Senators Push For Advanced Manufacturing Performance Center In Utica

Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are launching a push to secure federal funding for an Advanced Manufacturing Performance Center (AMP) in Utica.

The lawmakers say the facility would support expansion at SUNY Poly's Quad-C by creating a nanotech development and testing site. Schumer and Gillibrand say $1.25 million dollars in federal funding would lay the foundation for an AMP Center to bring high-tech companies to central New York.

They say a proposed AMP Center at SUNY Poly would spur regional economic development by bringing good-paying, high-tech jobs to the area.

“Sophisticated research facilities at Quad-C, a highly skilled-workforce and public-private investment make Utica an ideal location for an Advanced Manufacturing Performance Center. Upstate New York’s Nanotech Corridor is home to the finest scientific minds and research resources in the field of nanotechnology, and this proposed center  is exactly what the Mohawk Valley needs to add to this already promising industry,” said Senator Schumer. “That is why I am calling on the EDA to select the SUNY Poly-led application that will get this project moving.