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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TAST) has added to its presence in Indiana and Michigan with the purchase of 19 Burger King restaurants. Syracuse–based Carrols is one of the largest restaurant franchisees in North America. It is the largest Burger King franchisee in the U.S. “These 19 restaurants, which were acquired in […]

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Ithaca College preps for leadership transition

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ITHACA, N.Y. — Ithaca College is preparing for a leadership transition as the school’s provost and executive VP will become interim president, effective Aug. 30. The Ithaca College board of trustees has appointed La Jerne Terry Cornish to role for the entirety of the 2021-22 academic year. Current school president Shirley Collado has accepted a

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ITHACA, N.Y. — Ithaca College is preparing for a leadership transition as the school’s provost and executive VP will become interim president, effective Aug. 30.

The Ithaca College board of trustees has appointed La Jerne Terry Cornish to role for the entirety of the 2021-22 academic year.

Current school president Shirley Collado has accepted a job as president and CEO of College Track, which is described as a college-completion program, effective on Jan. 10, 2022.

Before she departs, Collado will assume the role of senior advisor to the interim president and the board of trustees of Ithaca College through Dec. 31, 2021, “helping to ensure a smooth and successful transition” for Provost Cornish as well as working on projects that are currently in-process to help advance the college’s strategic plan, Ithaca College said.

In a message to the campus community, David Lissy, who chairs the board of trustees and vice chair Jim Nolan “expressed confidence” in Cornish’s ability to lead the college during the coming year. They noted that since her appointment as provost in 2018, Cornish has played a “significant role” in partnering with Collado on decision-making processes related to the overall direction of the institution.

“She steered the development and implementation of the Ithaca Forever strategic plan and helped ensure that students and faculty were able to successfully navigate the challenges of the pandemic this past academic year — one of the most challenging in the college’s history,” they wrote. “We are very confident that the strong and steady leadership that she has already demonstrated, in concert with an accomplished and dedicated senior leadership team, will provide the continuity and momentum that will serve the college well as we continue to achieve forward progress.”

Cornish said that she is honored to be given this opportunity.

“I want to thank the board of trustees for placing its trust in me and in our leadership team, and I look forward to working on behalf of our students, faculty, and staff to maintain the positive trajectory generated by the launch of our strategic plan,” said Cornish. “I also want to thank President Collado for establishing such a solid foundation from which to advance this important work.”

On behalf of the board of trustees, Lissy and Nolan offered their congratulations to Collado on her new appointment at College Track and expressed their “deepest appreciation” for her service to Ithaca College over the past four years.

Co-founded in 1997 by philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, Oakland, California–based College Track works in collaboration with the nearby Emerson Collective to remove the academic, financial, and social-emotional barriers that keep first-generation students from low-income communities from completing college and thriving in the workforce, as described in an Ithaca College news release.

Pathfinder Bancorp to pay second-quarter dividend of 7 cents a share

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OSWEGO, N.Y. — Pathfinder Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: PBHC), holding company for Pathfinder Bank, recently declared a quarterly cash dividend of 7 cents per share on its common stock for the fiscal quarter ending June 30. The dividend will be payable to all Pathfinder shareholders of record on July 16 and will be paid on Aug.

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SU buys the Marshall complex as part of new housing strategy

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse University’s acquisition of the Marshall student-housing complex is part of the university’s new housing strategy. The new approach, which follows the completion of a “comprehensive” housing review that began in 2019, “prioritizes student feedback and seeks to meet the needs of today’s undergraduate and graduate students,” Syracuse said in a July

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse University’s acquisition of the Marshall student-housing complex is part of the university’s new housing strategy.

The new approach, which follows the completion of a “comprehensive” housing review that began in 2019, “prioritizes student feedback and seeks to meet the needs of today’s undergraduate and graduate students,” Syracuse said in a July 9 news release.

“Ultimately, the review process and development of the housing strategy are the first of many steps in a multi-year process,” Amir Rahnamay-Azar, senior VP for business, finance and administrative services and CFO, said. “The housing strategy is a roadmap for the university and will guide housing decisions for years to come.”

The university’s purchase of the Marshall begins “the process of fulfilling the goals set out in the housing review,” per its release.

Syracuse bought the towering student-housing complex at 727 South Crouse Avenue from a firm whose principals know the campus well.

Elmwood Park, New Jersey–based Aptitude Development announced the sale of the Marshall, per a separate news release. It didn’t include financial details, including the price Syracuse University paid to buy the complex.

