• The Global Center for Automotive Performance Simulation

    The Global Center for Automotive Performance Simulation

    Helping the automotive industry engineer and develop tires to enhance fuel economy and lower emissions. Read More
  • ProductWorks

    ProductWorks

    ProductWorks@SVHEC is the Commonwealth’s only single source location for product design and development services. Read More
  • Southern Virginia Technology Park

    Southern Virginia Technology Park

    165-acre park focused on IT, biotechnology, telecommunications, and technical manufacturing. Read More
  • The National Center for Coatings Application, Research, and Education

    The National Center for Coatings Application, Research, and Education

    One-of-a-kind coating and finishing technology center with state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing coating and finishing equipment Read More
  • Southern Virginia Higher Education Center

    Southern Virginia Higher Education Center

    100,000 square feet of technically sophisticated educational space Read More
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ProductWorks

ProductWorks@SVHEC is the Commonwealth’s only single source location for product design and development services. Industrial partners and entrepreneurial start-ups collaborate with our team in an innovative and efficient product development environment. Our services include everything you need to move your idea from concept to market.

ProductWorks

  • Design Planning
  • Prototyping
  • Proof of Concept
  • Computer Aided Design
  • Computer Aided Manufacturing
  • 3D Printing
  • Limited Production Runs

 

ProductWorks is the manufacturing resource that brings your vision to life. Our clients include vehicle manufacturer TMI Autotech, world-renowned piano craftsman Steinway & Sons, and entrepreneur Stewart Topp—inventor of the revolutionary Blind Stapler tool for the cabinet-making industry.

The Global Center for Automotive Performance Simulation

Specializing in independent testing, research, and assessments to complement and supplement activities performed by global tire and vehicle manufacturers.

Custom-built Equipment

Flat-Trac LTRe force and moment machine Flat-Trac LTRe force and moment machine, a transformational technology leap for testing passenger car, light truck, and motorsport tires up to 200 mph, providing dynamic response and braking and torque capabilities - twice the capacity of other tire test machines.

The center was established to provide the automotive industry with the testing capability needed to engineer and develop tires to enhance fuel economy and lower emissions while meeting federal vehicle requirements and customer expectations.

This level and breadth of research, development, and testing together in one location for automotive and tire manufacturers does not currently exist anywhere else in the world.

Located at Virginia International Raceway in Halifax County, the Global Center for Automotive Performance Simulation , a Virginia Tech research facility that offers the motorsports industry equipment and expertise for shock and suspension testing, driver performance, and a broad range of on-vehicle sensing, as well as a full-motion driving simulator.

The center plans to also incorporate state-of-the-art rolling resistance machinery, enabling tire and automotive manufacturers to accelerate the development of green tire technology, reproduce real world events, and improve vehicle handling and stability.

University-industry partnership means more rapid introduction of new technology and provides more opportunities for additional research for vehicle manufacturers, tire manufacturers, the motorsports industry, local education intuitions, and government agencies.

Southern Virginia Higher Education Center

 

The Southern Virginia Higher Education Center (SVHEC) is an epicenter of education and job training in Southern Virginia. Our campus features 115,000 square feet of technically sophisticated space including high-tech classrooms and labs featuring simulation technology focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Healthcare (STEM-H). SVHEC

Through a unique partnership with community colleges and state universities, we are able to provide convenient, affordable access to college degree programs and job training opportunities right here in South Boston, VA. We also provide short-term, hands-on credential-based training in information technology, automation technician/industrial maintenance, welding, and HVAC to help students go from “zero to career” in less than a year.

The SVHEC also seeks to help both new and existing businesses and industries remain productive and profitable. Therefore, we offer employers the opportunity to partner on customized, innovative training solutions that support their evolving workforce needs. Support and resources for entrepreneurs is available through the on-campus Longwood Small Business Development Center.

To make these opportunities as accessible as possible, financial assistance for programs and training opportunities are available. We also offer day and evening classes for scheduling flexibility.

ProductWorks

ProductWorks@SVHEC is the Commonwealth’s only single source location for product design and development services. Industrial partners and entrepreneurial start-ups collaborate with our team in an innovative and efficient product development environment. From design planning and prototyping to testing and small production runs, ProductWorks is the manufacturing resource that brings your vision to life.

ProductWorks clients include vehicle manufacturer TMI Autotech, world-renowned piano craftsman Steinway & Sons, and entrepreneur Stewart Topp—inventor of the revolutionary Blind Stapler tool for the cabinet-making industry.

C-CARE

The National Center for Coatings Application, Research, and Education (C-CARE)

C-CAREA one-of-a-kind coating and finishing technology center, housing 11,000 square feet of environmentally controlled space, and a suite of state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing coating and finishing equipment. C-CARE's mission is to become an industry-recognized national standard and world-class facility for workforce training, education, and research for a wide-variety of industrial coating processes and technologies that support a large base of manufacturers of metal, wood, plastic, ceramic, and composite products. C-CARE's value is categorized into these benefits:

 

Center for Coatings Application Research and Education

  • Increase Manufacturing Efficiency and Quality
  • Increase Manufacturing Efficiency and Quality
  • Increase Skill Level and Credentials of Workers
  • Support Conversion to Environmentally Sound Coating Practices
  • Attract Industries to Southside Virginia

Southern Virginia Technology Park

 165-acre park focused on IT, energy, biotechnology, telecommunications, and technical manufacturing

Southern VA Technology ParkPad ready sites are available.
View or download a pdf of Southern Virginia Technology Park's Overall Layout.

Southern Virginia Technology Park has available office, lab, and technical manufacturing space for lease and commons areas including conferencing space, an exercise facility, and a corporate board room; the building is 67,000 square feet and is class “A” space for small information technology, technical manufacturing, and biomedical companies. Current tenants include the Industrial Development Authority of Halifax County, Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities Corporation, Faneuil Inc. (operates a call center for Dominion Virginia Power), Southern Virginia Product Advancement Center, and the National Center for Coatings Application Research and Education.

Riverstone Technology Park

Building Two houses call centers for the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles and the Virginia Employment Commission.

  • Broadband wireless, DS3, DSL, and other services provided by several carriers and companies
  • Underground power provided by Dominion Power
  • 8” gravity sewer provided by Town of South Boston
  • 12” water provided by Town of South Boston
  • “Protective” covenants in place
  • Commons areas for Park in Building One include: Conferencing space, exercise facility, and corporate board room
  • Within 60 miles of 20 institutions of higher learning including the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center in South Boston

Competitive Incentives

Virginia Enterprise Zone

Job Grants up to $1000 per job for 3 years
10-year Income Tax Credits
Real Property Improvement Credits

Technology Zone

Five-year rebate of local utility taxes
Waiver of building permit fees
Waiver of sewer initiation fees
Up to five-year waiver of business license charges

Technology Opportunity Fund

$250 per job for five years

 

Other Incentives

Special low tax rates for research and development, biotechnology, and semiconductor manufacturing

Accelerated depreciation on tangible personal property used in the provision of Internet Services and computer hardware used by businesses primarily engaged in providing data processing services to other nonrelated or affiliated businesses.

Please call 434.572.1734 or email info@halifaxvirginia.com for more information.