Condair Group AG, an international evaporative technologies manufacturing company, will invest $57.2 million to establish a new production facility in Chesterfield County, creating 180 new jobs.

VEDP President and CEO Jason El Koubi spoke with Ashleigh de la Torre, vice president of public policy at Amazon, about Amazon’s complex logistics operations and ambitious sustainability goals.

VEDP Vice President of Logistics Eric Jehu spoke to Myra Blanco, chief growth officer at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) and CEO of the university’s Dock to Door Coalition, about the coalition’s goals for transforming the way supply chains are viewed, analyzed, and managed.

RICHMOND - Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today that Woodgrain Millwork, a family-owned and operated company headquartered in Idaho, will expand its door and window component manufacturing facility in Smyth County. The company will create seventeen new jobs in the county and source 78 percent of its timber needs from Virginia land owners. Virginia successfully competed against North Carolina for the project.

VEDP Vice President of Logistics Eric Jehu spoke with Lance Harcrow, chief operating officer at Estes Forwarding Worldwide (EFW), about the issues EFW sees as a logistics provider and how data analysis can transform the supply chain moving forward.

Mike Coleman is president and CEO of CV International, a Norfolk-based global logistics, freight forwarding, and trade compliance services provider, and Capes Shipping Agencies, a wholly owned subsidiary that provides ship agency, cargo forwarding, and logistics management services to clients.

Micro Harmonics and IMPREG participate in the Supply Chain Optimization Program (SCOP), an initiative run by VEDP’s International Trade Division and the first state-led supply chain assistance program in the country.

Virginia is ranked No. 1 in the United States for Customized Workforce Training in the 20th annual Business Facilities Rankings Report for the second year in a row.