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ALBANY – Xerox will relocate a manufacturing operation from China to the nanotechnology center in Canandaigua, Ontario County, Gov. Andrew Cuomo will announce Thursday.
The move will mean 100 jobs over five years at the growing SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center in Canandaigua. The state is kicking in $750,000 to help the college set up the new facility, according to the details obtained by Gannett’s Albany Bureau.
It’s the second jobs announcement this week at the Canandaigua center, which merged in 2010 with the successful nano center at SUNY Albany.
“This public-private partnership is further evidence solidifying New York’s reputation as a top destination for the nanotechnology and advanced manufacturing industries,” Cuomo said in a statement. “Xerox’s decision to partner with our state government and SUNY CNSE by transferring their operations from overseas to New York is another vote of confidence in the quality of this region’s workforce and the promise of our growing high-tech economy.”
Xerox said it would relocate capital equipment used in the manufacturing of advanced document scanning equipment from China to a 3,300-square-foot cleanroom at Canandaigua facility.
Xerox is also negotiating a five-year contract agreement with the college to purchase optical scanners once the production line is transferred to the Canandaigua site. The state money is going to the Canandaigua center, not any private companies, state officials said.
The jobs are expected to be researchers, engineers and technicians employed by the college and Xerox.
“As a global company, we manufacture around the world and have made the decision to bring this optics assembly project to New York where we can invest locally for key scanning technology requirements,” said Lee Nunziato, Xerox’s technology procurement manager, in the governor’s news release.
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