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Rochester’s Hyzon Motors Inc. has received an order for five 154-ton trucks from an Australian subsidiary of the world’s largest zinc, lead and silver producer, Korea Zinc. Financial aspects of the purchase were not detailed, but Hyzon officials said the ...

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Bob Johnson Chevrolet founder Robert Johnson died on Sept. 2 in Sarasota, Fla. He was 84. Mr. Johnson was born in Chicago, Ill. on July 15, 1937. He was enamored with     airplanes, which prompted him to leave school and ...

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West Herr Automotive has acquired Brockport’s Spurr Subaru for an undisclosed sum. Spurr Subaru has been in business since 2007 and was acquired by Jeff and Danielle Lash in 2019. The dealership has 22 staffers and officials expect the facility ...

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Chelsea Conway doesn’t let much stand in the way of reaching her goals. In June, Conway traveled to Eugene, Ore., to participate in the Olympic trials in the 20 km race walk, where dangerously high temperatures of 100 or more ...

Monro Inc. on Wednesday reported record first-quarter sales, beating analysts’ estimates. For the first quarter ended June 26, the Rochester-based automotive undercar repair company reported a more than 38 percent increase in revenue to $341.8 million. The company attributed the ...

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Rochester’s Hyzon Motors USA Inc. has completed its business combination with Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corp. and has begun trading on the Nasdaq Global Select market under the symbols HYZN and HYZNW. As part of the business completion, Decarbonization Plus has ...

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The New York State Thruway Authority will begin construction this month on a $450 million project to redevelop the 27 service areas located along the Thruway. The service areas were built in the 1950s, with the last significant renovations taking ...

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Vnomics Corp. has promoted Lloyd Palum to president. Lloyd previously served as vice president of engineering and chief technology officer. Palum will be responsible for all day-to-day company operations, including managing the current product base and the newly announced True ...

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Owl Autonomous Imaging is one of 10 finalist companies with optics, imaging, and photonics-enabled technologies that are working with NextCorps’ Luminate NY accelerator as part of its fourth cohort. Each company received an initial investment of $100,000 and is participating in the six-month program, which helps the selected ...

Imagine if you could detect a car crash before an accident actually occurs. Portland-based PreAct (https://www.preact-tech.com/) aims to help you do just that with the goal of making cars safer on the road. The company has built a reliable, high-speed, near-field ...

Bob Johnson Auto Group has taken the reins at another Dealer Row car dealership. The area’s largest auto group has acquired all nine of Dorschel Automotive Group’s locations on West Henrietta Road, adding Toyota, Nissan, Kia, Lexus, Infiniti, Maserati, Mini ...

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Imagine if you could detect a car crash before an accident actually occurs. Portland-based PreAct (https://www.preact-tech.com/) aims to help you do just that with the goal of making cars safer on the road. The company has built a reliable, high-speed, near-field ...

For months, many small business owners wanted to know when COVID-19 restrictions would be lifted so they could resume normal operations. Now that New York’s pandemic-forced state of emergency has ended, businesses want to know how they’re going to fill ...

William “Billy” Fuccillo, president and CEO of the Fuccillo Automotive Group, died last week at his home in Sarasota, Fla., following a long illness. He was 65. Born and raised in Greenport on Long Island, Mr. Fuccillo got his start ...

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Ontario County’s Leonard’s Express has adopted a new green technology for its diesel trucks. The SPI Exhaust Reaction System, or SPIER, was developed by Rochester native and retired General Motors Corp. engineering executive Jack Schickler. Schickler partnered with Leonard’s express and ...

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