Riffle Machine Works has grown considerably and brought over 200 jobs to Ross County since it was founded in 1980 with just three employees, and the company expects to add more jobs soon. Ross County Commissioners recently approved a 10-year, 50-percent tax abatement for Riffle to build a “third 100,000-square-foot structure on the Riffle campus off Ohio 159,” the Chillicothe Gazette reports. The expansion will “initially be primarily used for warehouse space in anticipation of its use for future growth,” and will “bring an additional 10 jobs in its earliest uses,” according to the article. Riffle will invest $2.9 million in the construction of the facility; Chris Manegold, CEO of the Economic Development Alliance of Southern Ohio, said, “[t]heir production is going gangbusters and they just need this for elbow room and they predict future growth.” Both Manegold and County Commissioner Jim Caldwell noted that Riffle “has regularly delivered more than its job creation estimates.” For more, read the full article.
Riffle will invest $2.9 million for most recent expansion to keep pace with growth
