologies that deliver more value for customers across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGE is leading the transformation of manufacturing in the power industry, and this facility will ignite the digital industrial revolution for our company and the industry,\u201d Steve Bolze, GE Power president &amp; CEO, said in a prepared release. \u201cThe opening of the AMW is a pivotal moment for us. We\u2019re building a skilled workforce and culture that\u2019s devoted to delivering breakthrough innovations that deliver better, faster outcomes for our customers and unlock new productivity and growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The facility was designed to revolutionize the way GE Power creates and improves products by serving as an incubator for the development of advanced manufacturing processes and rapid prototyping of new parts for GE\u2019s energy businesses\u2014Power, Renewable Energy, Oil &amp; Gas and Energy Connections.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bolze, new techniques and production processes developed at the facility will bring new best-in-class products to global customers quicker than ever. The facility will include industrial innovations, from new materials science, 3-D printing (additive manufacturing) and automation to advanced software platforms and robotics are redefining manufacturing for the future.<\/p>\n<p>GE first started in Greenville more than 40 years ago with a 340,000-square-foot site. With the latest addition of the AMW, the site has grown close to 1.7 million square feet of factories, offices and laboratories focused on manufacturing advanced products for customers worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>According to CBRE\u2019s First Quarter Industrial Market Report for the Greenville area, absorption topped 1.6 million square feet for the second straight quarter, driven by new construction, and more than 6 million square feet of space is still under construction in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, GE had its\u00a0grand opening of its first additive manufacturing center in Pittsburgh\u2014another step forward in the company\u2019s journey as the world\u2019s premiere digital industrial company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $400 million advanced manufacturing facility in South Carolina will be the first of its kind for GE Power. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":1004142771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21782,21808,21748,21783,21742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004142769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-featured","category-industrial","category-investment","category-latest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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