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Flags fly in front of a multi-story building with a glass facade.
Jan 17, 2025

Press Glass shifts N.C. operations to Henry County

Press Glass, a fabricator of flat glass for the commercial construction industry, is shuttering its Stoneville, North Carolina, operation and moving toward fabricating and delivering all products from its operation in Ridgeway, where the company has produced glass since 2020. Of 178 workers at the North Carolina plant, 110 are transferring to Press Glass‘ Virginia […]

Laura Hayes Chalk, business development coordinator for the Virginia Beach Department of Economic Development Photo by Mark Rhodes
Jun 28, 2022

Incubator offers foothold for international firms

Minimal risk, long-term success. Chorus Intelligence Ltd., a British software company that sells products and services for law enforcement investigations, had these goals in mind when it set its sights on the U.S. sales market. With the help of a new Virginia Beach incubator focused on supporting international businesses, Chorus is gaining a foothold in […]

(L to R) Virginia Tech international students Leonard-Allen Quaye, Alphonce Assenga, Mingyu Li, Tian Meng, Mustafa Yasin Kara, Blessing Christopher, Asenath Kwagalakwe, Alireza Namayandeh and Shaghayegh Navabpour Photo by Don Petersen
Aug 30, 2021

World view

Want to see the world? Head for Blacksburg. Well, at least that’s one way you might look at it. Virginia Tech, which sits in the New River Valley (population: approximately 44,300), boasts the largest number of international students of any college or university campus in the state. In pre-COVID years, about 4,000 international students populated […]

Oct 27, 2020

McLean staffing firm opens first Canadian office

McLean-based staffing company Digital Intelligence Systems LLC (DISYS) announced Tuesday it has opened its first Canadian office in Ontario. DISYS has been doing business in Canada since 2014, but this will be the company’s first physical office in the Great White North.  “Having a physical location in a prestigious area of downtown Toronto will give […]

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