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4/19/07 - Times Union
Vistec Hiring Is On Track
Vistec Lithography's move from Cambridge, England, to the Capital Region is gaining steam. The company, which makes sophisticated computer chip manufacturing equipment, expects to be operating at the Watervliet Arsenal by the summer. Some executives have already relocated here. But moving equipment and people is the easy part.
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3/1/07 - Daily Gazette
Partnership Receives $250k Grant from National Grid
The Arsenal Business & Technology Partnership received a $250,000 grant from utility National Grid to help rehab a vacant building into a new high-tech research facility to attract new tenants, officials said Tuesday.
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10/20/06 - Daily Gazette
British Nanotech Firm Moves to Arsenal
Vistec, Inc, a leading lithography firm, is moving its entire operation to Watervliet Arsenal, creating 130 jobs
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9/14/06 - Troy Record
Canestrari Secures $210,000 for Partnership
State Assemblyman Ron Canestrari secured $210,000 Wednesday to support a push towards attracting new businesses and jobs to the Watervliet Arsenal. Canestrari announced the state funding outside the historic facility that will assist the Arsenal Business & Technology Partnership continue its efforts to create new, high tech jobs.
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9/4/06 - Times Union
Army Awards 5 Year Contract to Partnership
The U.S. Army has awarded a new five-year contract to the Arsenal Business & Technology Partnership to be the exclusive economic developer for the Watervliet Arsenal site, U.S. Rep. Michael McNulty, D-Green Island, said Monday.
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7/22/06 - Times Union
Defense Bill Holds Millions for Arsenal
The 2007 defense appropriations bill, approved late Thursday by the Senate Appropriations Committee, includes $11.5 million for the Capital Region, according to U.S. Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles E. Schumer, both Democrats from New York.
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5/23/06 - Albany Times Union
Hartchrom Plans $6 million Expansion
Hartchrom Inc., a chrome-plating manufacturer at Watervliet Arsenal, will double the size of its operations with a $4 million investment. The Army will spend an additional $2 million to provide environmental testing, remediation and site preparation for the expansion.
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4/26/06 - Albany Times Union
Congressman Touts Strength of Innovation Center
Local economic development officials were at the Watervliet Arsenal on Tuesday to show off the Watervliet Innovation Center to U.S. Rep. John Sweeney. Sweeney, a Clifton Park Republican, was responsible for getting funding for the WIC, a 2-year-old business accelerator at the arsenal that helps develop companies interested in selling to the homeland defense market.
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4/20/06 - Times Union
Partnership Tenant Works on Unmanned Aircraft
Unmanned aircraft are silently patrolling over battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan today. But tomorrow, a young North Greenbush company thinks similar aircraft could improve emergency responders' communications, or watch for tampering on oil pipelines in the United States. Auxilia Inc., formed in 2004, is working to bring military technology to civilian use.
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4/13/06 - Albany Times Union
M + W Zander Expands at Arsenal
M + W Zander is expanding its offices at Watervliet Arsenal. The German company, which manages high-tech construction projects, leases 10,000 square feet of space from the Arsenal Business & Technology Partnership, a nonprofit group that operates a technology office park at the military base.
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2/17/06 - Business Review
Partnership Tenant Receives $2 million in Venture Capital
Applied NanoWorks Inc. landed a $2 million venture capital investment that will lead to the company adding more jobs. The four-person company, which makes nanoparticles used in coatings, sunscreen and in products such as paint, could double in size within a month
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1/18/06 - WIC Sponsors Homeland Security Conference
Locals firms asked to enlist in Homeland Security fight
Homeland security technology developers — from Northrop Grumman to Lockheed Martin — laid out their needs for dozens of area business owners at a conference at the Crowne Plaza. The meeting was hosted by the Watervliet Innovation Center.
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9/15/05 - Daily Gazette
Watervliet Innovation Center Taking Shape
Construction is nearly complete on the 9,000 square foot space on the Arsenal site for the new Watervliet Innovation Center -- a business accelarator for technology companies focused on the homeland security market. Eleven companies have committed to participating in the program.
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6/6/05 - Business Review
PARTNERSHIP WINS $560,000 FROM ARMY FOR NEW HOMELAND SECURITY INCUBATOR
The Arsenal Partnership has obtained a major grant from the Army-run Arsenal Support Program Initiative to construct state-of-the-art office space for a homeland security incubator to be run by the Center for Economic Growth.
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5/17/05 - Times Union (Albany)
AIMING AHEAD
The Pentagon not only spares the Watervliet Arsenal, but plans to invest $64 million in it.
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3/25/05 - The Business Review (Albany)
Homeland security businesses can take root at arsenal
The Watervliet Innovation Center, located in the Watervliet Arsenal, is only the second incubator in the nation devoted to companies working on homeland security- and homeland defense-related products.
