• Headquartered in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA, GE Plastics is a division of General Electric, the world's largest diversified manufacturing, technology and services company with $110 billion in revenues.
• Sales for GE Plastics in 1999 were $6.9 billion.
• GE Plastics offers high performance materials - from plastics and silicones to industrial diamonds and phosphite additives - to customers worldwide.
• GE Plastics has more than 40 plant sites and joint-venture facilities, 19 technology and application development centers and more than 50 sales and service offices in 19 countries around the world. And those numbers grow all the time.
• GE Plastics employees are involved in community service activities around the world through the Elfun Society, a volunteer organization of GE leaders.

Industries served by the combined businesses of GE Plastics include:
• Aerospace• Appliance
• Automotive• Building & Construction
• Computers• Data Storage & Media
• Electrical• Electronics
• Furnishings• Machine Tool
• Medical• Outdoor Vehicles & Devices
• Packaging • Personal Care
• Telecommunications

Serving such a range of industries requires a diverse group of material businesses. GE Plastics is comprised of the following components:
 
• Resins - With regional headquarters in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA; Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands; and Tokyo, the resins component offers a range of high performance engineering thermoplastics that combine mechanical strength, color stability, and resistance to heat, impact, corrosion and flame. The business also manufactures and markets circuit board prepregs, and structural glazing and high performance graphic and insulating films, made from LEXAN® polycarbonate. The resins business also includes GE Polymerland, a distributor of GE Plastics materials, other name-brand engineering resins, specialty polymers, commodities and remanufactured resins from leading manufacturers. GE Polymerland is headquartered in Huntersville, North Carolina, USA.
• GE Silicones - Headquartered in Waterford, New York, USA, GE Silicones manufactures a unique family of materials including adhesives, sealants, fluids, resins and elastomers. GE has been issued over 2,000 U.S. patents relating to silicones.
• GE Superabrasives - GE Superabrasives produced the first industrial diamonds in 1955. It remains a leader in manufacturing diamond, cubic boron nitride and polycrystalline products for the metalworking, stone, concrete, mining and woodworking industries. GE Superabrasives is headquartered in Worthington, Ohio, USA, and maintains offices in 25 countries around the world.
• GE Specialty Chemicals - GESC, the world's largest manufacturer of phosphites, is headquartered in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. The company manufactures a wide selection of phosphites, phosphite antioxidants and modifier resins, which are used as additives for high performance polymers, polyolefins, PVC and elastomers.
• GE Petrochemicals - With headquarters in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA, GE Petrochemicals is a major supplier of styrene monomer to manufacturers of polystyrene products, rubbers, plastics, coatings and printing inks. These products are manufactured at Carville, Louisiana, USA, in a joint venture with Fina.

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