Tod Laursen, new Chair of AIM Photonics Leadership Council, said there is the potential for more than $300 million in funding for the next seven years.
AIM Photonics
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From flour to photonics
Today’s tech businesses have roots in the city’s river-powered mills
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Key photonics site picked
The New York State Photonics Board of Officers has chosen a site at Eastman Business Park for a major manufacturing facility. During a meeting this morning, the board picked ON Semiconductor on Lake Avenue to host the AIM Photonics testing, assembly, and packaging facility. The company makes a variety of electronic devices, including power management systems […]
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PHOTONICS: Building Rochester’s future
A one-year report card on Rochester’s progress as the center of this new industry.
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Two tech companies coming to Rochester
The state will invest approximately $75 million to bring two technology companies to Rochester. Photonica and Avogy will use a state-owned clean room facility at Canal Ponds Business Park for research and development work and will establish manufacturing operations at Eastman Business Park, Governor Andrew Cuomo said this morning. Cuomo and other state and local […]
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Duffy gets photonics institute appointment
Rochester Business Alliance CEO Bob Duffy will lead one of the major committees overseeing AIM Photonics, the federal integrated photonics manufacturing institute that’s based in Rochester. SUNY Polytechnic Institute, one of the partners in the Department of Defense-backed institute, announced Duffy’s appointment as chair of the AIM Photonics Leadership Council today. The Council sets “the strategic […]
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Photonics HQ location settled
The first fight around a new national photonics institute is over, and it looks like everyone got a little bit of something. Rochester academic and political leaders were at odds with officials from SUNY Polytechnic Institute over where to put the institute’s headquarters. The local people wanted it at the Sibley Building, while SUNY Poly […]
