A Chinese-based company is investing $113 million and creating 350 new jobs for a manufacturing operation in Appomattox.

Governor Terry McAuliffe made the announcement Wednesday in Appomattox at the site of the former Thomasville Furniture plant.

Lindenburg Industry plans to start hiring in January, and hopes to have manufacturing operations underway in May.

The Thomasville Furniture plant has been closed since 2011. Lindenburg Industry purchased the plant in bankruptcy court last month for around $2 million.

The project is the first new company announcement in Appomattox in 15 years, and is the largest project since Thomasville Furniture began construction in 1972.

Lindenburg Industry will make environmental control devices.

"What they are going to manufacture is going to be a game-changer for China," McAuliffe said.