Technical.ly Philly: Why Graphene Frontiers is spending $3M to
open an R&D
facility in Albany
Published:
Friday, September 19, 2014 - 11:04
Technical.ly Philly
World-class facilities and consumer electronics partners (and funding from New York state) are the major draws.
Graphene Frontiers plans to open a satellite office inside SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Albany NanoTech Complex next year.
It’ll allow the graphene manufacturer to ramp up production and be close to the consumer electronics companies who also call the complex home. (While Graphene Frontiers isn’t working with consumer electronics companies right now, it’s a market opportunity they’re interested in, according to a spokesman.)
The company, which spun out of research being done at Penn, will spend $3 million over the next three-to-five years on tools, equipment and hiring up to 27 employees who will work out of the Albany office, according to a release.
