GE Advanced Materials Fact Sheet

GE Advanced Materials is a world leader in providing materials solutions through engineering thermoplastics, silicone-based products and technology platforms, and fused quartz and ceramics. Headquartered in Pittsfield, Mass., GE Advanced Materials is the combination of GE’s former Plastics, Silicones, and Quartz businesses.

Plastics is a leading global manufacturer and distributor of plastics resins used in a number of industries including automotive, computers, telecommunications, appliances, optical media, packaging, and building and construction. Plastics manufactures and compounds polycarbonate, ABS, SAN, ASA, PPE, PC/ABS, PBT, and PEI resins. Plastics also includes Specialty Film & Sheet, a global leader in the manufacture of high-performance Lexan* sheet and film products used in thousands of applications and industries from building and construction to signs to telecommunications; LNP* brand of specialty compounds; and Polymershapes, a leading global distributor of plastic sheet, rod, tube, and film (www.geplastics.com).

Silicones, which includes GE Toshiba Silicones in the Pacific region and GE Bayer Silicones in Europe, offers silanes, specialty silicones, urethane additives, adhesives, sealants, resins, and elastomers for a variety of industries such as personal care, automotive, tire and rubber, construction, healthcare, electronics, household and institutional, agriculture, textiles, appliances, bedding and furnishings, foam control, and consumer (www.gesilicones.com).

Quartz is a world leader in the development and manufacture of fused quartz materials and products for the semi-conductor, fiber optic, and lighting industries. GE fused quartz materials are used in a variety of processes requiring elevated temperature operation, ultra-high purity application, and specific wavelength transmission. Clear and translucent tubing, rod, and other solid shapes, and fused crucibles for growing single-crystal silicon are just some of the diverse product lines supplied by Quartz. GE fused quartz products are supplied directly to OEMs or through a GE authorized network of fabricated quartzware.

Quartz also includes advanced ceramics, a leading producer of boron nitride and titanium diboride powders, hot pressed boron nitride and composite shapes, boron nitride coatings, and pyrolytic boron nitride and graphite products for use in semiconductor, electronic materials, personal care, materials processing, and other advanced technology applications (www.gequartz.com).

GE Advanced Materials has approximately 15,000 employees at 70 locations in 20 countries.

* Lexan and LNP are trademarks of General Electric Company.

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