UTICA NANO WINDFALL
LIKELY TO BENEFIT US
In Particular, Mathes Sees Boon For Richfield
By JIM KEVLIN • for www.allotsego.com
Utica’s nanotechnology dream is about to come true with Governor Cuomo’s announcement last week that GE Global Research and an Austrian company, AMS AG, have committed to operations that will create 1,500 jobs in Utica and Marcy in the next five years.
That can only mean good things for Otsego County, said Sandy Mathes, president of the Otsego Now economic development venture. “It’s exactly what we’ve been hoping for,” he said.
Announced last Thursday to great fanfare in the Mohawk Valley, Cuomo said:
- Global technology leader AMS, a multinational company, plans to generate more than 1,000 new jobs and initially invest over $2 billion in a 360,000-square-foot wafer fabrication plant at the Nano Utica site in Marcy.
- GE Global Research will be the anchor tenant of the Computer Chip Commercialization Center (QUAD C) at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science & Engineering in Utica, creating 500 jobs in the next five years and another 350 after that.
