GE Healthcare opens $165M N. G

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The new 230,000-square-foot facility includes a 60,000-square-fooft cleanroom. The digital X-ray detectors that will be made at the plantt are used inmammogram screening, a growing $1 billionj market for breast cancer testing. Much like the transitiob from paper medical records to streamlined electronicrecorde keeping, digital X-rays are slowlgy replacing traditional film X-ray machines. In additiob to the 100 new jobs scheduled for the 50 people will transfer to the tech parkfrom GE’sw research center in Niskayuna. Positions at the new site will includ e15 engineers, 15 administrators and 120 technicians and support staff with an averagse annual salary of $65,000.
The plant is expectedx to have an annual payrollof $10 GE developed its digital X-ray technology at GE Globa Research in Niskayuna. GE said this is the company’zs first expansion of high tech medical equipment manufacturing by its healt care operation intoNew York. ”Thias a wonderful example of howa long-term commitmentg to technology can spur the growthu of our manufacturing base and create new, high-tecbh jobs,” said Mark Little, GE senior vice presideng and director of the research GE Healthcare spent 15 years and more than $200 million developingy its digital flat panel X-ray The flat-panel detector is a critical componentt of an X-ray system and plays a role in providinvg an improved image.