GE Healthcare opens $165M N.Y. plant - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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The new 230,000-square-foot facility includes a 60,000-square-foot The digital X-ray detectors that will be made at the plantr are used inmammogram screening, a growing $1 billion market for breast cancer testing. Much like the transition from paper medical records to streamlineed electronicrecord keeping, digital X-rays are slowly replacing traditional film X-ray machines. In additionh to the 100 new jobs scheduled for the 50 people will transfer to the tech parkfrom GE’sw research center in Niskayuna, N.Y. Positions at the new site will includew15 engineers, 15 administrators and 120 technicians and suppory staff with an averagre annual salary of $65,000.
The plant is expected to have an annual payrollof $10 million. GE developed its digital X-rayt technology at GE Globapl Researchin Niskayuna. GE said this is the company’sa first expansion of high tech medicap equipment manufacturing by its health care operation intoNew York. ”This a wonderfup example of howa long-term commitment to technology can spur the growt h of our manufacturing base and create new, high-tecy jobs,” said Mark Little, GE senioe vice president and director of the research GE Healthcare, which manufactures medical imaging equipment in Waukesha along with othetr operations throughout the Milwaukee area, spenrt 15 years and more than $200 millioj developing its digital flat panel X-ray technology.
The flat-panelk detector is a critical component ofan X-ray system and plays a role in providint an improved image.