U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Moser Baer high-tech OLED lighting manufacturing facility that will immediately add nearly 60 new jobs to the local economy. Thanks to private investment from the company, state matching funds, and a $3 million grant secured by Senator Schumer, Moser Baer has plans to renovate a 9,400 square foot portion of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's (CNSE) Smart System Technology and Commercialization Center of Excellence (STC) into the new home for the production of Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) lighting panels. After construction is completed in January 2012, Moser Baer has a long-term growth plan to expand and create an additional 150 jobs at the facility. Senator Schumer also announced his new effort to have the Department of Defense establish a $30 million secure chip fabrication facility at CNSE’s STC center in Canandaigua, in conjunction with the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany.
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