Syracuse University graduates Jared Hutter and Brian Rosen are the co-founders of Aptitude Development. Hutter and Rosen started their business by building in Syracuse, “purposefully” constructing their first two projects within the campus to “invest in and give back to the school that fostered their original idea” of developing student housing, per the release.

“We are proud Syracuse alumni and we hope that the university takes pride in our collective story and that it helps inspire current students to pursue careers in development,” Rosen, principal at Aptitude, said. “We will leave the market in Syracuse knowing we left it in a better place than we found it and that future generations will benefit.”

The Marshall opened in 2018 and is named after the well-known street located just south of the complex. It was built on the site of what Aptitude Development described as a “dilapidated strip mall.”

It now houses almost 300 students and has businesses that include Five Guys and Kung Fu Tea, the developer said.

The Marshall is the second building Aptitude has sold in the Syracuse area. The first building, UPoint at 404 University Ave., was sold to Austin, Texas–based American Campus Communities (NYSE: ACC) in 2016.

“Marking the end of an era spent in the Syracuse area following the sale of the Marshall,” Aptitude Development says it is already expanding to markets across the U.S. The firm has also opened multiple projects at the University of Louisville, Coastal Carolina University, and the University of Arkansas. It also has construction projects in progress in Ithaca and in Birmingham, Alabama with “more than 10,000 beds on its drawing board from New York to California.”

Aptitude Development tells CNYBJ that the project in Ithaca is called the Ithacan and will serve students from Cornell University and Ithaca College.

Innovare Advancement Center in Rome operates as accelerator for AI, cyber, UAS

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ROME, N.Y. — A facility that’s described as an “open innovation hub” is now open to the public. Innovare Advancement Center (IAC) in Rome is a talent and technology accelerator for artificial intelligence/machine learning, cyber, quantum, and unmanned-aircraft systems (UAS). The IAC is a partnership between the Griffiss Institute, the Air Force Research Laboratory Information

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ROME, N.Y. — A facility that’s described as an “open innovation hub” is now open to the public.

Innovare Advancement Center (IAC) in Rome is a talent and technology accelerator for artificial intelligence/machine learning, cyber, quantum, and unmanned-aircraft systems (UAS).

The IAC is a partnership between the Griffiss Institute, the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate (AFRL/RI), which is also known locally as Rome Lab, New York State, Oneida County, the City of Rome, NYSTEC, and SUNY.

The facility at the Griffiss International Airport will bring together scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs from academia, industry, and the U.S. Department of Defense to collaborate on technology projects.

“I am thrilled to finally unveil Innovare Advancement Center to the public. We have been the Mohawk Valley’s best kept secret since the Griffiss Institute quietly moved into this innovative space this winter, working in close partnership with Oneida County and Rome Lab to prepare to welcome international scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs to collaborate with us as soon as it became safe,” Heather Hage, president and CEO of Griffiss Institute, said in a release. “Today, with over 300 collaborators in service with the GI, we finally get to show off all that Innovare has to offer the tech community. I am so excited to be a part of this great organization and team, and the GI is committed to do all we can to grow Innovare as a global destination for scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs to collaborate as we educate, innovate, integrate and elevate the next generation of technology leaders, right here in the Mohawk Valley.”

The IAC on July 8 held a formal-opening ceremony. The day’s activities included an Invest NY program that focused on entrepreneurs in aerospace and defense.

“All across the world, innovation and collaboration are becoming synonymous with Oneida County,” Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente, Jr. said. “The investment the county and its partners have made in the Griffiss Business & Technology Park is paying off huge dividends for the City of Rome and the region at large, and the Innovare Advancement Center is the epitome of that success. This facility will serve as hub to produce revolutionary research from those on the forefront of cutting-edge technology. Together with Rome Lab, Griffiss Institute and SUNY Poly, we will entrench ourselves as a trailblazer in the emerging field of Quantum Information Science and spur economic development that will feed our robust high-tech economy.”

Described as a 150,000-square-foot “open innovation hub,” IAC’s capabilities include highly specialized laboratories for experimentation in quantum and neuromorphic computing; 40,000 square feet, across two floors, of collaboration spaces; an auditorium with capacity for more than 250 people; and a “first in the nation,” New York State funded 50-mile drone corridor for advanced unmanned aircraft operations.

In addition — coming in the spring of 2022 — an indoor sUAS research and testing facility with a 22,500-square-foot indoor flight-testing area, which will be the “largest in the United States.”

“I’m delighted to represent AFRL in celebrating this milestone of how vision, persistent leadership and teamwork have created a new engine for growing talent, catalyzing partnerships, and delivering solutions that will benefit not just the Air Force and Space Force but the nation as a whole,” Timothy Sakulich, executive director of the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, said. He provided the keynote address during the formal-opening ceremony.

