RPO Invests $11M in Expansion

!%Rochester Precision Optics (RPO)%! will invest $10.7 million to expand its Henrietta, N.Y., facility and create 151 new jobs, Empire State Development and Monroe County announced recently. Empire State Development, New York’s chief economic development agency, has committed a $750,000 capital grant to the project. The County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency will provide a property tax abatement through its JobsPlus program. Formed in 2005 from the former Kodak Optical Imaging Systems unit of Eastman Kodak, RPO makes optical components and assemblies for commercial, military and industrial systems.