EIT, Inc., a contract provider of electronic design and manufacturing services, will invest $12 million to build a manufacturing facility in the Danville, creating 120 new jobs. Virginia successfully competed against North Carolina for the project.

EIT currently employs over 230 people at its Sterling, Va., headquarters near Dulles International Airport in high-tech engineering, production and technical support positions.

EIT is a privately owned company founded in 1977 by current Virginia House of Delegates member Joe T. May to provide full contract electronic design and manufacturing services, from product concept through distribution and aftermarket support. EIT serves a broad customer base throughout the U.S. and Canada in the medical and analytical instrumentation, industrial process controls, and communications industries.

“EIT selected the Cyber Park site in Danville because of the region’s commitment to building a high-technology economy and its central location to our principal markets,” said May. “Key factors in the decision process were the pro-business local government, the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, and the Regional Center for Applied Technology and Training. Our business will be well served by working closely with these entities and the other like-minded organizations in the community.”