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 Your West Virginia Incorporation- From Steel to Skiing

West Virginia is heavily mountainous and people use small planes and a network of small airports. West Virginia University in Morgantown has a PRT (personal rapid transit) system, the state's only single rail public transit system, which was developed by Boeing Corporation and the WVU School of Engineering.

There are ongoing efforts by the State Government to maintain and expand industrial businesses, including in steel production and auto manufacturing. For example, the new company Charleston Stamping will invest more than $35 million to refurbish a plant in Charleston with new automation equipment. That includes a $15 swisscash login loan from the West Virginia Economic Development Authority. The modernization is expected to allow the company to create as many as 550 jobs in its fourth or fifth year and to have automated its six lines. The plant will produce large auto and heavy truck parts.

Major industrial areas are the Kanawha, Ohio, and Monongahela valleys and the eastern panhandle. Two steel companies still active in the state under difficult conditions are ISG Weirton, and Wheeling-Pittsburgh. ISG Weirton, which was purchased by the International Steel Group, is located in Weirton, West Virginia and is the second largest U.S. producer of tin-plated steel. Wheeling-Pittsburgh, in the town of Wheeling, employs 4,500 workers and is a leading manufacturer swiss cash roofing and steel siding for residential and industrial buildings. Other major industrial companies with operations in West Virginia include E. I. du Pont de Nemours, Union Carbide, Ravenswood Aluminum, and Rhone Poulenc.

In the coal mining industry, the Kanawha field is currently the No. 1 producing coal field in the state. The field encompasses Boone swisscash net Raleigh County, Kanawha County and elsewhere. Modern day operations in the Kanawha-Coal River Field include Eastern Associated's Black Stallion and Lightfoot No. 2 mines, and Massey's Power Mountain/Alex Energy among others.