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GE ADVANCED MATERIALS LAUNCHES LINE OF SILBREAK* DEMULSIFIERS FOR QUICK, CLEAN SEPARATION OF CRUDE OIL
11 April 2005 - GE Advanced Materials
| GE Advanced Materials has launched the Silbreak silicone product offering, a new demulsifier technology that may enable the oil industry to exploit sources of crude that were once considered economically unattractive. |
The global thirst for energy, and specifically crude oil, continues to grow, and as the cost and availability of this precious resource increases, oil companies are under pressure to find new sources and technologies to enhance production yields. To help, GE Advanced Materials has launched the Silbreak silicone product offering, a new demulsifier technology that may enable the oil industry to exploit sources of crude that were once considered economically unattractive. Long under-explored, the science of crude oil demulsification is now gaining momentum, and GE’s new family of silicone-based Silbreak demulsifiers offers tangible benefits to end users, such as:
• A higher speed of separation than competitive offerings;
• More complete separation, reducing the salt content of separated crude;
• A leaner, sharper interface between the crude and water phases, resulting in dryer crude oil and cleaner water;
• Durable, long-lasting performance; and
• A potentially more competitive cost/performance ratio than many competitive products. Silbreak demulsifiers may offer new options for customers to differentiate their product offerings, access new fields, and obtain improved levels of performance from the crude they obtain. “GE Advanced Materials recognizes the emerging challenges and opportunities for crude oil demulsification,” said S.J. Hull, leader of field market development, Oil & Gas, GE Advanced Materials. “And we are committed to developing a range of superior demulsifiers to meet these challenges and maximize the competitiveness of our customers.” GE Advanced Materials anticipates increased use of Silbreak demulsifiers in many areas where customers need quick, clear separation of two phases such as water and oil (for example mineral oil, silicone oil, or crude oil).
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About: GE Advanced Materials
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. Among its businesses are:• 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 (http://www.gesilicones.com/gesilicones/am1/en/home.jsp); • Plastics is a global plastics materials supplier and distributor, which serves customers in a variety of industries including aerospace, appliances, automotive, building and construction, data storage and optical media, medical, electrical and electronics devices, telecommunications, computers and peripheral devices, outdoor vehicles and devices, and packaging (http://www.geplastics.com/); • Quartz produces high purity materials for the semiconductor, fiber optic, lamp making and water purification industries. GE Quartz is a leading supplier of quartz materials to the semiconductor industry (http://www.gequartz.com/en/index.htm); Established in 1968, GE Advanced Materials’ Specialty Film & Sheet business is a leading supplier of high-performance engineering film and sheet products to the United States, Europe, Africa, India, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and operates a worldwide network of sales, research, manufacturing and technical services facilities. Today, GE Advanced Materials, Specialty Film & Sheet employs about 600 people, and manufactures engineering sheet and film products at 12 facilities in 9 countries worldwide. Recent investments:
• 2003 New Roofing Structures Line in Italy, Europe
• 2003 New Coating Lines in China & Malaysia, Pacific
• 2002 Acquisition of Plastech, China
• 2001 New Film Lines in USA and Europe
• 2001 Acquisition of Carboron, Malaysia
• 2000 Acquisition of Matraplast, Canada
• 2000 Acquisition of Nim Plastics, USA Products:
GE Advanced Materials offers a variety of film materials are to meet different type of applications such as graphic film, coated products, electrical & electronic products, and specialties. The key film materials available today include:
• Lexan* Polycarbonate film
• Ultem* film
• Lexan* SLX film
• Valox* film
• Lexan* Illuminex* film GE Advanced Materials’ sheet product line includes a wide range of structures from solid sheet, multi-wall sheet and corrugated sheet through to coated sheet and laminates and combinations of each of these. The key sheet materials available today include:
• Lexan* Polycarbonate sheet
• Lexan* Solar Control IR sheet
• Margard* coated sheet
• Lexgard* laminated sheet
• Ultem* sheet
• Lexan EXL* sheet GE Advanced Materials, Specialty Film & Sheet, serves customers in a variety of industries including aircraft, appliances, automotive, building and construction, business machines, electrical & lighting, furnishing, greenhouse, industrial roofing, medical, electrical and electronics devices, telecommunications and packaging. In January 2004, in line with GE Corporate’ new brand architecture, GE Advanced Materials has announced the change of GE Structured Products business naming to GE Advanced Materials, Specialty Film & Sheet. |
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