Brothers combine knowledge of firearms, innovation to launch family business with RCBI assistance

9/4/2021

Brothers Ethan and Jonathan Collins have been interested in weaponry since they were very young. One might say obsessed, according to Ethan. As children growing up in Calhoun County, they even fashioned toy guns from items such as gate hinges and rebar they found around the farm.

As adults, the two decided to parlay their interest and knowledge of firearms into a family business called PAR Tech. It helped that both brothers earned mechanical engineering degrees from Marshall University, and thus understood physics and mechanical processes and were able to use their computer-aided-design skills to develop 3D-renderings of their ideas.

To move their innovations from concepts to market, the brothers turned to the Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) at Marshall University for manufacturing assistance.

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