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Electronics recycler plans Earth Day event to kick off 2nd year in business
DeWITT — Not quite one year after forming their electronics recycling company, Patrick Duffy and Scott Seymour are enjoying their 2012 successes, carving out their 2013 goals, and looking forward to Earth Day as they work to continue to spread the word about electronics recycling. Their business, Coast 2 Coast Electronic Recyclers, Inc., will celebrate […]
Onondaga Lake cleanup progresses
SYRACUSE — Envision hiking and biking trails, a boat rental company, and even a beach and some swimming. All could one day be an option in and around Onondaga Lake as a $1 billion cleanup project continues. For more than 125 years, industrial and chemical operations disposed myriad pollutants into the 4.6-square-mile lake, including mercury
Long-time Novelis employee to take helm at Oswego plant
OSWEGO — The Novelis plant in Oswego has a new manager. Chris Smith, a 28-year veteran of Novelis, was most recently global director for automotive
Clarkson gets $150K gift from Turner Construction
POTSDAM — Turner Construction Co. of New York City is donating $150,000 to Clarkson University to support the school’s construction engineering management program. Turner employs
BLDC gets $250K state grant for downtown Binghamton improvements
BINGHAMTON — The Binghamton Local Development Corporation (BLDC) announced today that it received $250,000 in funding through the 2012 NYS Main Street Grant Program for
EFC awards $3M no-interest loan for expansion of Sauquoit Creek Pump Station
SAUQUOIT — The New York State Environmental Facilities Corp. (EFC) board has approved a $3 million short-term, interest-free loan for complete engineering services in the
VIP closing in on Tim Hortons for Pike Block
SYRACUSE — The Pike Block development in downtown Syracuse is finalizing a lease with Tim Hortons Cafe & Bake Shop. VIP Development Associates, the development
Johnstone Supply prepares for move to larger space
SYRACUSE — The Syracuse Johnstone Supply location plans to relocate in the next few weeks to a larger space that will give it more room
Global fruit-prep firm to build $50M Lysander plant, create 120 jobs
LYSANDER — Agrana Fruit US, Inc., which produces fruit preparations for the dairy industry, plans to invest more than $50 million to build a fruit-processing plant in Lysander that will create about 120 jobs, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office announced today.Agrana expects to break ground on the new 100,000-square-foot manufacturing and distribution plant in
Upstate Shredding to grow 29 percent in 2013
OWEGO — Upstate Shredding, LLC., the largest, privately owned scrap dealer on the East Coast, is projecting it will continue its fast-growing ways this year with nearly 30 percent revenue growth. One of the drivers of that growth will be the company’s recent move in Albany. Upstate Shredding, headquartered at 299 Corporate Drive in Owego,
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