The Civil Air Patrol had spotters flying out of the Blue Ridge Airport in Henry County most of the day. They're checking the terrain to the south and west of Martinsville, and along the North Carolina border. Officials say a company-wide bankruptcy will not effect its Martinsville facility. Pillowtex filed for Chapter 11 protection today. No workers will be furloughed at its Henry County plant, though.
Officials say the plant IS profitable.
Since its purchase of Fieldcrest Cannon in December of 1997, the company's stock has lost 99 percent of its value. Pillowtex employs 13 thousand people nationwide, about one thousand locally. 63 Volvo workers marked for layoffs after Thanksgiving will get to keep working. Volvo estimated earlier this month that 200 workers at the Dublin plant would lose their jobs. Today, they revised it to 102.