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About CHPM Product Realization Lab

Founded in 2001, by Virginia Tech and James Madison University, the Center for High Performance Manufacturing (CHPM) Product Realization Lab provides your company with a single prototype for further design and testing, or batch quantities of functional plastic parts. This process offers significant reduction in time from idea to part, allowing your company to stay a step ahead of the competition.

Our lab is a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility that provides you with high quality protoype models , providing solutions to meet your specific needs from design to production providing metal (steel) and plastic (nylon) prototypes and limited-run plastic part manufacturing.

We are keeping manufacturers competitive because companies throughout the world are realizing the benefits or rapid manufacturing and rapid tooling technologies.

We offer:

  • Product Design Assistance
  • Computer Aided Design
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Injection Molding
  • Machining Capabilities

Industries Served

  • Appliance
  • Electrical
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Marine
  • Tool
  • Water Purification