On May 1, Canon opened a new $640 million cartridge-manufacturing facility in Oyster Point, Virginia, USA, that will bring 1,000 jobs to the region by 2013.The 700,000-square-foot building is finished but will not start operations until the end of the year or early 2010, Rhonda Bunn, a spokeswoman for Canon Virginia, said Thursday. Equipment will be installed from May to October and then tested for several weeks, she said.
Canon, she said, promised to hire 1,000 workers for the facility by 2013. It already has hired 250. Canon has been in Newport News for 23 years and employed about 1,500 people before the expansion.
The printing company chose Newport News for the expansion because "Canon wants to build products in the region near the consumer," Bunn said.
The laser-cartridge facility is the largest piece of Canon Virginia's expansion, one of the state's biggest economic-development coups in recent years.
Source: www.hamptonroads.com
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