GE Silicones Expands E-commerce Capability With Introduction of New Web Site for Custom Elastomers.Business Editors WATERFORD Waterford, county, Republic of Ireland Waterford (wô`tərfərd), county (1991 pop. 91,624), 710 sq mi (1,839 sq km), S Republic of Ireland. The county seat is the port town of Waterford. , N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2001 GE Silicones (GE) today announced the introduction of its new e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. web site for custom compounded elastomers, GECustomElastomers.com. The new web site is the first in the silicones industry to offer comprehensive online services for materials research, product design, and order placement for custom compounded elastomers. "GECustomElastomers.com is a completely new way of doing business in this industry," notes Jeff Welde, elastomers business leader for GE Silicones. "Customers now have direct, personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. access to the critical tools and business processes needed to specify, sample and purchase custom silicone silicone, polymer in which atoms of silicon and oxygen alternate in a chain; various organic radicals, such as the methyl group, CH3, are bound to the silicon atoms. elastomers." The development of GECustomElastomers.com is the latest investment by GE in the custom silicone elastomers market. In August of 2000, GE announced the purchase of American Silicones, Inc. (ASi), a highly respected custom compounder of silicone elastomers in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . ASi is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of GE, integrated with GE Silicones custom compounding operations in Chino, California Chino is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. The population was 67,168 at the 2000 census. Chino and its surroundings have long been a center of dairy farming, serving the considerable demands for milk products in Southern California and much of the . Tom Lapsley, president of ASi, says, "We are in business to bring the best custom compounding services to this industry. With GECustomElastomers.com, we are adding innovative e-commerce capability to our customer offering." Adds Jack Cochrane, Vice President of the new subsidiary, "We expect GECustomElastomers.com to accelerate the pace in our delivery of productivity, quality and innovation to our customers. This is a powerful new asset in combination with our recognized strengths in custom formulation formulation /for·mu·la·tion/ (for?mu-la´shun) the act or product of formulating. American Law Institute Formulation and base elastomers technology." GECustomElastomers.com is the latest in a series of e-commerce innovations from GE Silicones. The Company's industry-leading MySilicones(TM) ordering suite, available through GESilicones.com, offers unparalleled online service for silicones customers in the Americas, Europe and the Pacific. Customers worldwide are now able to research technical solutions encompassing all of GE Silicones' products and services, in addition to finding and purchasing products produced by GE Silicones Americas, GE Bayer Silicones and GE Toshiba Silicones. The pioneering system offers 24-hour, seven-day-a-week customer service, availability and product order tracking. GE Silicones, a $1.4 billion operating division of GE Plastics, is a global manufacturer of silicones with its headquarters in Waterford, NY. It has 3,500 employees and manufactures over 4,000 products sold into many major markets, including automotive, consumer retail, building and construction, healthcare, electrical/electronics, personal care, utility and textiles. Its web site is www.gesilicones.com. |
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