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Overview
At CVM, Inc., we design and build custom machines, and
offer contract machining, welding, forming and electrical
services. Most of our work is in the research and development
sector, primarily for companies in the consumer products,
medical, semiconductor, energy and defense industries.
With less than 20 employees, we are small enough to give
very personal attention to difficult custom jobs, yet
large enough to put substantial talented resources on
a given project when required. Our team consists of mechanical
engineers, project managers, machinists, fabricators,
electricians and programmers.
Having all this talent under one roof puts us in a unique
position to be extremely competitive on any project, whether
it requires a single-discipline or multiple disciplines.
Because we have all the resources under one roof, CVM
as a team can better control costs and schedules.
We provide some, or all of the design for most of our
projects. This includes, concepts, prototypes, troubleshooting
and general problem-solving.
Company History
CVM, Inc. was originally founded and incorporated in 1980
as Switek Design by Bob Switek, CVM’s president,
to provide mechanical engineering consulting services
to the chemical processing industry. Throughout the 80's,
Switek Design earned a strong reputation for thorough
and creative analysis, design and implementation on many
different projects, primarily at Clorox's Research and
Development facility in Pleasanton, CA. This work included
projects in high-speed packaging machinery, chemical processing,
foods processing and packaging, fluids and heat transfer,
consumer package design and manufacturing, and plant construction
management.
In 1990, Bob developed and marketed a high speed machine
for the frozen food industry to slice broccoli into spears,
a difficult cut, done only manually up to that time. The
name of the company was changed to California Vegetable
Machinery, Inc. (CVM). The success of this machine and
other factors led CVM to begin designing and building
custom machinery for other industries as well. In 1992,
the first full time employees, Tom Lipton and Gary Aslin,
joined the team, the first shop equipment was purchased
and shop space acquired.
The focus of CVM shifted away from the frozen foods industry
and toward support of local Research and Development facilities,
including Clorox and Hexcel Corporation. Since that time,
CVM has expanded at a steady pace adding customers, employees,
equipment and space regularly each year.
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