P.P. Payne North America

P.P. Payne, a unit of Bunlz plc, manufactures tear tapes incorporating pressure-sensitive adhesive technology for the flexible packaging industry. The North American operation in Colonial Heights consists of a tear tape converting plant, warehousing and sales offices.

Tredegar Corporation

Tredegar’s corporate headquarters, Film Products division headquarters, and technical center are located in Richmond. Tredegar's Film Products manufactures apertured, breatable, elastomeric and nonwoven laminate films.

 

Tredgar Film Products

Wako Chemicals USA

Wako Chemicals USA manufactures photographic chemicals, azo initiators and other chemical products at its Richmond facility.

Xymid LLC

Xymid, LLC, consists of four new and growing businesses created by the DuPont Company. Xymid technology makes fabrics with unique properties, polyester print sleeves, grease-absorbing pads and fabric used in chemical protective undergarments. 

Alfa Laval Inc.

Alfa Laval, with its U.S. headquarters in Richmond, markets and supplies a broad range of heat exchangers, separators, decanters, pumps, valves and fittings to customers in a wide range of market segments.  It is well known for products such as Tri-Clover®, Contherm®, Sharples®, Merco®, Standard Refrigeration®, and Ketema™.

Alstom Power

Alstom is a global leader in equipment and services for power generation and rail transport. The company is present in more than 70 countries worldwide.

AMF Bakery Systems

Headquartered in Richmond, AMF Bakery Systems is the world's leading manufacturer of high speed bakery equipment. The company provides complete automated bakery solutions including dough mixing, dividing, make-up, proofing, baking, cooling, packaging, basket/case loading, and product distribution. It has offices and manufacturing facilities in the USA, Canada, Central/South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand.

BluePrint Automation

BluePrint designs and manufactures automated case packing systems for flexible bags. The company provides custom solutions to clients around the world for packaging automation through innovative and elegant design.

Brenco Inc.

BRENCO was founded in 1949 and is located in Petersburg, Virginia. Today, BRENCO manufactures more of its own components than any other railroad bearing manufacturer in the world, which allows it to maintain the highest quality-control standards in the rail industry. It is also the leading producer of bearings for new railcars built in the United States.

Flexicell Inc.

Flexicell, headquartered in Hanover County, Virginia, designs and manufactures robotic material handling systems. It provides custom packing, palletizing, and material handling solutions such as case packing, assembly, feeding of product to other machinery, vision inspecting, collating, machine loading and unloading, conveying and palletizing. Flexicell is an Authorized System Integrator for FANUC Robotics.

Hauni Richmond Inc.

Hauni is a supplier of technologies and solutions for tobacco processing, filter and cigarette production industry. Hauni Richmond was founded in 1955 as the sales and service center for North America for high-speed cigarette, filter making equipment, tobacco processing (primary) equipment and spare parts and technical service.

Hill PHOENIX

With nine facilities across the nation, Hill PHOENIX designs, manufactures, sells and installs refrigerated display cases, refrigeration systems, power systems and walk-in-coolers.

Jungheinrich Lift Truck Corp.

Jungheinrich AG is one of the leading international suppliers in the fields of material handling equipment, warehousing technology and material flow technology. It offers a comprehensive product range of forklift trucks, rack systems and services for complete intralogistics.

QubicaAMF Worldwide

QubicaAMF Worldwide is one of the largest bowling products manufacturers and marketers in the world. With worldwide headquarters in Hanover County, Virginia and European headquarters in Bologna, Italy, the joint venture offers a complete line of high-quality, innovative solutions for new and existing bowling and entertainment centers.

Rolls-Royce

In November 2007, Rolls-Royce announced they would build a new facility in the Crosspointe Center industrial park south of Richmond to manufacture, assemble, and test a range of aerospace components and products. The 60-acre site has been cleared and construction will begin early in 2009. The facility is expected to be operational by the end of 2009.

Electronics and Microelectronics

ept automotive

ept announced a new plant to manufacture electrical connectors for the automotive industry in Chesterfield County in 2008.

