Rochester Tooling & Machining Association

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Keynote Address:



Manufacturing Activity Expands In New York
Kevin J. Kelley, RTMA Executive DirectorManufacturing Activity Expands In New York According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Empire State Manufacturing Survey, manufacturing activity has expanded.  In New York State, the general business conditions index climbed 5 points to 13.5 and the shipments index inched u...
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Member Highlight:



Torvec, Inc.
Torvec, Inc., is a developer and manufacturer of unique vehicle driveline components and commercial hydraulics. Our IsoTorque® differential improves a vehicles performance, traction, handling, and safety.  Since it is fully mechanical it reacts instantly and has no clutches to wear out or electronics to fail.Our hydrau...
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Political Advocacy:



In a Romney Believer, Private Equity's Risks and Rewards
The New York TimesIT was, the gossip pages would later report, the talk of the Hamptons — a midsummer night’s bacchanal in the playground of the 1 percent.Beyond the windswept dunes in Bridgehampton, at a $400,000-a-month oceanfront mansion, bright young things bubbled up and the Champagne flowed fast. Into the small h...
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Education & Training:



Don't Forget Monroe Manufacturs Jobs!
In a press conference on Wednesday, December 10, 2008, County Executive, Maggie Brooks announced an exciting incentive for MCC Precision Machining graduates and Monroe County Machining and Optics Companies looking for employees.  In this program a student graduating from the Precision Machining A.A.S. degree, Precision...
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Local News:



Rochester – 2012 Finger Lakes FIRST Robotics Competition Regional
It's time for the electrifying, sometimes wild, and always exciting:2012 Finger Lakes FIRST Robotics Competition RegionalFriday, March 9 and Saturday, March 109 am to 5 pm each day at the Gordon Field HouseRochester Institute of TechnologySee forty-one high school teams from our compete, check out the robots, meet the ...
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NTMA:



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Associate Column:



M&T Bank
For more than 150 years, M&T Bank has been known as one of the strongest banks in the nation.  With $77.9 billion in total assets, M&T has more than 770 retail and commercial branches and employs more than 15,500.   In Rochester alone, M&T has 30 branches and 460 employees.In a recent survey by the Greenwic...
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