The Kodak Cell Assembly Center opened Tuesday in Eastman Business Park.
Created in partnership with the New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium, also known as NY-BEST, the center is expected to create nine direct jobs by 2019. Its developers hope the energy storage hub will also attract new businesses to the 1,200 acre campus and to the Finger Lakes region.
“The energy storage industry is growing exponentially and the new Cell Assembly Center, when combined with New York’s existing state-of-the-art facilities for battery development, prototyping and commercialization, will further strengthen New York’s ability to attract and grow energy storage companies in New York,” said William Acker, executive director of NY-Best.
Also attending the grand opening were representatives of Empire State Development, which is supporting the partnership through a $1.2 million Finger Lakes Forward Upstate Revitalization Initiative grant. The total cost for the endeavor is $5.9 million.
In a statement, Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chairs Danny Wegman and Anne Kress said, “The Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council is focusing on these types of partnerships which we believe will translate into next generation scientific discoveries. This effort will harness the expertise of private and research companies as well as local universities.”
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