WSYR: 1,500 jobs coming to Utica, Gov. says
Published:
Friday, August 21, 2015 - 11:47
Utica (WSYR-TV) – 1,500 jobs are coming to Utica courtesy of General Electric and AMS of Austria, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Thursday.
It's part of the companies' investment into Cuomo's Nano Utica computer chip research initiative.
AMS of Austria is set to invest $2 billion in a new manufacturing plant that will create about 1,000 jobs.
AMS is a global company that creates high performance sensor solutions.
It's planning to build a 360,000 square foot wafer fabrication facility at the Nano Utica site in Marcy.
Across the street GE is investing $150 million, and creating 470 jobs, to develop a Power Electronics packaging facility at QUAD C on the SUNY Polytechnics Institute campus.
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