Wednesday, September 16, 2020

GE Healthcare to West Milwaukee: Going Home

In the Olden Days, there was a GE X-Ray.  It was located in West Milwaukee (although its earliest days were in Chicago.  They moved outta there--who could blame them?)

...Greater production capacity and greater expertise was needed in the core business of building X-ray tubes. Since the tubes were made from hand-blown glass, the decision was made to move the company 90 miles north to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in order to tap into the enormous amount of glass-blowing talent in Milwaukee's beer-brewing industry. The company moved from Jackson Blvd. in Chicago to a 43-acre (170,000 m2) site in the city of West Milwaukee, which had been used for building turbochargers during the war. The street in front was renamed Electric Avenue, and the General Electric X-Ray Corporation had a new home in 1947....

Next came GE Medical and the move to Waukesha.......and now the move back. 

GE Healthcare would invest $50 million in a new plant in West Milwaukee to make CT scanners and other products that eventually could employ more than 1,200 people as part of a proposed plan to consolidate its operations in Wisconsin....

The circle of life, or something.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I look forward to Milwaukee Democrats manufacturing reasons to piss all over those new jobs.