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  Cantel Medical Corp. has broken ground on a 100,000-square-foot expansion to the company’s Rush manufacturing and distribution center. Based in Little Falls, N.J., Cantel is a global company specializing in medical sterilization, running the gamut from water purification and ...

  The walls inside the office of Lou Spiotti Jr. at Rochester Institute of Technology aren’t adorned with an endless array of championship photos of Tigers sports teams. Not enough space, perhaps. After all, Spiotti, who is executive director of ...

Eastman Kodak Co., on the heels of the sale of its Flexographic Packaging Division, has announced several of new projects and collaborations. The former one-third of Rochester’s Big Three this week said it has partnered with a leading provider of ...

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ConServe’s ability to collect tax debt for the Internal Revenue Service has resulted in expanded collection work on behalf of the government agency, which in turn means more jobs in Monroe and Erie counties. The Continental Service Group Inc. (ConServe) ...

Rochester’s listening but Thomson Reuters Corp. isn’t talking. Employees of the company’s Rochester facility were told this week the facility was closing, and while a spokesman for the Toronto company confirmed that information in an email, Thomson Reuters has declined ...

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Nick Optis Sr., executive vice president at John W. Danforth Co., is retiring at the end of the year after 33 years with the mechanical contracting firm. Optis joined Danforth in 1986 and, since becoming executive vice president, has been overseeing ...

Outgoing Ontario County Sheriff Philip Povero, other law enforcement officials and security staff at Eastview Mall shared some safety and security tips for senior citizens at the mall this week. The annual holiday shopping safety event was paired with the ...

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Rochester’s OLEDWorks has introduced the Lumicurve Wave, what the company is calling the first commercially available flexible OLED panel. Organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDS, are a form of lighting in which the actual light-producing component is a thin film of ...

An Ontario County art gallery this month will begin an after school program to bring art to children, and children to art. Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs will begin “The After School Art Experience,” a four-week immersive art program ...

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The future of retail, especially along West Ridge Road, will be undergoing an A to Z analysis in the coming months as the Town of Greece formulates a new master plan. From Manitou Road on the west to Mt. Read ...

The stately, ornate, three-story brick home, constructed during World War I and one of the many historic estates on East Avenue, sits empty. The owner, East 935 LLC, hopes that won’t be the case for too much longer. Built as ...

Almost eight years ago, the Rochester Business Journal began publishing my column. My goal has been to share stories that speak to Rochester’s potential through the lens of a design professional. I have consistently focused on the positive because I ...

The Rochester office of Thomson Reuters Corp., in the Aqueduct Building at 50 E. Broad St., in downtown Rochester, is closing. Jeffrey S. McCoy, a spokesman for the Toronto-based international mass media and information company, confirmed the news in an ...

There’s now a reason to go to the state fair in the winter: a miniature, indoor version of the Great New York State Fair in February was announced Tuesday. Winter Fair 2019 will include rides, games, sausage sandwiches and fried ...

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The KeyBank Foundation has announced a $50,000 pledge to OWN Rochester. OWN Rochester is an independent, community-based nonprofit committed to establishing worker-owned co-operative businesses in Rochester, specifically in the city’s most economically challenged areas, founded by Mayor Lovely Warren and ...