Industries

A wide variety of industries call Southwest Virginia’s e-Region home due to its strategic location, qualified workforce, pro-business environment, low tax rates and a perfect work-life balance. From advanced manufacturing to tourism to information and energy technologies and more, the e-Region is ready and waiting for your business to locate here.

Learn more about the industries in Southwest
Virginia's e-Region

Advanced Manufacturing

With a national renewed interest in Make it in the USA, Southwest Virginia’s e-Region offers manufacturers a place to start or expand in a region that has been actively diversifying and preparing for jobs of the future for many years.

Information Technology (IT)

Southwest Virginia’s e-Region’s efforts to grow and support information technology businesses began in the 1990s and has expanded ever since.

Energy

With active metallurgical coal mining and natural and coalbed methane gas production, the region is the energy capital of Virginia.

Entrepreneurship

Southwest Virginia’s e-Region welcomes entrepreneurship and readily recognizes the importance of small business in a thriving economy.

Tourism

The natural scenic beauty of Southwest Virginia is one of the primary draws for its tourism industry sector.