You will find answers to many common questions below. If you still need answers, or if you want to talk with a GE Water & Process Technologies representative about your specific needs and applications, please Contact Us, or phone someone in your area via the Global Sales Office Locator.

	Q: What industries does GE Water & Process Technologies serve?
	Our water treatment programs are applicable to any industrial, commercial or institutional operation that involves raw water conditioning, boilers, cooling systems, biological controls or wastewater treatment and sludge disposal.
	Process treatment programs are primarily focused on production operations in the chemical, petrochemical, hydrocarbon, automotive, power, primary metals, metal and plastic finishing, pharmaceutical, microelectronics, food and beverage processing and mineral processing industries.

	Q: What are process systems?
	Process systems involve manufacturing and related operations, such as refining oil, producing chemicals and petrochemicals, cleaning, coating and painting metals and plastics, processing food and beverages, transporting coal, milling corn and wheat, casting steel and aluminum, and agglomerating mineral ores.
	GE has treatment programs to improve the efficiency, yield and product quality of these operations, minimize health, safety and environmental problems, and keep equipment running trouble free for longer periods.

	Q: Do you sell only your own products?
	The goal of every GE Water & Process Technologies treatment program is to help our customers improve performance while reducing operating costs. This is usually best achieved using the technologically advanced and patented products that result from the company's intensive research and development activities. If generic products from other suppliers are required, we provide them.

	Q: Does GE Water & Process Technologies manufacture its own products?
	To maintain precise quality control, all of GE's proprietary products are manufactured or blended in one of our production facilities strategically located around the world.

Q: Do you provide your own laboratory services?

All basic research, application engineering, treatment and process system simulation, pilot plant studies and sample analyses are conducted by GE Water & Process Technologies in our own laboratory facilities. Regional laboratory centers are located in North and South America, Europe and Asia-Pacific to provide customers with advanced problem-solving capabilities, high-level analyses of water and deposit samples, metallurgical examinations and much more.