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A training and education center, part of Hudson Valley Community College, features solar panels outside. The building, which has a LEED platinum certificate, is used to teach students how to work in "advanced" manufacturing, such as making computer chips. The center, located in Malta, N.Y., is close to a GlobalFoundries plant, which is ramping up to manufacture silicon chips for IBM. Alfredo Sosa/Staff
High-schoolers from Ballston Spa, a community near Malta, are enrolled in both high school and college-level courses in clean technologies and sustainable industries at the training and education center, which is also known as TEC-SMART (Training and Education Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing and Alternative and Renewable Technologies). Alfredo Sosa/Staff
Hudson Valley Community College student Mike Kennedy demonstrates the process of making silicon wafers at the training and education center. Alfredo Sosa
Ballston Spa high school student Ryan Scribner works in a photovoltaic systems class at the center. Alfredo Sosa/Staff
High school students work in the center's photovoltaic lab. Alfredo Sosa/Staff
The center makes use of natural light and renewable resources such as wind energy. Alfredo Sosa/Staff
Students practice making silicon wafers at the center's lab. Alfredo Sosa/Staff
Hudson Valley Community College students use a furnace during the silicon-wafer manufacturing process. Alfredo Sosa/Staff
The GlobalFoundries semiconductor manufacturing plant in Malta, N.Y., currently has 1,100 workers. It plans to add 300 by the end of the year. An administrative entrance is shown here. Alfredo Sosa/Staff
GlobalFoundries’ research-and-development lab is used to test and develop equipment prior to installation in the factory's massive "clean room." Alfredo Sosa/Staff
A silicon wafer shines at the research-and-development lab. Each wafer goes through 5,000 steps per day for nine months before it is ready for commercial use. Alfredo Sosa/Staff
The GlobalFoundries plant will cost approximately $7 billion when complete and will stand as the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing facility in the world. It will also be the largest leading-edge foundry in the United States. Alfredo Sosa/Staff
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For decades, the US manufacturing sector has shriveled, but President Obama now envisions it as an engine of a revived US economy. The basis of his optimism may be hopes for 'advanced' manufacturing.
In this small upstate community, a company called GlobalFoundries is ramping up to produce silicon chips for IBM and other customers.
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