Filtrona Richmond, Inc. to Move into Enterprise Zone

Filtrona Richmond Inc., a manufacturer of cigarette filters and bonded fiber products, will build a 180,000-square-foot plant in the Ashton Creek Business Center, off the Walthall interchange of Interstate 95. 230 employees will be affected by the move. The investment will amount to more than $10 million, construction is expected to start midsummer.

The facility will house Filtrona’s administrative and research and development divisions, as well as its specialty fiber division, which supplies bonded fiber components to the writing, medical and printing industries. Those functions are now based in a 165,000-square-foot plant along Jefferson Davis Highway near Willis Road in Chesterfield. Filtrona has been at that location for 35 years.

The bigger, more modern building provides room to expand if needed,and will allow the company to take advantage of certain local and state tax breaks as a newcomer to the Walthall Enterprise Zone, which covers about six square miles along I-95 and Jefferson Davis Highway in southeastern Chesterfield.