GEA on the upswing globally

GE Aviation, the world’s largest jet-engine maker and with a pair of jet-engine component manufacturing plants in Mississippi, expects to build 3,800 commercial and military aircraft engines in 2014, according to HQ officials in Cincinnati. Next week, GEA is hosting an analysts meeting in conjunction with the 50th International Paris Air Show. The firm also opened a new engine component plant near Auburn, Ala., in April. Source: Cincinnati.com, June 13, 2013.