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The
electrical and electronics (E/E) industry turns out
next-generation products perhaps faster than any other segment
in the world. This rapid proliferation is due to intense,
ever-increasing consumer demand and to the successful
penetration of electronics technologies into virtually every
other major sector, such as automotive, healthcare, converged
devices, telecommunications, computers, and more.
Constant change is the byword. Suppliers of
materials, equipment, and other products must innovate faster
than the manufacturing curve to bring their customers
leading-edge technologies that can add value and provide
differentiation in a crowded field. One such company is GE
Advanced Materials.
GE Advanced Materials is a newly organized
GE business, formed Jan. 1, 2004 and consisting of GE’s three
former materials businesses: GE Plastics, GE Silicones, and GE
Quartz. GE Advanced Materials is headed by President and CEO
John Krenicki, and headquartered in Pittsfield, Mass. The
combined product portfolio offered under the GE Advanced
Materials umbrella ranges from quartz crucibles used to grow
silicone ingots; to heat-dissipating, interface-management
materials to protect delicate integrated circuits; to connector
materials that can survive high-temperature infrared reflow
soldering; to silicone-based gels, coatings, and encapsulents;
to high-performance polycarbonate and polyetherimide films; to
wire coatings for plugs and direct current power cords.
“Over the past two-plus years, while the
materials industry was in a downturn, we didn’t sleep,” says
Greg Adams, general manager, Global Marketing, GE Advanced
Materials, Plastics. “Now we’re able to serve this sector better
than in the past. GE Advanced Materials can touch almost every
major segment of the industry, which is why we view ourselves as
not just any materials supplier, but as a strategic,
wing-to-wing, fully integrated supplier that can offer broad
coverage virtually anywhere our customers need it.”
GE Advanced Materials, Quartz – a
leading producer of high-purity quartz and boron nitride for the
semiconductor, electronics, fiber optic, lighting, and cosmetic
sectors – is a major supplier of quartz and pyrolytic boron
nitride (PBN) growth vessels. The quartz crucibles, which can
be as large as...
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