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3/22/05 - The Business Review (Albany)
Displaced software company finds new home in Watervliet Arsenal
Sonic USA Inc., a company that makes software for ATMs and financial transactions, has moved from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute incubator in Watervliet to the Watervliet Arsenal.
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2/20/05 - The Daily Gazette (Schenectady)
Arsenal Expects to Continue, Expand Operations
With $9 million in the Defense Department budget set aside for development at Watervliet and two other arsenals in the country, the growing number of business tenants on the 144-acre site is potent ammunition to keep the facility humming.
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12/16/04 - The Record (Troy)
Watervliet Aresenal's future still uncertain
Even as it continues to churn out Humvee armor, mortars and howitzers for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and others, still must fight to ensure the Watervliet Arsenal remains open for years to come.
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10/18/04 - The Business Review (Albany)
Tech park execs coordinate, collaborate--and compete
A small group of leaders overseeing the region's most high-profile or promising high-tech sites will begin meeting to coordinate their strategies to lure companies here.
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8/31/04 - Times Union (Albany)
NiMo gives $80,000 Grant to Help Attract Arsenal Tenants
The Arsenal Business & Technology Partnership will receive a grant of $80,000 from Niagara Mohawk to develop marketing activities for the Watervliet Arsenal.
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7/22/04 - Times Union (Albany)
Defense bill to boost projects in region
A national defense spending bill approved by a congressional conference committee includes millions of dollars for Capital Region projects.
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6/24/04 - The Record (Troy)
$31M in Defense Funds Await Approval
Watervliet Arsenal would receive $18M
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6/24/04 - Times Union (Albany)
Senators Tout Bill to Fund Research Project in Region
A national defense funding bill approved Wednesday by the Senate Appropriations Committee includes millions of dollars for Capital Region projects.
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6/11/04 - The Business Review (Albany)
Arsenal Renovation Project Part of High-Tech Push
Part of an 86-year-old Watervliet Arsenal building, last remodeled in 1942, will be gutted and renovated this summer.
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5/20/04 - The Daily Gazette (Schenectady)
Event Showcases Private Firms at Watervliet Arsenal
Though the two men had separate presentations entirely, they each passed along the same message: new technologies that boost production in manufacturing promise to keep industrial jobs from going overseas.
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5/4/04 - Times Union (Albany)
High-tech firm enlists at military site
Solid Sealing Technology Inc., a new high-tech firm, formally announced Monday that it would be the sixth private company to move into the nearly 200-year-old arsenal.
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4/9/04 - The Business Review (Albany)
Group Jazzed About Premier European Trade Show
“I love New York Nanotech.” A group of more than 40 people representing New York companies and economic developers are hoping European companies will too.
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2/19/04 - Times Union (Albany)
Arsenal renovation receives $1.75M in Army funding
The U.S. Army is putting up $1.75 million to renovate a 116,000-square-foot building at the Watervliet Arsenal to get it ready for more private business.
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2/11/04 - Times Union (Albany)
Arsenal Lands Engineering Firm, Renewed Hope
Company to open trades training center as Army weighs base closures
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12/12/03 - The Business Review (Albany)
Nanoscience center in works; planned collaboration would stress defense, commercialization
As the Capital Region develops its reputation as a center for nanosciences, three local research heavyweights are planning a formal partnership.
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11/24/03 - The Business Review (Albany)
STEP Tools takes steps with Arsenal pilot program
STEP Tools Inc. is taking some important steps. The manufacturing software maker is setting up at research site at the Watervliet Arsenal.
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11/7/03 - The Record (Troy)
STEP Tools opening a new facility at Arsenal; plans open house, demonstrations
STEP Tools Inc., the forerunner in developing STEP and STEP-NC integration software for the global marketplace, announced the opening of its new STEP-NC Manufacturing Center at the Watervliet Arsenal, the oldest American manufacturing arsenal.
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5/15/03 - Times Union (Albany)
Watervliet Arsenal signs on Galesi to work with tenants
Galesi Management Corp. will provide property management services for tenants at the Watervliet Arsenal.
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11/6/02 - Times Union (Albany)
Two Women Breaking the Old Mold
In a male-dominated industry, they took a risk and started their own company.
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7/30/02 - Arsenal Business & Technology Partnership
Swiss Company Opens U.S. Branch at Watervliet Arsenal
The Arsenal Business & Technology Partnership announced today that Hartchrom AG of Steinach, Switzerland has formed a U.S. division and will begin chrome plating operations at the Watervliet Arsenal.
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2/21/02 - Arsenal Business & Technology Partnership
U.S. Army Crafts Unique Management & Marketing Role for Arsenal Partnership
The U.S. Army Operations Support Command and leaders of the Arsenal Business and Technology Partnership announced today that the Army is contracting with the Partnership to bring new private business to the site of the Watervliet Arsenal.
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