ERNI Electronics

ERNI's Chesterfield County office provides s ales and engineering for electronic connectors. Based in Switzerland, ERNI is a leading global manufacturer and worldwide supplier of a broad line of interconnects for the telecommunications, data communications, computer, industrial and medical markets.

Hewlett-Packard Co.

Hewlett-Packard's 1.4 million-square-foot Henrico County facility assembles and distributes printers and printer cartridges for East Coast markets. Menlo Logistics is the facility operator.

Rockwell Automation

Rockwell Automation operates a sales and service facility in Greater Richmond. The company supplies industrial automation control and information solutions to customers in a wide range of industries, including some of the most demanding manufacturing environments.

Weidmuller USA

Weidmuller is a provider of solutions for the transmission of power, signals and data in industrial environments. The Richmond area facility is the company's U.S. headquarters.

Vendors, Suppliers, Customers

Action Technology, Inc.

Headquartered in Midlothian this company provides skilled, contract personnel assistance in a variety of engineering disciplines.

AdvanceTEC

AdvanceTEC is a design/build clean-room and process-systems contractor working within the microelectronics, biotech, semiconductor, medical, food, and pharmaceutical industries.

Alfa Laval Inc.

Alfa Laval Inc. is the USA sales company for Alfa Laval. The corporate office and shared services center are located in Glen Allen. The Process Technology Division also has its home offices in Richmond. The company manufactures heat exchangers and fluid-handling equipment.

Applied Materials

California company provides a complete, global outsource solution to the semiconductor industry. Richmond office serves four-state region.

Burden Chemical Company

Burden Chemical Company is a nationwide distributor of industrial chemicals, serving dozens of manufacturers in the pulp and paper, beverage, food, tobacco, textiles, electronic, automotive, utility and other industries.

Chemsavers

A chemical recycler and distributor based in Richmond.

ChemTreat Inc.

ChemTreat, Inc., is the nation's largest independent firm headquartered in Glen Allen dedicated solely to industrial water treatment. The company maintains a state-of-the-art analytical lab and water-treatment R&D facility in its Ashland Research and Technical Center.

Delta Pure Filtration Corp.

Delta Pure Filtration Corp. located in Ashland develops and manufactures cartridge and carbon filters for a range of industrial, commercial and residential uses, including electro-plating, petrochemicals, photo processing and electronics.

Dominion Fiber Technologies

Dominion Fiber provides purchasing and fiber/yarn winding services to the textile industry for such products as fiber optic cable, sail cloth, structural composites and industrial fabrics.

FloOnics

FloOnics specializes in Ultra High Purity Systems installation, engineering and process management that support the growing high-tech and clean-room industries.

Industrial Chemicals Inc.

Industrial Chemicals distributes commodity and specialty chemicals. Its operations include repackaging, storage, blending, contract packaging, contract storage, and chemical logistic services.

Industrial TurnAround Corporation

Industrial engineering and contracting corporation with expertise in chemicals, films and fibers.

Infilco Degremont, Inc. 

Infilco Degremont, the U.S. affiliate of the world's leading water treatment engineering company, provides high-performance solutions that result from the latest technological advancements in drinking water, wastewater and sludge treatment.  

Linde Inc.

Linde, formerly BOC Gases, is a supplier of bulk industrial gases, has two facilities in the area.

RBR Tactical Armor Inc.

RBR Tactical Armor Inc. is a U.S. owned and operated company based in Richmond Virginia . RBR supplies the United States tactical market with the largest range of NIJ certified level IIIA, III and IV ballistic helmets, lighted ballistic entry shields, and modular body armor systems.

Virginia Sealing Products

Virginia Sealing Products, headquartered in Hopewell, designs, develops, fabricates and distributes fluid sealing products and components.

