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Wave of new jobs coming to Southside, Southwest Va.
Virginia Business
March 2006 Virginia’s economic development
efforts got off to a strong start in the first six
weeks of 2006
with a wave of more than 1,100 new jobs announced for
Southside and Southwest Virginia. Most notable is a
new $105 million investment in Wythe County by Amcor
PET Packaging, a Michigan-based plastic bottle supplier
for the beverage industry. The move will bring 144
new jobs to the area.
In addition, these jobs have been announced for the
following areas:
• 444 jobs in Danville as a
result of plans by Telvista to expand its recently
opened customer service center
(250 jobs) and by Unarco Industries to open a shopping
cart plant (194 jobs). • 200 jobs in Orange
County with the news that Diversified Information
Technologies will open a customer
support facility there.
• 175 jobs in Radford, where Intermet Corp.,
one of the world’s largest suppliers of cast-metal
automotive components, will spend $14.3 million to
expand its plant.
• 85 jobs in Mecklenburg
County, the new home of American Industrial Heat
Transfer, Inc., which is
relocating its facilities for producing heat exchangers
and heat exchanger products from Illinois.
• 50 jobs in Campbell
County as soon as The Timken Co., a maker of highly
engineered bearings and
alloy steel, invests $10.27 million to expand its existing
facility.
• 15 jobs in Suffolk, the result of Raytheon
Co.’s recent announcement that it plans to open
a high-tech facility in Bridgeway Commerce Park to
provide computer modeling, simulation and imaging services
for the U.S. and NATO military services.
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