Preliminary site work has started for the upcoming wafer-fabrication facility at the Nano Utica site in Marcy.

Austrian–based company ams AG will bring 1,000 new jobs and invest more than $2 billion in a wafer-fabrication facility that’s planned for the site.

The firm makes “high performance” sensor products and analog integrated circuits (ICs).

Mohawk Valley EDGE is handling the site-preparation work, Jerry Gretzinger, spokesman for SUNY Polytechnic Institute, said in an email response to a CNYBJ inquiry.

Construction on the wafer-fabrication facility has yet to start but crews are expected to finish their work in early 2018, according to Gretzinger.

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