Steven Zwolinski, CEO of GTE, said: “This is an important and natural expansion of GTE’s portfolio of offerings. The extensive experience and track record of the team is important because the service is technically complex and is on the customer’s project critical path.
“Every gas turbine, regardless of application or geography, requires this service at regular intervals. The new service strengthens commercial relationships with existing and new customers because it is a service that is deployed on their site, at regular recurring maintenance intervals. The new offering has been well received by GTE’s existing customers with new incremental orders for 2009 and has commitments in backlog for 2010.”
GTE said that its knowledge and understanding of gas turbines combined with the capabilities of the new business will help power producers minimize risk, manage costs, maintain energy production and improve productivity in their power plants.
John Duff, incoming president of GTE’s Turbine Services, said: “This expanded team, backed by the extensive technical and engineering depth of the organization, is uniquely positioned to provide high quality power plant major outage execution and to enable the delivery of GTE’s innovative solutions to equipment problems and alternatives for improved equipment performance and reliability.”
The turbine services group includes a technical advisory and field supervisory staff with combined experience of more than 200 years of industry expertise in combustion turbine assembly, field services relating to gas and steam turbines, engineering and operations management, and combustion turbine assembly.
GTE designs, manufactures and supplies cleantech energy saving solutions to the power generation, oil & gas and aviation industries.
