Last week, industrial technology company Nanotronics announced plans to expand its Brooklyn, New York, facility and create nearly 200 factory jobs.
Nanotronics, which aims to use artificial intelligence and other technology to make manufacturing and R&D facilities smaller and faster, said the move into a 34,000-square-foot facility at the Brooklyn Navy Yard would bolster the company's industrial inspection systems and factory control products.
The new design of the Navy Yard’s Building 20, officials added, would facilitate Nanotronics’ vision of smaller factories, and streamlined design and production. Founder and CEO Matthew Putman said that the complex would “help reinstall industry and manufacturing as the bedrock of our Brooklyn community.”
Construction on the $11.4 million project is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
The company said it would participate in local education and training programs, and form partnerships with companies in electronics, automotive and aerospace industries, additive manufacturing, quantum computing, and life sciences. Nanotronics added that the facility will function as an anchor of the Navy Yard, which local officials hope to develop into an urban manufacturing center.
Craig Shapero, a Nanotronics investor and the chairman of York Instruments, said the facility would “serve as a flagship … for manufacturing and the future factory platform upon which every industry will follow.”
Image credit: ViblyPhoto / Shutterstock.com