12-31-1961 (cutline): Milton Amos supervises Mark VIII cigarette maker at Philip Morris. Machines similar to this manufactured 114 cigarettes here in 1961.
09-04-1959 (cutline): Sunken terrace makes coffee breaks a joy for laboratory workers. This patio opens off the employees' cafeteria of the three-million-dollar project.
07-14-1954 (cutline): Hazel Wells operates device for collecting cigarette smoke, gases for analysis. Machine was exhibited here yesterday at Philip Morris stockholders' meeting.
06-10-1982: Philip Morris building.
07-19-1958 (cutline): Cigarette smoke is analyzed on gas chromatograph at Philip Morris. Mrs. Phyllis Grove (left), Mrs. Alta Strickland, David Fridley.
01-02-1969 (cutline): Philip Morris, Inc. will consolidate its Richmond engineering facilities in this building being constructed at the tobacco company's research and operations complex on Commerce Road. The 28,000-square-foot building will house the manufacturing and industrial engineering groups. The building will be connected to adjacent buildings. David Warren Hardwicke & Partners is the architects and Conquest, Moncure & Dunn Inc. is the contractor.
05-26-1963: Philip Morris
05-26-1963: Philip Morris
04-15-1964 (cutline): This is the new Philip Morris Inc. operations center in South Richmond. Its dedication today followed by one day at the Annual Meeting of the company's stockholders.
06-05-1980 (cutline): Cigarette sorting machine handles 4,000 an hour.
12-12-1974: Philip Morris gift shop.
04-15-1982: Employee uses computer room at Philip Morris.
10-10-1981 (cutline): Foreign officials tour Philip Morris--Debbie Jones explains to visiting officials how a cigarrette packaging machine works at the Philip Morris USA manufacturing complex here. Listening to her are (from left) Zotico A. Tolete, commercial attache from the Phillipines embassy; Terrace E. Hayward, first secretary for agriculture from the Canadian embassy; and Josef Velek, a commercial attache from the Czechoslovakian embassy. They were among about a dozen embassy officials who were on a tour arranged by the international development division of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Their countires buy Virginia tobacco.
10-12-1974: Philip Morris lounge.
Philip Morris’ manufacturing complex at 3601 Commerce Road in Richmond is seen on Sept. 25, 1980.
09-17-1982 (cutline): New center for Philip Morris U.S.A. has outdoor dining area. The $50 million project is built on site of former brickyard and clay pit.
12-03-1975 (cutline): Philip Morris Inc.
06-20-1972 (cutline): Construction keeping pace--Ten rectangular towers surround the "making and packing" element of Philip Morris' new $80 million tobacco factory under construction in the company's complex on Commerce Road. Although construction was delayed briefly by the flooding follwoing Hurricane Agnes, it now has resumed and is moving toward a completion date later this year.
12-02-1978 (cutline): Seven-story Philip Morris plant on 20th street will be re-equipped to resume ciggarette production next year.
10-27-1974 (cutline): Parking areas are fenced-in and patrolled.
10-19-1974 (cutline): Plush employee lounge overlooks manufacturing area.
04-25-1977 (cutline): Tourists visit gardens at Philip Morris manufacturing center. More than 1,000 persons strolled along flower bordered paths yesterday.
10-12-1974 (cutline): Hallways runs entire length of plant as it faces Commerce Road.
05-29-1980 (cutline): Philip Morris' South Richmond manufacturing center covers 1.6 million square feet.
10-27-1974 (cutline): 10-foot high, yellow 'Hellos' greet employees
04-08-1979 (cutline): Visitors were taken on tours of the center on electric cars.
03-25-1984 (cutline): Phillip Morris cafeteria serves 8,000 meals daily to employees, visitors.
02-19-1990 (cutline): Philip Morris USA, with 11,000 employees, continues as the largest private employer in the Richmond area.
The final step for cigarette production is insertion into cartons, as shown in 1974.
It can take years for the Food and Drug Administration to say yes or no to a new tobacco product, and the nation’s two big tobacco companies are getting tired of waiting.
Demand is down for illegal, disposable vapes, and that has slowed the pace of declines in cigarette sales, tobacco giant Altria Group says.
