GE Sensing joins with Tamimi to better serve Saudi Arabia region
Partnership will open Sales, Service and Training Centre in Al Khobar

Dammam, Saudi Arabia – May 29, 2007 - GE Sensing and the Tamimi Group are partnering together to form Saudi Arabian Sensing Solutions Co. (SASSCO), which will serve Saudi Arabia and is a further demonstration of GE’s commitment to on-going, significant investment in the Kingdom.

SASSCO is on schedule to unveilits first dedicated calibration, repair and training centre in the Middle East, when its new service centre opens in September 2007. The facility will offer state-of-the-art calibration equipment for pressure and moisture sensors, and will be the only resource in the region capable of calibrating the Panametrics range of moisture meters.

It will also provide on-site repair service for these products and can upgrade existing customer equipment by the fitting of specific manufacturer’s software.

Training from GE Sensing and GE Inspection Technologies will be an important function at the centre. Typical NDT (non-destructive testing) courses will cover the use of GE’s ultrasonic, remote visual inspection, radiography and eddy current equipment. In addition, the centre will provide a base for GE’s qualified field services personnel and will have the capability to carry out basic repairs on simple NDT equipment, such as flaw detectors.

As Brian Hempenstall, Regional Service Manager for GE Sensing, explains, “Saudi is one of the most important oil and petrochemical regions in the world.  This is an industrial sector that relies very heavily on sensing instrumentation for pressure, temperature moisture, gas and flow. It is also an industrial sector where non-destructive testing is critical to safe asset management and to maintaining production outputs. GE Sensing and GE Inspection Technologies is resourced and focused to provide solutions in both these areas of technology. The creation of our new calibration, training and repair facility will ensure that we can now move even closer to our customers in the Kingdom to ensure they receive the very best, both in terms of equipment and service.”