Chico business owner Chuck Nadeau, left, and Butte College Create Space manager Daniel Donnelly stand next to the center’s 3D printer, which manufactured a part Nadeau sought for his business, in Butte Valley, California, on Monday, March 6, 2023. (Butte College Digital Art and Design Department/Contributed)
BUTTE VALLEY — What’s better as a business owner than to create something useful while doing it efficiently? If you ask Chico resident Chuck Nadeau, owner of MC Fiber Solutions, that happened when a local manufacturing program came up with a way to save Nadeau’s business — and his customers — money.
Nadeau had teamed up with ChicoStart, a business development service, and used a three-dimensional (3D) printer to create a prototype of an important part that would solve his problem. However, he needed help, as well as a larger production…
