Group works to highlight high-tech manufacturing in New River Valley, Danville regions

Group works to highlight high-tech manufacturing in New River Valley, Danville regions

Backed by approximately $650,000 in federal, state and private investment, a regional consortium is working to promote the New River Valley and Danville areas’ high-tech manufacturing.The group specifically focuses on additive manufacturing, which is essentially large-scale 3D printing to build an object layer by layer, and advanced materials, a broad term that includes metals, polymers, ceramics and other substances used to make parts and produ…