Manufacturing Extension Comes to Richmond

The Richmond area’s small manufacturers have a new source for informed and objective assistance. The A.L. Philpott Manufacturing Extension Partnership (VPMEP) has opened a field office, located at 10001 Iron Bridge Road (Signet Bank building) in Chesterfield County, to serve metropolitan Richmond. A team of three project managers is available to provide a wide range of services to small manufacturers.

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project managers bring extensive industry experience to the VPMEP. Many are former plant managers and have backgrounds in industrial engineering.

VPMEP is Virginia’s link in a growing national chain of manufacturing extension centers. The Richmond office is the seventh field office developed from the headquarters in Martinsville, Virginia. All of the field offices have the same mission – helping small manufacturers become more competitive.

For more information on the services available at the Richmond metropolitan VPMEP, contact Paul Zirkle at 706-1801 or 1802.