Finland firm sets up North American HQ at SU’s CASE Center

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A company founded in Helsinki, Finland has established its North American headquarters at the Center for Advanced Systems and Engineering (CASE) at Syracuse University. Launched in 2017, NSION Technologies Inc. has established operations at the CASE business incubator. NSION Technologies provides situational awareness and secure communications channels with live-data transmission through encrypted-management

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A company founded in Helsinki, Finland has established its North American headquarters at the Center for Advanced Systems and Engineering (CASE) at Syracuse University.

Launched in 2017, NSION Technologies Inc. has established operations at the CASE business incubator. NSION Technologies provides situational awareness and secure communications channels with live-data transmission through encrypted-management platforms, while utilizing equipment owned by the users, as described in a Syracuse University news release.

“When a second is a lifetime, NSION Technologies provides secure data for split second responder decision-making,” George Davis, VP of systems integration at the company, said. “CASE offered the perfect mix of connectivity to Syracuse University faculty and student talent, a location on the main campus, and great office space with access to a variety of testing equipment. With the support of CASE, we see great growth potential for our company.”

NSION says it is building global operations with offices in the U.S., Finland, Australia, and “more to come,” per the release.

NSION contends that its technology NSC3 system improves the efficiency of mission-critical operations by streaming and storing live video from drones, phones, vehicles and other sources to command-and-control room to mobile devices in the field. NSC3 technology supports any camera, any platform, and is functional in any network. All of them improve the situational-awareness needs by optimizing data security and speed in data transfer, even in complex, life-critical situations, the company notes.

“We are truly excited that NSION Technologies decided to make Syracuse its North American headquarters at our CASE Center,” Pramod Varshney, director of the CASE Center said. “The opportunities of NSION’s platform are virtually endless, and a perfect fit for our UAV/UAS cluster in CNY, and we look forward to connecting NSION to our extraordinary talented researchers, as well as our economic development partners in the region.”

CASE is a NYSTAR-designated Center for Advanced Technology. It provides businesses from a range of industry sectors with expertise in all aspects of “big data,” including data mining and analytics, information fusion, predictive analysis, cybersecurity, autonomy, drones, and the “internet of things,” Syracuse University says.

NY MEP generated nearly $1B in economic impact in 2020

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ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NY MEP) says it helped create or retain 6,637 jobs and generate $994 million in financial impacts such as company cost savings, new investments, and increased or retained sales. NY MEP is a statewide network of 11 organizations that provide growth and innovation services to small-

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NY MEP is a statewide network of 11 organizations that provide growth and innovation services to small- and mid-sized manufacturers.

The network on July 13 announced its economic impact for 2020, describing it as a “challenging yet transformative year for the manufacturing industry.”

The economic-impact information is based on data from the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NIST MEP), the federal agency that administers the national MEP program. The data combines performance metrics from each of the 11 NY MEP centers.

“As New York’s manufacturers confronted uncertainty, adversity, and disruption amid the pandemic, the NY MEP network stepped up in a big way. Each of the centers was tireless in its work to help manufacturers overcome challenges, pivot to new products, adopt new technologies and scale innovative ideas,” Matt Watson, senior VP of NYSTAR, said. “By deploying NYSTAR funding, providing direct assistance and helping companies navigate NYSTAR’s robust network of over 70 innovation assets, the NY MEP centers delivered a massive economic impact in 2020, measuring at nearly $1 billion and over 6,600 jobs.

NYSTAR — Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation — oversees the NY MEP, which brings together 10 regional centers and one statewide center, Albany–based FuzeHub.

The NY MEP centers serve as “go-to” resources for local manufacturers that are seeking support or assistance. Services available through the NY MEP include innovation, process and quality improvement, product development, scale-up, tech acceleration, cybersecurity assistance, research commercialization, sustainable manufacturing, technology-driven market intelligence, marketing, and supply-chain assistance.

In New York state, manufacturers employ 419,478 people, which represents a payroll of about $38 billion in manufacturing-worker earnings. The industry produces an economic output of $84.4 billion, NY MEP said.

Beyond the statewide center, FuzeHub, the regional NY MEP centers include TDO in Salina, which serves Central New York; Mohawk Valley Community College’s Advanced Institute for Manufacturing (AIM) in Utica, which assists the Mohawk Valley; Alliance for Manufacturing & Technology (AM&T) in the town of Dickinson, which serves the Southern Tier; CITEC at Clarkson University in Potsdam, which helps the North Country; and NextCorps in Rochester, which serves the Finger Lakes region.

