GE Energy is building on its growing commitment to provide critical water solutions to the Kingdom with the opening of a near $10 million GE Saudi Water & Process Technology Center. The new facility was inaugurated in Dammam early in the week at a ceremony attended by senior government officials and top executives representing GE customers and business partners in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region. It has been established to better serve industrial customers here and in the wider region. The new Technology Center incorporates a blending plant for water treatment chemicals and offers advanced water, water reuse, wastewater and process solutions to local and regional customers. It is the second GE Water facility in the Gulf, following a recently opened manufacturing facility and office complex in Dubai, UAE. The new center is a joint venture between GE and Al Tamimi Group, a leading Saudi Arabian engineering and construction firm with which GE has had a relationship since 1957. Photo shows Glen Messina, CEO of the Chemicals & Monitoring Solutions business for GE Water and Tariq Ali Al Tamimi, president of Al Tamimi Group, cut the ceremonial ribbon. “This technology center exemplifies our commitment to partner in the infrastructure development of Saudi Arabia. GE has been a successful growth partner for the public and private sector companies in the country since 1942. Today, GE is more than 600 people strong in the Kingdom and we continue to invest here as part of our company's localization initiative,” said Glen Messina, CEO of the Chemicals & Monitoring Solutions business for GE Water, a business unit of GE Energy.
