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GE WATER & PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES

Providing business solutions while protecting the environment

07/27/2008

Leading companies worldwide in developing better ways for water reuse, wastewater treatment and process solutions is GE Water & Process Technologies. One of GE’s (General Electric) diversified businesses, GEW&PT spends millions of dollars to improve technological methods so that our supplies are stretched much further, promoting sustainability energy savings and the preservation of our freshwater habitats.

“GEW&PT incorporates a number of GE’s Imagination Breakthroughs,” Willie Elumba, Country Manager for GE Water & Process Technologies Philippines said. “From desalination to cooling water solutions, mobile water to petrochemical solutions and water recovery boiler solutions, our company delivers a wide variety of products and services.” Indeed, it boasts a broad portfolio of water and process technologies. “GE is the customers’ single source no matter what their water or process need,” he added.

Aside from protecting the environment, GEW&PT also helps improve their customers’ efficiency through the technologies it offers. As a full-service company, it takes charge of its clients’ water and process treatments, processes, drives down costs and boosts profits.

Some of the industries GEW&PT serves include beverage, chemical processing, food processing, commercial and institutional, hydrocarbon processing, pharma-ceutical and power.

“Our people at GEW&PT understand our customers; their businesses and the challenges that they face everyday,” Elumba said. “This is why we constantly expand our list of water solutions.”

Elumba, whose 30-year experience in industrial water treatment in the Asia-Pacific region is put to good use in the pursuit of the company’s goals, is at the helm of GEW&PT’s Philippine operations. He leads a team of experienced personnel who seek to give specialized solutions, analyze processes and prescribe treatments to their clients’ various water concerns. Constantly nurturing a culture of teamwork, he motivates his people to succeed in their work.

GEW&PT has a commitment to develop and bring to the market, technologies that promote energy efficiency, lower harmful emissions, increase supplies of water and reduce our use of fossil fuel.

“We call these ecomagination. GE’s ecomagination technologies and solutions help customers solve water quality and water scarcity demands,” he added.

Now, GE Water Philippines has a total of 28 employees ready to serve their customers: from the sales team down to field service representatives, customer service staff and senior managers.