When Kosmo Machine Inc. was founded in 1976, brothers Pat and Ted Smook operated the business — a maker of machine components — in a 2,000-square-foot building just a few miles south of Ashland.
An aerial photograph of the original site hangs in the company’s office, now located in a former U.S. Postal Service sorting facility in eastern Henrico County.
“Back in the old days, it was just Ted and I,” recalled Smook, 57, the company’s vice president of sales.
Now, after a series of expansions over four decades, the company employs nearly 60 people and has a 62,000-square-foot office and manufacturing plant near Richmond International Airport.
