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8/4/2019 ProMexico: Negocios Magazine: General Electric Puts Mexico in the World's Skies
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General Electric’s confidence in
Mexico, more specifically in
the talent of its engineers, has
sent the country soaring sky
high. Literally. The turbine en-
gines that several families of international com-
mercial carriers are fitted with are designed
at the General Electric Advanced Engineering
Center (GEIQ) in the state of Querétaro, in ad-
dition to software that can illuminate entire
buildings and devices to generate electricity
and fossil fuel energy.
The Advanced Turbomachinery Engineer-
ing Center (CIAT, for its acronym in Spanish)
that preceded geiq was opened in 1999, also in
the state of Querétaro. General Electric invest-
ed 24 million usd into the expansion of CIAT,
which began operating under its new name in
mid-February 2011.
The research campus is one of a kind in
Latin America –similar facilities are to be
found only in Turkey, Russia, Poland and India.It employs 1,300 engineers, mostly graduates
of Mexican universities with specializations in
aerospace science and technology and who, to-
gether, devote over one million hours a year to
aeronautical research. General Electric plans
to pour an additional 20 million usd into the
center in 2015 to take on more engineers and
step up its research activities.
It is no coincidence that General Electric
chose the central Mexican state of Querétaro
as the location for GEIQ. Mexico has been a key
territory in the company’s development, just
as General Electric has played a key role in the
economic development of certain regions of the
country. Their shared history began in 1896,
just 15 years after General Electric was found-
ed in the US and only five years after Thomas
Edison built the world’s first incandescent light
bulb factory in New Jersey. General Electric
opened its first factory in Mexico in 1929 and
the business opportunities have continued ever
since, according to GE General Manager for
Mexico Gabriela Hernández Cardoso.
General Electric has 21 manufacturing
plants in Mexico –more than it has in any other
country bar its native US. It also has a presence
in the country through the assembly plants of
partners such as Mabe, IUSA, Prolec GE and
AMI GE. Some 11,000 people are employed
directly in Mexico by General Electric, which
was listed as one of the best companies to work
for by Expansión magazine.
Due to its skilled labor, strategic geo- graphic location and ties with other markets
in Latin America and the world, Mexico
holds enormous potential for the company’s
development, as General Electric’s global ex-
ecutives have duly acknowledged. GE Capi-
tal, Energy Infrastructure, Technology Infra-
structure and Home & Business Solutions are
some of the business units currently operat-
ing in Mexico.
These days, however, opportunities aren’t
to be had solely on the manufacturing end but
also in research and development. And this is
the task of GEIQ, an 8,000-square-meter facil-
ity where mechanical parts and software are
developed; where designs are validated, where
diagnostic tests are conducted, where compo-
nents are certified and where several interna-
tional airlines come for support and assistance.
Every time you get on a plane, you have
something to thank GEIQ for, not least the
GEnx, a next generation turbofan jet engine
that translates into fuel savings of 20% for com-
mercial craft like the Boeing 787, 747-8 and 777.
The center is currently working on mechanical
parts for the world’s largest aircraft, the Airbus
A380; solving problems related to the power-
ful G90 engine and developing some of the
110 clean energy products featured in General
Electric’s ecomagination portfolio.
The list of services and products manufac-
tured in Mexico is vast, ranging from engine
cabs, maritime engines, steam, wind, water
and gas turbines to electricity generators,nuclear reactors, water-treatment equipment,
valves, drilling systems for oil wells, electricity
plants for oil refineries, systems for the opera-
tion and maintenance of electric power plants,
medical equipment, electrical appliances and
lighting and light bulbs, to name just a few. All
designed and made by the heads and hands
of Mexico, a country General Electric would
change for no other.n
www.ciat.com.mx
this research campUs is the only
one of its kind in latin america
–similar facilities are to Be foUnd
only in tUrkey, rUssia, poland and
india. it employs 1,300 engineers,
most of whom are gradUates of
mexican Universities.