On Tuesday, Shares of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), lost -1.07% to $26.85.
GE Healthcare declared that it will be the official medical imaging provider of the 2015 Reebok CrossFit® Games, an annual fitness competition created and operated by CrossFit, Inc. where elite athletes compete for the title of Fittest on Earth® and a piece of a US $2 million purse. The CrossFit Games, now in their ninth year, will be held July 22-26 at The StubHub Center in Carson, CA and broadcast on the ESPN network. The event finals are the culmination of a competitive season that began with more than 272,000 athletes and has been whittled down to the top forty men and women individuals and teams.
The workouts at the Finals change every year, and the details are often not declared until right before each event. Because of this, and comprising with CrossFit’s fitness standards, athletes need to be prepared for the unknown and unknowable. GE Healthcare is proud to make the OEC Brivo Plus C-Arm accessible should they need it. “We are happy to back these athletes by giving them the added security of knowing they’ll have access to our advanced medical imaging technology,” said Gustavo Perez-Fernandez, president & CEO, Surgery, GE Healthcare. “With some of our medical technology readily accessible to trained clinicians on-site, participants will be in good hands.”
During the event Finals, athletes compete in grueling tests that challenge their physical capacity across ten general physical skills, counting cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, agility, coordination, speed, power and strength. Making world-class medical imaging technology accessible to the athletes for the first time during the competition adds to the elite nature of the event. “CrossFit Games athletes compete at a high intensity, and we take their care seriously at our events” said Steve Weiss, Corporate Development for CrossFit, Inc. “We are proud to have GE Healthcare on board to assist raise the bar for supporting these athletes during their quest to be crowned the Fittest on Earth.”
General Electric Company (GE) operates as an infrastructure and financial services company worldwide. The company’s Power and Water segment offers gas, steam and aeroderivative turbines, nuclear reactors, generators, combined cycle systems, controls, and related services; wind turbines; and water treatment services and equipment. Its Oil and Gas segment provides surface and subsea drilling and production systems, equipment for floating production platforms, compressors, turbines, turboexpanders, reactors, industrial power generation, and auxiliary equipment.
Shares of Scorpio Bulkers Inc. (NYSE:SALT), inclined 3.95% to $1.84, during its last trading session.
Scorpio Bulkers, declared that the Company plans to issue its second quarter 2015 earnings before the market open on Tuesday, July 28, 2015 and will host a conference call later in the day at 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time and 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time.
Scorpio Bulkers Inc., together with its auxiliaries, engages in the marine transportation of dry bulk commodities. Its fleet transports a range of major and minor bulk commodities, counting ores, coal, grains, and fertilizers along worldwide shipping routes.
Finally, Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL), ended its last trade with 0.03% gain, and closed at $125.76.
A Pall Aria™ water filtration system is providing clean drinking water to residents of Grande-Saline, a remote village in northwest Haiti. The system was donated by Pall Corporation as part of SUNY Broome’s Health for Haiti program and began providing water to villagers in early March.
The installed system is a smaller version of the robust Pall Aria membrane systems used in municipal water treatment plants around the world. It draws up to 22 gallons of river water per minute, filtering out harmful bacteria and pathogens, counting cholera and Giardia.
Haiti is the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation. SUNY Broome’s Health for Haiti program is a comprehensive, multi-faceted undertaking involving multiple partners, which comprises corporations, local companies, and area residents willing to donate their time, skill, and funds.
Pall Corporation manufactures and markets filtration, separation, and purification products; and integrated systems solutions worldwide. Its Life Sciences segment provides technologies that facilitate the process of drug discovery, development, regulatory validation, and production, which are used in the research laboratories, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and food and beverage industries, in addition to in hospitals.
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