Tessy Plastics may soon grow again and expand its Central New York workforce. The plastics maker is considering making a $20 million investment in one of its four Central New York locations — and adding 50 jobs in the process.

Cryogenic Equipment Manufacturer Will Consolidate Operations in New 76,000 Square-Foot Facility in the Town of DeWitt; Will Create Almost 20 New Jobs

Gear Motions recently hired Kris Gardner to fill the role of Customer Service/Purchasing Coordinator for the company’s Nixon Gear Division in Syracuse, NY.

Brittany McVea Dankiw has been a member of the team at Nixon Gear for nearly five years, previously serving as Customer Service/Purchasing Coordinator. When the need arose to add a member to our growing engineering team, Brittany was the obvious choice and was recently promoted to Manufacturing Engineer.

The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin Corp.’s (NYSE: LMT) manufacturing plant in the town of Salina a radar contract that could be worth up to $3 billion in the long run and be the facility’s largest-ever contract.

Thank you and congratulations to all of our employees that made Thompson & Johnson Equipment one of the best places to work in CNY! We had a pretty good looking group to represent us at the awards as well.

The inaugural FALLanthropy Games were held on Wednesday, September 18, at the SRC, Inc., campus in North Syracuse, NY. Hosted by SRC, the FALLanthropy Games served as a fun and rewarding way to connect with industry colleagues while raising money for local STEM charities.

Briggs & Stratton Corporation (NYSE: BGG) on Wednesday formally opened its $10 million, 552,000-square-foot commercial-products manufacturing facility in Sherrill.

NBT Bank has promoted David Kavney to Mohawk Valley regional president.