Universities, Labs and Institutes

Richmond

Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University is the largest university in Virginia and ranks among the top universities in the country in sponsored research. Located on two downtown campuses in Richmond, VCU enrolls more than 32,000 students in 205 certificate and degree programs in the arts, sciences and humanities. Sixty-five of the programs are unique in Virginia, many of them crossing the disciplines of VCU's 15 schools and one college. MCV Hospitals and the health sciences schools of Virginia Commonwealth University compose the VCU Medical Center, one of the nation's leading academic medical centers.

College of Humanities & Sciences

Graduate Programs

•  Chemistry

Undergraduate Programs

•  Chemistry

School of Engineering

Graduate Programs

•  Biomedical Engineering

•  Chemical & Life Science Engineering

•  Computer Engineering & Electrical Engineering

•  Mechanical Engineering

•  Nuclear Engineering

Undergraduate Programs

•  Biomedical Engineering

•  Chemical & Life Science Engineering

•  Computer Engineering

•  Electrical Engineering

•  Mechanical Engineering

Other Schools in Virginia

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia consists of ten schools in Charlottesville, plus the College at Wise in southwest Virginia. U.Va. offers 51 bachelor's degrees in 47 fields, 84 master's degrees in 67 fields, six educational specialist degrees, two first-professional degrees (law and medicine), and 57 doctoral degrees in 55 fields. The following is a list of programs related to advanced manufacturing.

School of Engineering
& Applied Science

Students who study engineering at the University of Virginia enjoy the best of both worlds: An engineering school with areas of substantial strength in such areas as microelectronics, nanotechnology, information technology, and biomedical engineering within a mid-sized public university rated by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best in the nation.

Graduate Programs

•  Biomedical Engineering

•  Chemical Engineering

•  Civil & Environmental Engineering

•  Electrical & Computer Engineering

•  Materials Science & Engineering

•  Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Undergraduate Programs

•  Aerospace Engineering

•  Biomedical Engineering

•  Chemical Engineering

•  Civil & Environmental Engineering

•  Electrical & Computer Engineering

•  Materials Science & Engineering

•  Mechanical Engineering

Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech is a comprehensive, innovative research university with the largest number of degree offerings in Virginia, more than 125 campus buildings, a 2,600-acre main campus, off-campus educational facilities in six regions, a study-abroad site in Switzerland, and a 1,700-acre agriculture research farm near the main campus. The campus proper is located in Montgomery County, 38 miles southwest of Roanoke, in the New River Valley. Through a combination of its three missions of teaching and learning, research and discovery, and outreach and engagement, Virginia Tech continually strives to accomplish the charge of its motto: Ut Prosim (That I May Serve).

College of Engineering

The College of Engineering is the leading engineering college in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As an indication of the excellence of its graduate research program, the college was most recently ranked 11th by the National Science Foundation for total research expenditures among all engineering colleges in the United States. Corporate recruiters and engineering deans ranked the college 28th in the nation according to the latest U.S. News and World Report survey. The engineering faculty also has established an international reputation for the academic quality of the graduate education program, having produced high-quality master's and doctoral level graduates who are leaders in numerous research universities and laboratories throughout the world. In addition to the Blacksburg campus, the college offers selected M.S. and Ph.D. programs at sites in Northern Virginia, Hampton, and Dahlgren.

Graduate Programs

•  Aerospace Engineering

•  Biological Systems Engineering

•  Chemical Engineering

•  Civil Engineering

•  Computer Engineering

•  Engineering Mechanics

•  Environmental Engineering

•  Industrial & Systems Engineering

•  Materials Science & Engineering

•  Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Undergraduate Programs

•  Aerospace Engineering

•  Biological Systems Engineering

•  Chemical Engineering

•  Civil Engineering

•  Computer Engineering

•  Electrical Engineering

•  Industrial & Systems Engineering

•  Material Science Engineering

•  Mechanical Engineering

Professional Associations

American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Tidewater Chapter

Professional association with 350 members in the Richmond, Hampton Roads and surrounding areas.

Virginia Chemistry Council

Enhances the long-term viability of the chemical manufacturing industry in Virginia and promotes the safe management of chemicals.