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Home Building Products
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Virginia’s New River Valley is home to a strong cluster of home-building products, and we’d like to help you construct your ideal location. Whether it’s a manufacturer of hand-crafted light fixtures or a company making more fiber cement siding than any plant in the U.S., the home-building products industry has found the New River Valley to be an attractive business climate, including low electric rates, excellent location, and a readily available, highly skilled workforce.

Home Building Products Companies in the New River Valley:

• James Hardie Building Products (Pulaski, VA) — Manufacturer of fiber cement building products including siding, backerboard, wallboard and gypsum. www.jameshardie.com
• Bondcote (Pulaski, VA) — Manufactures roofing products that helps to lower HVAC costs while built-in biocides inhibit mildew, fungi and algae growth. www.bondcote.com
• Lyon Metal Roofing (Fairlawn, VA) — Manufactures quality metal roofing and accessories. www.lyonroofing.com
• Auz-Bloc LLC (Floyd, VA) — Manufactures blocks that are far more energy-efficient than traditional construction materials, structurally superior and produce little excess during the construction process. www.builderscrete.com
• Crenshaw Lighting (Floyd, VA) — Manufactures decorative lighting fixtures. www.crenshawlighting.com
• Hubbell Lighting (Christiansburg, VA) — Manufactures a full range of indoor and outdoor lighting products for commercial, industrial, institutional and residential markets. www.hubbelllighting.com
• ThermaSteel Corporation (Radford, VA) — Manufactures custom built, wall, ceiling, floor, and roof pre-insulated panels. www.thermasteelcorp.com

James Hardie Building Products

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
• Virginia Cooperative Extension on Home Systems: http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/category/home-systems.html
• Center for Power Electronics Sustainable Building Design Initiative: http://www.cpes.vt.edu/public/news/2009/2009-06-24.php
• Center for Power Electronics Renewable Energy Systems: http://www.cpes.vt.edu/areas/Renewable+Energy+Systems

Research Sponsors include but are not limited to:

National Institute of Standards and Technology, NSF, The Aerostructures Corporation, CIT, DOE, NASA, DARPA, US Army Research Office, Sun Microsystems Inc., Visual Numerics, Inc., Peak Materials, LUNA Innovations, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 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)