Company's expansion is cutting-edge

By: The Daily Progress | Daily Progress
Published: April 18, 2011

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Albemarle County-based MicroAire welcomed Gov. Bob McDonnell on Friday for a ceremony celebrating the company’s plans to expand into the former U.S. Postal Service processing facility off Airport Road. MicroAire’s current offices — including its own clean room where it makes surgical instruments sold worldwide — are right around the corner from the postal facility in the University of Virginia Research Park on U.S. 29.

As the state and country continue struggling to emerge from the Great Recession, MicroAire appears to be a step ahead. Credit to the company’s leaders for that. And it’s good news for the Charlottesville region. MicroAire’s plans include adding 51 jobs to its current stable of 132. High-tech economic growth is just what we need. High-tech growth with a manufacturing component is even better. Private enterprise expanding into abandoned federal government facilities pushes the positives higher still.