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TechCity business manufacturing solar panels
July 27, 2010

Photovoltaic panels have begun to roll off the assembly line at Solartech Renewables on the TechCity campus. Solartech started manufacturing the panels in late June and expects to produce 55,000 annually with a single assembly line. A second assembly line of equal capacity is in the works and expected to be operational around the end of the year...

http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2010/07/27/news/doc4c4ecf9a86986625635110.txt


TechCity expects to add 100 solar workers
July 27, 2010

It was about a year ago that Todd Roberts first heard about Ulster County and TechCity as a possible site for his start-up solar panel plant. Monday, with production now under way, he showed off Solartech Renewables LLC to two dozen guests, including The Solar Energy Consortium and Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-Hurley, whom he credited with help in making it happen...

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20100727/BUSINESS/7270310/TechCity-expects-to-add-100-solar-workers


Food to Table puts old IBM kitchen to new uses
June 05, 2010

Two local food advocates have remodeled the old IBM kitchen into a storage, production and packaging center for use by farmers and food entrepreneurs. Farm to Table Co-Packers celebrated the opening of its 21,000-square-foot production kitchen on Friday ...

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100605/BIZ/6050321