Additional NY MEP centers include the Center for Economic Growth (CEG) in the Capital Region, Insyte Consulting in Western New York, ITAC in New York City, Manufacturing and Technology Resource Consortium (MTRC) on Long Island, and Manufacturing & Technology Enterprise Center (MTEC) in the Mid-Hudson region.

The 11 NY MEP centers are among the more than 70 NYSTAR-backed centers across the state “working to generate technology-driven economic growth,” per the release. This statewide network of innovation assets provides entrepreneurs, researchers, and business leaders with access to the support, assistance, and resources to solve business challenges, develop and scale new technologies, start companies, and grow existing businesses.

Genius NY program to select five finalists for this year’s competition

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Genius NY program is working to select five finalists from a group of 13 semifinalists that it announced June 29. Genius NY is a business-accelerator program at CenterState CEO’s Tech Garden. Genius NY stands for Growing ENtrepreneurs & Innovators in UpState New York. The program selected the companies from a pool

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Genius NY program is working to select five finalists from a group of 13 semifinalists that it announced June 29.

Genius NY is a business-accelerator program at CenterState CEO’s Tech Garden. Genius NY stands for Growing ENtrepreneurs & Innovators in UpState New York.

The program selected the companies from a pool of nearly 600 submissions from more than 50 countries, CenterState CEO said.

Of the 13 semifinalists, five teams are from across New York state and five are international teams representing Germany, Israel, Poland, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, respectively.

The firms involved are focused on sectors that include unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), internet of things (IoT), and big data industries.

The semifinalists listed alphabetically are:

• Airial Robotics (Hamburg, Germany)

• Airtonomy (Grand Forks, North Dakota)

• Airwayz (Tel Aviv, Israel)

• Birdstop (San Francisco, California)

• CarScanner (Krakow, Poland)

• Circle Optics (Rochester, N.Y.)

• Fusion Engineering (Delft, Netherlands)

• Organic Robotics (Rochester, N.Y.)

• Reign Maker (New York City)

• Robodub (Buffalo, N.Y.)

• SmartSpace AI (Costa Mesa, California)

• Voltela (New York City)

• Windshape (Geneva, Switzerland)

A Genius NY panel of executive advisers interviewed the companies and will select five finalists for entry into the Genius NY program.

Judges are looking for businesses that will stay in the Central New York region and utilize “the ecosystem,” will scale and be successful, represent diversity of technology focus, and team makeup, CenterState CEO said.

The finalists will arrive in Central New York this summer and begin establishing their businesses at the Tech Garden in downtown Syracuse.

The program will hold its “Finals Night” in late fall, where teams will compete live by pitching their technologies to a panel of judges for the $1 million grand prize investment. The remaining four teams will each receive a $500,000 investment.

After acquisition, Rochester firm to expand fiber network across Southern Tier

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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — With its recent acquisition of Plexicomm, LLC, Rochester–based Greenlight Networks believes it now has the platform to expand its fiber network across the Southern Tier. The firm plans to provide high-speed fiber internet to 30,000 homes in the region by the end of 2022. Greenlight Networks on June 30 held a news

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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — With its recent acquisition of Plexicomm, LLC, Rochester–based Greenlight Networks believes it now has the platform to expand its fiber network across the Southern Tier.

The firm plans to provide high-speed fiber internet to 30,000 homes in the region by the end of 2022.

Greenlight Networks on June 30 held a news conference in Binghamton to announce the completion of its acquisition of Plexicomm, a Binghamton–based internet-service provider.

Greenlight Networks describes itself as the “fastest fiber-to-the-home provider in New York State,” per its news release. It didn’t provide any financial details of its acquisition agreement in the news release.

Founded in 2003, Plexicomm was the first company to bring residential fiber to the area and grew to become a regional leader with service available to more than 5,000 homes and hundreds of businesses.

Greenlight plans to invest $25 million to enhance and expand this high-speed fiber optic network to additional neighborhoods and communities throughout Binghamton and across the Broome and Tioga County areas, the acquiring company said.

“We are excited to finalize the acquisition of Plexicomm and announce an investment that represents a strategic opportunity to bring New York’s fastest Internet to my hometown of Binghamton,” Greenlight CEO Mark Murphy, a Binghamton native, said. “Born and raised in this town, with friends and family still here, I have an affinity and appreciation for this community. We welcome the quality people and the valuable network infrastructure Plexicomm has built over the past 17 years into the Greenlight team and will quickly be growing our workforce and network reach in the Binghamton area.”

