Richmond’s Advanced Materials Cluster

The Richmond,Virginia, metropolitan area is home to a large and growing chemical industry from which is springing a world-class cluster of companies engaged in the

 development and application of advanced materials and specialty chemicals.

The advanced materials/specialty sector spans the spectrum from industry giants DuPont (Kevlar) and Honeywell (Spectra) to entrepreneurial start-ups such as Magellan Systems (high-strength fiber) and NanoMatrix (bio-mimicking scaffolding material that promotes the growth of human tissue) – and companies of every size in between.

This burgeoning high-tech community is supported by cutting-edge R&D activity -- both at universities and federal labs -- in Richmond; nearby Charlottesville and Hampton Roads; and, within easy driving distance, Blacksburg, the Research Triangle and Washington, D.C.

Greater Richmond Catalyst

Greater Richmond Catalyst, a quarterly website/newsletter supported by the Greater Richmond Partnership, tracks new technologies, products and businesses originating from the Richmond region. The publication has two goals:

1.      To promote the building of new business relationships and foster an exchange of ideas within the region that will lead to greater creativity and innovation; and

2.      To persuade industry players and service providers outside the region that, to keep abreast of the advanced-materials field, they need to maintain a presence here.

The website has two main functions: to archive the newsletters, and to house the Advanced Materials Knowledge Base, a directory and searchable index of scientific, corporate and professional expertise in the Richmond region.

Advanced Materials Directory

Greater Richmond Catalyst has compiled a directory of companies that are part of the advanced materials and specialty chemicals cluster.

If you would like your business enterprise, research institution or professional practice to be included in the Advanced Materials Directory, please submit the following information to publisher@richmond

catalyst.com:

Name of organization

Website URL

Brief description (50 to 100 words)

And, in case we need to contact you, your name, e-mail address and phone number

Press Releases

If you would like Greater Richmond Catalyst to publish your press releases in the website and quarterly newsletter, please e-mail it in Microsoft Word format to publisher@richmondcatalyst.com.

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Forward to an Associate

As the advanced material/specialty chemicals cluster in the Richmond area grows, we all prosper together. Attracting new players to the region:

o        Deepens the talent pool

o        Intensifies support for R&D

o        Lures niche vendors and professional service providers

o        Attracts start-up and venture capital

o        Creates new partnership opportunities, and

o        Increases the civic and political clout of the industry in the community

You can help build the chemical/advanced material cluster by forwarding the Greater Richmond Catalyst to friends and associates who might want to keep up with innovations in this field.

By using the “forward to a friend” feature found in your e-mail, rather than using the forward feature in your e-mail reader, you can make sure that the recipient gets a clean, uncorrupted copy.

Even better, urge your friends and associates to subscribe to Greater Richmond Catalyst. Did we mention -- it’s free!

Sponsors

The Greater Richmond Partnership provides the funding for this website and the publication of four editions annually of the Greater Richmond Catalyst. If you would like to co-sponsor this initiative, you can do so by underwriting the expense of publishing additional editions of the newsletter. For details, contact the publisher at publisher@richmondcatalyst.com.

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