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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a guest editorial by Mike Riedlinger. Riedlinger is the Managing Director, Technology Commercialization & Scale For ClimateTech for NextCorps. Originally published in the Rochester Business Journal | September 26, 2023   Rochester was built on innovation. We’ve always been home to people with big ideas – from entrepreneurs tinkering in their basement …

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Following the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer recently visited Ljungström’s Wellsville plant – after delivering a $1.5 million workforce development grant in 2021 to help power the company’s transition from coal to clean energy – to announce the company now projects to add over 50 new …

Schumer Visits Ljungström’s Wellsville Plant After Delivering Key Fed $$$ to Power Company’s Transition from Coal to Clean Energy, Announces Company Adding 50+ New Good-Paying Jobs in Next Year; Following Anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, Senator Details How Fed Investments He Secured Can Revitalize Upstate NY Manufacturing and Strengthen America’s Clean-Energy Economy Read More »

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a guest editorial by Cory Albrecht. Albrecht is the director of the Advanced Institute for Manufacturing (AIM) at Mohawk Valley Community College. Originally published in the Central New York Business Journal | August 3, 2023   I recently asked a roomful of eighth graders, “Close your eyes and picture yourself walking down a …

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Technicians look over a chip processing machine at the Micron Technology automotive chip manufacturing plant Tuesday Jan. 1, 2019, in Manassas, Virginia. Steve Helber | AP Photo Building a facility for a global corporation that will be employing 9,000 people isn’t something that happens overnight. An initiative of this scale and magnitude requires a deliberate …

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a guest editorial by Steve Lockwood. Lockwood is the executive director of CITEC, the regional New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NY MEP) center serving the North Country. The North Country has a fundamental workforce problem, but there are solutions within our grasp. Amid statistics that show a double-digit decline in the region’s …

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