All 13 Plexicomm employees have transitioned to roles within Greenlight Networks. The acquired staff increases Greenlight’s employee count to 114, the company tells CNYBJ in an email message. The company plans to add an additional 25 positions across its business by the end of 2022 to support growth plans in the Southern Tier region.

Greenlight’s network expansion in the area will be led by Plexicomm’s founder Dan English, who has assumed the position of Greater Binghamton region general manager for Greenlight.

“Greenlight is dedicated to revolutionizing how customers connect and use the Internet, while making it cost friendly and as efficient as possible,” English said. “When the opportunity for Plexicomm to partner with Greenlight presented itself, it made perfect sense. This partnership means accelerated expansion in Binghamton, reaching more potential customers that are eager for high-speed Internet services, in addition to benefiting the community in other ways including job creation.”

Greenlight Networks launched in Rochester in 2011. Businessman and philanthropist Tom Golisano acquired a controlling interest in Greenlight Networks in mid-2018. Since then, Greenlight has tripled its staff and brought high-speed fiber internet to more than 50,000 homes in 14 municipalities. The company “builds, owns and operates” its fiber-optic networks, per its news release.

FuzeHub manufacturing grants boost area projects

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“In the current climate, the Jeff Lawrence Innovation Fund Manufacturing Grant awards are a vital resource to the companies that are supported in these projects” Elena Garuc, executive director of FuzeHub, said in a release. “The awards are allowing companies to stimulate the economy and further bolster manufacturing in [New York State].” Jeff Lawrence, who

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Jeff Lawrence, who died in 2015, was a top executive at the Albany–based Center for Economic Growth, the MEP Center for the Capital Region, and a supporter of New York manufacturing and entrepreneurial communities, according to FuzeHub.

Regional grant recipients

Cornell University Institute of Biotechnology / Inso Biosciences $50,000

Inso Biosciences Inc. is a startup from Cornell University and a client company of Cornell’s Kevin M. McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences incubator.

Inso is developing a technology platform — originally invented at Cornell University — that can automate sample preparation for subsequent DNA sequencing or optical-mapping analysis.

As “first generation” prototypes, Inso’s proprietary microfluidic systems extracted, purified, and prepared nucleic acids with speed and accuracy far superior to current standard manual methods. The goal of Inso’s FuzeHub project is to fund design and prototyping of “second generation” devices, associated controls and packaging. This would enable scale-up of manufacturing for initial Inso commercial sales to early adopters and “beta” testers.

Binghamton University, Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing (CAMM) / Aincobio LLC $50,000

In this project, the Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing (CAMM) at Binghamton University and Aincobio LLC, based in Syracuse, are teaming up to produce new additively printed, conductive-ink microelectronic biosensors capable of quantifying the antibiotic resistance of bacterial pathogens in less than one hour.

Bacterial infections that spread into the bloodstream can be lethal in a few hours, but current lab tests used to determine the most effective antibiotic drug(s) can take two to five days. This time delay contributes to high rates of mortality and morbidity, and often makes bloodstream infections one of the most expensive conditions to treat.

Clarkson University, Shipley Center for Innovation / Reset Water, LLC & Square One Coating Systems, LLC $50,000

This project seeks to accelerate the commercialization of technology developed at Clarkson University to address the growing problem of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in New York state and around the world. HABs have existed for many years, but in recent decades the scope of the problem has increased dramatically as runoff from nutrient-rich fertilizers works its way into freshwater systems, and as global climate change has increased average temperatures around the world, according to the project partners.

Through the FuzeHub funding, startup company Reset Water, LLC will launch a prototype boat outfitted with “HABs Terminator” technology licensed from Clarkson. This technology applies a proprietary electrochemical oxidation process to treat waters affected by HABs, removing both the visible blooms as well as their toxic side effects.

This boat, the second prototype that will be launched by Reset Water in 2021, will be outfitted with components sourced from another New York state manufacturer, Square One Coatings of Oriskany. The project will enable both companies to increase revenue with a new product line, ultimately leading to new manufacturing jobs that help to solve one of New York State’s most pressing environmental challenges, per the release.

Seneca Cayuga Yates Counties Chapter NYSARC, Inc. / Natural Beauty Breast Prosthesis, LLC $50,000

Finger Lakes Textiles is teaming up with with woman-owned, Natural Beauty Breast Prosthesis, LLC, to manufacture an organic, all-natural fiber, external breast form for women who have had mastectomies without reconstruction.

This project will create 10 new jobs over the next three years. Many of these new hires will be individuals with disabilities. The two businesses expect to increase production capacity by 300 percent.

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