GE cleantech sales to top $17bn this year

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Company claims sales of "Ecomagination" products are soaring, despite slowing economy

US engineering giant General Electric (GE) has announced that revenue from its cleantech products will rise 21 per cent to $17bn (£10.9bn) in 2008, arguing that sales of environmental technologies could...

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