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Article: closures sting, but we're still working.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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By Philip Walzer
The Virginian-Pilot
The International Paper mill outside Franklin - gone by next spring, shredding 1,100 jobs.
Also closing next year: the Smithfield Foods Packing Co. South Plant in Smithfield and the CooperVision contact-lens plant in Norfolk.
Combined, the three shutdowns will cost the region at least 2,300 jobs.
Two years ago , Ford Motor Co. closed its Norfolk Assembly Plant, which at its peak employed 2,500 people to produce F-150 trucks.
Will anything be made anymore in Hampton Roads?