GE to invest $60m to expand Singapore repair centre
GE has announced to invest up to $60 million over 10 years to create a new global repair and development centre for HA gas turbines in its existing service site in Singapore.
The centre is expected to become one of GE’s largest gas turbine repair facilities globally servicing its industry-leading HA (high efficiency, air-cooled) and aero-derivative gas turbines.
“In addition, it will allow us to better serve our HA customers in Asia as we provide localised support and expect to reduce HA repair cycle time for them by up to two months,” said Scott Strazik, chief executive officer of GE Gas Power, in a statement.
The new “center of excellence” will increase GE’s repair development capability to support the industry’s most-advanced, heavy-duty gas turbine.
The centre, which will begin repairing HA components in 2021, will include a research and development centre to develop next-generation HA repair capabilities.
“GE is committed to strengthening the global gas power market and empowering its customers in the sector. Establishing a dedicated repair and development centre in Singapore will certainly help us instill new confidence among the customers in countries like Bangladesh, which is moving aggressively to transform the power sector by adopting path-breaking technologies like the HA,” said Deepesh Nanda, CEO of Gas Power Systems, GE South Asia.
In Bangladesh, GE has won orders from Summit Power and Unique Group entailing the installation of 9HA gas turbines, as part of the turnkey scope, in the upcoming combined-cycle gas-based power plants. The power plants will be operational by 2022, the statement said.
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