High-tech manufacturer picks Laramie over N.Y.

C.F. Electronics shifts from military to medical field

LARAMIE — It’s a long way from Long Island to Laramie, but Frank Cylvick is making the transition well.

For that matter, it’s a long way from being a defense contractor to switching gears to manufacture medical products, but Cylvick is making that transition, too.

Cylvick is the president, CEO and currently the only full-time Wyoming employee of C.F. Electronics Inc., a 24-year-old New York firm that relocated to Laramie last spring and is in the process of retooling for a new mission of manufacturing emergency medical products.

“Basically when the defense industry went into a…