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Feb 7, 2025

Italian plastic packaging maker coming to Shenandoah

Serioplast, an Italian plastic packaging manufacturer, will open an industrial plant in Shenandoah County, investing $25.7 million and creating an expected 45 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Friday. The company, which was founded in 1974 and has 33 production facilities in 16 countries with more than 2,000 employees, provides rigid plastic packaging for Procter & […]

Jan 16, 2025

Microporous secures $100M federal grant toward $1.3B Pittsylvania plant

Microporous, the Tennessee company planning to invest $1.3 billion to build a battery separator manufacturing facility in Pittsylvania County, has been formally awarded $100 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, part of which will go toward the new plant. The company was among seven businesses chosen in November 2023 to receive a combined $275 […]

Jan 16, 2025

Perdue Farms agrees to $4M settlement in child labor probe

Perdue Farms has agreed to pay $4 million in restitution to settle a federal investigation into alleged child labor violations at the company’s poultry processing plant on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. In October 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division announced it had launched a probe into alleged child labor violations at the […]

Dec 31, 2024

Greensville ‘bouncing back’ after Boar’s Head plant closure

Nearly three months after Boar’s Head shut down its Jarratt plant, North Carolina-based Carolina Structural Systems announced Nov. 25 that it would spend $5.5 million to build a manufacturing site for custom trusses and similar products in Greensville County, adding 58 jobs. The county’s economic development director, Natalie Slate, calls the announcement a good start […]

Dec 31, 2024

Top Five January 2025

1 | Inova pays $2.37 million to settle False Claims Act allegations Three Inova Health entities agreed to settle claims that Inova submitted Medicaid claims containing falsified information. (Nov. 18) 2 | Pittsylvania County wins $1.3 billion battery separator project Tennessee-based Microporous announced it will build its battery separator manufacturing facility at the Southern Virginia […[...]

Dec 10, 2024

Micron gets $275M in federal funding for Manassas expansion

Micron Technology is set to receive up to $275 million in federal funding to expand its manufacturing plant in Manassas, U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Commerce has signed a preliminary, nonbinding agreement for the funding as part of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, legislation Warner co-wrote. […]

A group of people stand in front of a plant.
Sep 19, 2024

$10M Biochar plant opens in Waverly

Restoration Bioproducts’ executives and employees gathered with state and local officials Wednesday to celebrate the opening of the company’s Sussex County biochar production facility. Through a thermal decomposition process known as pyrolysis, the facility heats waste wood to high temperatures in an environment without oxygen to transform the material into syngas — a combustible gas[...]

Rendering of the LS GreenLink subsea cable production facility in Chesapeake. Image courtesy LS Cable
Jul 9, 2024

$681M subsea cable plant coming to Chesapeake

A U.S. subsidiary of a South Korean cable manufacturer plans to build a $681 million subsea cable manufacturing plant in Chesapeake, the company announced Tuesday. The project is expected to create 338 jobs. LS GreenLink USA’s Chesapeake subsea cable factory will be built at the Deep Water Terminal Site in Chesapeake, a 96-acre property located […]

Feb 15, 2024

Lego delays Chesterfield production start to 2027

Lego Group will begin production at its $1 billion Chesterfield manufacturing facility in 2027, at least a year later than originally planned, the Danish toymaker announced Thursday.  The company also named Preben Elnef as project lead and Gray | Hourigan, a joint venture between Lexington, Kentucky-based Gray and Richmond-based Hourigan, as general contractor.  Billund, Denmark-based […]

Dec 31, 2023

Wytheville rubber glove facility is on hold

After a federal financing package fell through, construction of Blue Star NBR’s medical glove plant in Wytheville has stalled. Now, Blue Star needs $230 million to start operations, says CEO Scott Maier. “It seems silly for all of this to fall to the wayside,” he says. “We don’t want to just sit and twiddle our […]

Oct 30, 2023

Eastern Shore poultry plants under child labor probe

The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating allegations of child labor violations at the Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms poultry plants in Accomack County, after The New York Times recounted the story of a 14-year-old Guatemalan boy who was gravely injured while cleaning a Perdue slaughterhouse. Marcos Cux, whose arm was permanently crippled in a […]

Feb 20, 2023

Lego to hire 500 Chesterfield employees by year’s end

The Lego Group plans to hire approximately 500 people for its $1 billion Chesterfield County manufacturing facility by the end of this year, according to the Danish toymaker’s head of talent operations in the Americas, Karra McCormack. Lego expects to create more than 1,760 jobs over 10 years. The company and Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced […]

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