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Advanced Manufacturing
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Virginia’s New River Valley is home to a strong cluster of advanced manufacturing. Whether you need instrumentation technicians or convenient access to major markets on the East Coast, the New River Valley offers an attractive business climate for high-performance manufacturing companies, including low electric rates, excellent location, and a readily available, highly skilled workforce.

Advanced Manufacturers in the New River Valley:

• Federal Mogul (Blacksburg, VA) — manufactures various engine and transmission bearings. www.federalmogul.com
• James Hardie Building Prodcuts (Pulaski, VA) — Manufacturer of fiber cement building products including siding, backerboard, wallboard and gypsum. www.jameshardie.com
• Celanese (Narrows, VA) — A global integrated producer of chemicals and advanced materials. www.celanese.com
• Kollmorgen (Radford, VA) — produces the systems that enable you to look, to see, and to control the leading edge of integrated imaging systems. www.kollmorgen.com
• Bucyrus (Pulaski and Pearisburg, VA) — Manufactures products designed to satisfy the world’s toughest commodity removal requirements (mining). www.bucyrus.com
• ESS Technologies (Blacksburg, VA) — Designs, manufactures, and integrates packaging machinery and robotics for the primary and secondary packaging of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, nutraceuticals, consumer products, and cosmetics. www.esstechnologies.com

Instrumentation Training at NRCC

Support Services:

• Virginia Tech Center for High Performance Manufacturing: http://www.ise.vt.edu/facilities/facility.php?content_id=218&type=center/
• Dover Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Integration
• Robotics and Automation Laboratory
• Electronic Manufacturing Research Laboratory
• Modern Manufacturing Processes Laboratory
• Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory
• Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering: www.ise.vt.edu
• NRCC Instrumentation and Control Automation: www.nr.edu/instrumentation/
• NRCC Machine Technology: www.nr.edu/mac/
• Electroplate Rite (Dublin, VA) – Plating operation that specializes in all types of metal finishes. www.electroplate-rite.com

Research Sponsors include (but are not limited to):

NSF, US Department of Agriculture, US Dept of the Interior, VDOT, CIT, DOE, Universal Instruments, Infineon Technologies, ITT, M/A-COM, Ericsson, Sperry-Marine, Danaher, Averitt Express, Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, DARPA, etc.

Regional and Location Information

• Extremely low cost of doing business (utilities, taxes, etc.)
• Area of outstanding beauty, recreation, sports, culture, and
  education
• Available, well-trained workforce with an outstanding work ethic
• Home of Virginia Tech, Radford University, and New River
  Community College
• Located on Virginia’s I-81 Corridor and close to I-77 and I-64
  with N,S,E,W rail lines
• Home of the Virginia TradePort
  (Port of Entry #1412 and FTZ #238)