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Students take home awards in Panasci competition
SYRACUSE — A website launched in Syracuse in October that now has more than 4,000 users won the first place $25,000 prize in the annual
Business contest winner MicroGen plans for growth
ITHACA — MicroGen Systems, Inc. expects hiring this year in the wake of winning the $200,000 grand prize in the Creative Core Emerging Business Competition. The company, based in Ithaca, plans to add four to five new employees this year to its current staff of five. MicroGen had been a finalist in the Creative Core
Inficon profit up 3 percent in first quarter
DeWITT — Inficon (SIX Swiss Exchange: IFCN) earned $10.3 million in the first quarter, up slightly from $10 million a year earlier. Earnings per share
ITHACA — E2e materials has taken another step toward establishing its new manufacturing facility in Geneva. The firm closed a $400,000 loan from the Ontario
SYRACUSE — Ephesus Technologies, LLC is rolling out its own, proprietary LED chip, which it says could help the firm create more than 1,000 jobs in the next 10 years. Ephesus developed the chip in partnership with Group4 Labs of Fremont, Calif. Group4 works in New York from the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Binghamton Airport lands new ground handling service
BINGHAMTON — The Greater Binghamton Airport has a new ground handling service. Eagle Ground Handling, American Eagle’s ground handling business, won a contract to handle
Competitions award seed funding
SYRACUSE — The third annual Emerging Talk event brought 37 startup companies more than $150,000 in seeding funding. The event took place March 29 and
Nirvana lands SBA loan for new equipment
BOONVILLE — Nirvana, Inc. will receive a $4.3 million Small Business Administration loan to expand the business and create 60 new jobs. The bottled-water company
State makes insurers’ filings accessible online
Property and casualty insurers’ state rate and form filings are now publicly available without a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request. The New York State
EI focuses on website marketing
ENDICOTT — With a new website and a new quarterly electronic newsletter, Endicott Interconnect Technologies (EI) is hoping to continue its bounce back from the
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