Guardian Industries to Add Solar Energy Product Line
RICHMOND – Governor Bob McDonnell announced today that Guardian Industries will invest $2.1 million to expand operations at its Consolidated Glass & Mirror facility in the City of Galax. The project, which involves a new solar energy product line, will create 40 new jobs.
“Consolidated Glass has been an …

RICHMOND – Governor Bob McDonnell announced today that Solution Matrix, Inc. (SMI), a leader in cold-therapy products for the health care industry, will invest $2.25 million to relocate its headquarters and manufacturing operations from Pennsylvania to Franklin County. The company will construct a 25,000-square-foot facility in the Franklin County Commerce Center, creating 80 new jobs …

Ben Marchi, state director of Americans for Prosperity, an anti-tax group that supports limited government and free trade, criticized Greenpeace for trying to halt necessary jobs coming to the region. “I don’t think folks in the Shenandoah Valley who can’t find a job to support their family really care what Greenpeace thinks,” Marchi said. “This plant will provide a paycheck to hardworking Virginians, put food on the table, and provide fiscal prosperity to the community and hundreds of families in the area. The only thing the plant hopefully won’t do is bow to Greenpeace’s lackluster efforts to shutter any and every plant in the nation.”

Governor Bob McDonnell today announced that Régitex USA LLC, a manufacturer of made-to-order ring spun and open end yarns, will invest $1.5 million to open a manufacturing operation in Mecklenburg County. The company will acquire and upgrade an existing textile plant, creating 60 new jobs…

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.