A former General Electric (GE) lab in Salina's Electronics Park will get new life as a nanotechnology laboratory that could eventually employ up to 250 people.

Group4 Labs, Inc. of Fremont, Calif. has already committed as the first tenant at NICE. The company produces advanced nano-electronic devices used in a host of commercial, defense, and clean-energy applications.

The company, a subsidiary of Spanish railway equipment manufacturer Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles S.A., will create 575 new jobs to perform manufacturing and final assembly work on Amtrak's 130 new single-level rail cars. The first car should roll off the assembly line in October 2012.

St. Joseph's will use the funding to purchase next-generation vital signs management systems from Welch Allyn, a manufacturer of medical equipment headquartered in Skaneateles Falls.

The contract is from the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit. SRC will establish and maintain a security operations center under the deal that will help protect IT infrastructure against cybersecurity threats.

The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled in 2009 that a number of Chinese manufacturers and their U.S. distributors violated Pass & Seymour's patent rights. The appeals court has affirmed the earlier rulings in the case of seven of the nine manufacturers involved.

CARTHAGE - A Canadian company, called Metro Paper Industries Tissue Group, is investing $2 million in new equipment and an expanded work force at its Metro Paper Industries of N.Y. Inc. unit in Carthage.

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