ROANOKE (WSLS 10) - For generations, we've built respect, we're inventive, hardworking and proud of it.
Tonight on WSLS 10 at 6, we begin a new series featuring local companies putting people to work and making things, right here in southwest Virginia.
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Virginia Transformer Corporation in Roanoke builds transformers that power everything from our homes, work and even some things we do for fun.
The company has grown since getting its start in the early 1970s because of its mission to make a high quality product at the hands of a skilled and dedicated work force.
"The people here want to work, and they come to work, and want a steady and a stable job which Virginia has been able to provide," says company President Prabhat Jain about the local work force.
Tonight at 6 p.m., why the company calls Roanoke home and some of the big project it has been a part of.