Article: closures sting, but we're still working.(Front)

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?

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