Evatran, a subsidiary of MTC Transformers, is the manufacturer of the world’s first “hands-free” electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE). The company intends to invest $3.5 million in a new facility in Wytheville that will manufacture Plugless Power™ charging technology for electric vehicles. State officials said Virginia successfully competed against North Carolina and Ohio for the project. MTC Transformers, founded in Wytheville in 1985, manufactures specialized electrical transformers. It started Evatran in April 2009, but Evatran will separate from MTC Transformers in July.
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RICHMOND – Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell today highlighted economic development and job creation measures that will become law July 1st. Each of these measures were part of Governor McDonnell’s “Jobs and Opportunity” legislative agenda that passed with broad bipartisan support during the 2010 General Assembly session.
Speaking about the economic development initiatives taking effect July …
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Monogram Food Solutions LLC will create 150 jobs at its Henry County plant, most of them by the end of this year, to bring its total number of employees to about 400, officials announced Friday.
Monogram, which is based in Memphis, Tenn., produces processed meat products in the Patriot Centre industrial park. Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, who attended the announcement, said Virginia successfully competed with two other states to win the expansion project.
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Virginia Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling issued the following statement today, following the President’s announcement that the White House is cancelling Lease Sale 220 off the coast of Virginia. The lease sale was scheduled for 2012.
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Unemployment rates fell in the District, Maryland and Virginia last month, according to government data released Friday, marking the first regionwide decline in joblessness since the recession began…
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