Service Center Metals to invest $45.2 million to expand manufacturing operation
RICHMOND - Governor Mark R. Warner today announced that Philip Morris USA will invest about $300 million to open a research and technology center in the City of Richmond. The project will create 500 new jobs. Positions include scientists, lab technicians and lab support with an average salary significantly higher than the city’s prevailing wage. The center will allow the company to develop new technologies that improve the products it currently manufactures, and may lead to innovative new products.
RICHMOND - Governor Mark R. Warner today announced that Tecton Products LLC, a manufacturer of composite products, will invest $6.5 million to open its first Virginia plant in Roanoke County. The project will initially create 58 new jobs that include machine operators, engineers and technical associates. Virginia successfully competed against North Dakota for the project.
RICHMOND - Governor Mark R. Warner will lead two back-to-back international trade missions, departing Virginia on Saturday. The first, to Japan, is a series of confidential recruitment meetings. Then, on April 24th, the Governor kicks off a six-day trade mission to India.
The Governor will be accompanied in India by leaders of Virginia companies, Secretary of Commerce and Trade Michael J. Schewel, and representatives from the Virginia Economic Development Partnership. The delegation will visit New Delhi, Bangalore, and Mumbai (Bombay).
RICHMOND - Governor Mark R. Warner today announced that Service Center Metals (SCM) will invest $28 million to expand and upgrade its facility in Prince George County. The project will create 32 new production jobs. Virginia successfully competed with California and Tennessee for the project.
RICHMOND - Governor Mark R. Warner today announced that Ridgeway Furniture Company will invest $6 million to add a curio cabinet division to its Henry County facility. Winning the project retains 109 positions for the Commonwealth and adds an additional 25 jobs. Virginia successfully competed with North Carolina and Michigan for the project. The Ridgeway Clock Company, a division of Pulaski Furniture Corporation, was acquired by Howard Miller in November 2004.
OSAKA, JAPAN - Governor Mark R. Warner today announced that Koyo Steering Systems of USA, Inc. will invest $36 million to expand its Botetourt County facility. This project will result in the creation of 96 new jobs. Virginia successfully competed with Tennessee for the project.
NEW DELHI, INDIA - Governor Mark R. Warner today announced that American Hofmann Corporation, a Lynchburg-based manufacturer of balancing machines and systems, has made a $350,000 deal with Indian Airlines to provide precision dynamic balancing equipment for the government-owned domestic carrier in India. Indian Airlines operates a fleet of 60 Boeing and Airbus aircraft.
MUMBAI, INDIA - Governor Mark R. Warner today announced that Sterling Gelatin, America, Inc. will invest $2.5 million to build a distribution warehouse in Prince George County. The new facility, which will house pharmaceutical gelatins, will result in the creation of 20 new jobs. The new facility will replace the company’s current leased facility in Chester that employs five. Governor Warner and company Chairman and Managing Director Nitin Sandesara announced the project following a meeting at Sterling Biotech Ltd.’s Mumbai, India headquarters.
MUMBAI, INDIA - Governor Mark R. Warner today announced that Essel Propack America, LLC, an India-based manufacturer of laminated and plastic tubes for the oral, cosmetic and healthcare industry, will invest $15 million to expand its Danville manufacturing facility. The expansion, which will allow the company to supply laminated tubes and caps to Procter & Gamble and other toothpaste and cosmetic product companies in the United States, will result in 40 new jobs for Southside Virginians.