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Cryomech completes construction, relocation to new DeWitt facility
The firm held its groundbreaking ceremony at the 14-acre construction site in early October 2019. Empire State Development (ESD) assisted the expansion with a $600,000

FDA gives Rheonix COVID-19 testing procedure emergency-use authorization
ITHACA, N.Y. — Rheonix Inc. of Ithaca on Monday announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an expanded emergency-use authorization (EUA)

Drone test site in Rome completes second phase of traffic management pilot program
ROME, N.Y. — The New York UAS test site at Griffiss International Airport in Rome has completed the second phase of the Federal Aviation Administration’s

People news: Kong joins SRC as VP of quality
CICERO, N.Y. — SRC Inc. announced it has hired Yuan Kong as vice president of quality. “In this position, Kong and his team will maintain

Microdrones adds United Kingdom firm as distributor
Microdrones announced it has added Drone Pilot Academy of the United Kingdom as a distributor of drone-surveying equipment throughout the UK and Ireland. Microdrones is

New York manufacturing index slips 4 points in November
Reading still indicates slight sector expansion The Empire State Manufacturing Survey general business-conditions index fell 4.2 points to 6.3 in November, “pointing to a slower pace of growth than in October.” This followed a 6.5-point decline in the index in October, which came after a more than 13-point jump in September. The November reading —

NFIB survey finds small manufacturers recovering from COVID-19 impact
Small manufacturers are gradually getting more optimistic as they recover from COVID-19-related business disruptions. That’s just one of the findings in the NFIB Research Center’s latest quarterly Small Business Economic Trends industry-specific survey. The report highlights the construction, manufacturing, retail, and services industries. NFIB released previous reports in August and May 2020. “This year has been

FuzeHub awards Ithaca firm and five others funding in commercialization competition
ITHACA, N.Y. — Del Tocororo LLC of Ithaca, which brews sustainable alcoholic beverages called Norwhey, won $50,000 in the fourth annual FuzeHub commercialization competition. The Ithaca firm is among six New York companies awarded a total of $300,000 in the contest. Besides Del Tocororo, two companies from Rochester, along with businesses from Amherst, New York

New York offering courses on manufacturing, other topics in online platform
Courses in “Generative Design for Additive Manufacturing” and “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Design and Manufacturing Machine Learning” are among the options in a new online-training venue that New York State is offering. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Nov. 17 announced the launch of the free online-training platform. It seeks to help unemployed and underemployed New Yorkers

Lockheed’s Salina plant awarded nearly $23M contract modification
SALINA — Lockheed Martin Corp.’s Salina plant has been awarded a $22.8 million modification to a previously awarded ordering agreement from the U.S. Navy. The award exercises an option to procure 12 retrofit advanced-radar processor systems for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft, according to a Nov. 16 U.S. Defense Department contract announcement. The work to
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