Swedish furniture giant's first U.S. factory starts production.

Swedwood is ready to assemble a big business in Virginia. The Ikea manufacturing subsidiary's new plant has started production and plans an official opening soon. This is Swedwood's first furniture production factory in the United States.

Jorgen Lindquist, vice president of Swedwood North America (it's pronounced Swede-wood) said that production has started at the plant gradually in stages in recent weeks.

The Danville site, about 50 miles from Greensboro, N.C., was chosen over a location in Lexington, N.C. Danville had existing permits from an earlier plant project that was not completed, and this helped steer Swedwood to ...

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