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Governor McAuliffe Announces 35 New Jobs in Danville-Pittsylvania County
Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Thursday that Unison Ltd, a leading global tube bending machine specialist, will invest $5.2 million to establish its first U.S. manufacturing operation in the Cane Creek Centre Industrial Park, jointly owned by the City of Danville and Pittsylvania County. Virginia successfully competed against North Carolina...
Commonwealth of Virginia Creates New Workforce
Southeast Manufacturing News featured an article on Virginia's workforce development program in the August 2017 issue. View the virtual edition.
Connecting rural communities with affordable broadband
Microsoft is using part of the wireless spectrum to provide broadband coverage over vast distances at a fraction of the typical cost. Learn more: https://news.microsoft.com/rural-broadband/
Hiring, Training and Supporting the Workforce in School and on the Job
Virginia’s Rolls-Royce Crosspointe plant shares its strategies for attracting, hiring and supporting its workers, while Danville Community College excels with its integrated machining education model. Photo: This worktable demonstrates some of the more interesting parts students are tasked with machining in the Gene Haas Center. Rather than take...
Improvement Versus Reinvention: Impressions from Virginia
A three-day journey through Virginia shows advanced manufacturing’s concern with pursuing lean principles when facing challenges rooted in the past and arriving on the horizon. Photo: An employee at TMI Autotech looks over a part drawing in the facility’s machine shop. The company is increasingly being asked to machine small batches of parts for...
Purchase agreement signed for $100 million project at Berry Hill Industrial Park
A second business has signed a purchase agreement for acreage in the Berry Hill Industrial Park, the Regional Industrial Facility Authority announced at a meeting Monday. Enviva Development Holdings LLC has signed an agreement to buy a 168-acre tract along Berry Hill Road. The company will conduct due diligence on the site — investigations into...
DCC ‘Cyber Team’ honored at national summit
The Danville Community College “Cyber Team” was honored Wednesday at the National Cyber Security Summit in Huntsville, Alabama. DCC’s cyber security and cyber crime programs were recognized for earning the Center of Academic Excellence in Two-Year Education (CAE2Y) designation from the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security...
Noblis renews commitment to Danville, intends to increase personnel
The Noblis Center for Applied High Performance Computing — a high-tech supercomputer company at 527 Bridge St. — announced Monday it has signed a second five-year lease to continue doing business in Danville. The company plans to install the next generation of big data processors to work alongside the Cray MXT 2 that was activated at the site in...
Institute debuts new Inspiration Lab
Danville’s Institute for Advanced Learning and Research unveiled a new mobile lab Thursday morning, which Don Merricks, chairman of the Institute’s board of trustees, hopes will be a “game changer for the whole region.” The mobile lab serves eight localities in the Dan River Region encompassing more than 4,000 square miles. The Inspiration Lab...
McAuliffe highlights solar project; urges localities to get serious about alternative energy
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe applauded a Dan River Region solar energy project and said Virginia needs to get serious about alternative energy if it wants to attract large tech companies and other employers during an energy roundtable discussion Tuesday in Danville. “We’ve got to get our heads out of the sand on this issue,” McAuliffe said. At...