ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, January 26, 1996 TAG: 9601260065
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A-9 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: JEFF STURGEON STAFF WRITER
Bacova Guild Ltd. said Thursday that it plans to start production in its new Alleghany County factory about March 1, having been delayed a month by heavy snow and rain.
Bacova, a designer and maker of decorative home furnishings, based in Bath County, said the $7 million factory at Low Moor will be its center of manufacturing. The company will transfer 250 current employees there and hire 75 to 100 additional workers by about July 1, Chief Executive Officer Pat Haynes said. The company will begin interviews for new workers in mid-February.
Bacova Guild will continue using its factory in the town of Bacova, shifting production of its personalized fiberglass mailboxes from a facility in Millboro. It has leased the Millboro building to three of its suppliers, and a fourth supplier also may lease space, Haynes said.
The new plant in the new Alleghany Regional Commerce Center off Interstate 64 is more than 90 percent complete. The plant's roads and those in the industrial park have yet to be paved, however, and a new bridge to the park over the Jackson River is set to open this weekend, Haynes said.
Bacova can tolerate a month's delay of the new plant without difficulty, Haynes said. Production lines for the cutting and printing of doormats will be installed in the first phase, with other operations to follow.
Bacova was founded in 1965 and purchased for $12 million last year by Burlington Industries Inc. of Greensboro, N.C.
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