Where are the instrument parts manufactured and assembled?
We access parts from all over the world. GE Healthcare has got manufacturing plants in China, Milwaukee, US and in Europe. Within Life Sciences we access a lot of components from different areas but our primary manufacturing plant for instruments is based in Sweden. The majority of our consumables and reagents come out of our site in Cardiff, in the UK. What sort of after sales service packages do you offer? And does the company help install and teach users how to run the instruments optimally? When we do market studies it is clear that we are known for our after sales support. The level of technical support that we can give to our applications rates extraordinarily highly among our users and that is a position we want to maintain. People feel that GE Healthcare Life Sciences staff really know their stuff and understand customer requirements in whatever application is being discussed from sample preparation through drug discovery and biopharmaceutical production. A lot of the support c