Screven County Celebrates Groundbreaking for $70M Yarn Mill Plant
Tuesday, July 8th, 2014
The flag of India flew beside those of Georgia and the United States at the Screven County Industrial Park as Gov. Nathan Deal joined in breaking ground Monday for ShriVallabh Pittie Group's $70 million yarn spinning plant, expected to create 250 jobs.
Deal hailed it as further evidence that Georgia has become very attractive to industry under his watch. SV Pittie Group's chairman, Vinod Pittie, suggested that his company's toehold in North America will start a resurgence of the textile industry in Georgia. Meanwhile, Sylvania and Screven County officials welcomed those jobs and the possibility of more.
"Last fall, by about several weeks before Site Selection magazine named Georgia the No. 1 place in the nation to do business, SV Pittie had made the announcement that they were planning to come here to Georgia and into the Sylvania area," Deal said. "I think that probably that announcement was at least one of the ingredients that caused Site Selection magazine to make that designation."
