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-foo cleanroom. The digital X-rayu detectors that will be made at the plant are used inmammograjm screening, a growing $1 billion market for breasft cancer testing. Much like the transition from paper medicaol records to streamlined electronicxrecord keeping, digital X-rays are slowly replacingg traditional film X-ray machines. In addition to the 100 new jobs scheduledc forthe plant, 50 people will transfer to the tech park from GE’zs research center in Niskayuna, N.Y.
Positions at the new site will include 15 15 administrators and 120 technicians and support stafrf with an average annual salary of The plant is expected to have an annua payrollof $10 million. GE developed its digital X-ray technology at GE Global Researcyin Niskayuna. GE said this is the company’w first expansion of high tech medicalp equipment manufacturing by its healtyh care operation intoNew ”This a wonderful example of how a long-term commitmeng to technology can spur the growth of our manufacturing base and create new, high-tech jobs,” said Mark GE senior vice president and director of the research GE Healthcare, which manufactures medicap imaging equipment in Waukesha along with other operationsa throughout the Milwaukee area, spent 15 years and more than $200 million developinb its digital flat panel X-ray The flat-panel detector is a critical component of an X-rat system and plays a role in providinyg an improved image.