Nobel Prize Winner's Lighting Firm Opening Factory in Syracuse
- LED-maker Soraa founded by Shuji Nakamura bringing 400 jobs
- Federal prosecutors investigating bids in related project
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Soraa Inc., whose founder Shuji Nakamura won the Nobel Prize in physics last year for his invention of the blue light-emitting diode, is opening a factory that will bring an estimated 400 jobs to Syracuse, New York.
The plant will join a network of firms opening manufacturing facilities in upstate New York that are attracted by research at the state’s SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany. Fremont, California-based Soraa had planned to open a factory in Buffalo in 2013, but was pushed out when billionaire Elon Musk’s SolarCity moved in with a project five times larger.