Midlands Business News

A Warwickshire MP has urged the region’s manufacturers and engineers to come together to help drive forward the economy. Chris White, the MP for Leamington and Warwick, has agreed to speak at a major event organised by the Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce on Friday, May 24. The breakfast event – ‘Masterclass – Supporting [...]

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Ibstock-based consulting development engineers, M-EC has added to its rapidly growing team with two new appointments, Gaetano Pellegrino and Manos Mavrogiorgis, taking the total of new recruits to seven in the last six months.

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More than 1,000 engineering graduates and 50 of the industry’s most influential employers are set to come together at the UK’s first ever Graduate Engineer Show, which is taking place in Derby.

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Couch Consulting Engineers have been appointed as civil and structural engineers on a state of the art campus at South Staffordshire College in Cannock.

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A new manufacturing institute to be created by Coventry University in partnership with Unipart Group will receive part of a £50m fund from the government to help drive growth and to cement the West Midlands’ image as a world-leading area for engineering.

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Not many people can talk about what it’s like to build a bouncing bomb. But the team at Lindhurst Innovation Engineering can.

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An engineering firm has invested in excess of £25000 in an innovative new production reporting system. Midland Tool and Design’s new Factory Master system provides a range of data on estimating, sales orders, works orders, stock control, traceability and job costings. The system, which has been customised in-house, generates in-depth reports which will help the [...]

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Envisage Group, a leading Coventry based design and engineering business providing support to car manufacturers and related industries, has secured 20 per cent match funding from the LEP’s “Growing Places” scheme on an investment in the business of £829,000. The new funds will be deployed on projects which drive lower carbon emissions and generate employment [...]

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A young female Birmingham engineer on a mission to inspire the next generation about a career in the industry provided the perfect companion for Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) President Barry Clarke on his recent visit to Birmingham.

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Caterpillar, a leading manufacturer of heavy equipment and power systems products, is helping to fund six engineering scholarships at The University of Nottingham. Nottingham is one of five universities to benefit from the donation, which is part of Caterpillar’s ongoing commitment to sustainable education and the Caterpillar Foundation’s investment in science, technology, engineering and mathematics [...]

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Busy engineering firm Thompson has strengthened its after-sales service team with two new appointments.

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Expanding manufacturer SRS Precision Engineering has relocated to a 12,000 sq ft unit at the Old Forge Trading Estate, Lye, West Midlands in a deal turned around in double quick time by estate owners Folkes Holdings Ltd.

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Managing director Martin Rigley went back to the classroom as part of a nationwide campaign to inspire youngsters to realise their dreams and aspirations.

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MERIT 2013, the ICE’s annual construction business game being played for the 23rd time attracted 89 teams this year.

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Northampton-based measurement and testing specialist HORIBA UK has taken on 13 new staff and is set to make four more new hires, as part of plans to build the business.

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Engineers are at the heart of society and we need to boost their numbers and status, according to a leading campaigner.

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Olympic projects, tier 1 automotive parts supply, groundbreaking ‘telematics’ for electric vehicles and new medical products are helping a Coventry engineering specialist celebrate its 20th birthday in style.

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Advanex Europe has recently announced their support to the local apprentice schemes for their 2 Nottinghamshire based sites: Bilborough and Southwell. During the course of 2013, Advanex will pledge 2 apprentices from the Southwell site to The Newark and Sherwood 100 Apprenticeships Campaign. An additional 2 apprentices from the Bilborough site will be pledged to [...]

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A Warwickshire engineering company which specialises in the manufacture of sound and thermal insulation components for the automotive, manufacturing and marine industries has opened its first overseas operation in Sweden.

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A leading development engineering company, which is based in Coventry, is on target to create another 100 skilled jobs over the next three years to aid its expansion.

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A Midlands engineering firm has its sights set on further expansion after investing £250,000 on new machinery with funding from Yorkshire Bank.

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The Faculty of Engineering and Computing at Coventry University held its first annual open day for business on Wednesday 20 March 2013.

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Rodgers Leask has been appointed as civil and structural engineers for an exciting £100 million regeneration scheme aimed at revitalising the rural economy in the South West.

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The Engineering Technology Group and Hardinge have reached a landmark sales, service and customer support agreement for Hardinge and Bridgeport machine tools and workholding equipment.

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“Good apprentices are the lifeblood of many small firms and bring tremendous value to the UK economy.” That is the view of John Nollett, Managing Director of award winning Pailton Engineering which has long seen the value of this traditional route for young people to train for a rewarding career. Last year named as one [...]

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Veteran explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, now recovering after being airlifted from the Antarctic with severe frostbite, has e-mailed steel specialists at William Twigg Matlock Ltd to thank them for their ‘brilliant engineering’.

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Civil and structural engineers Rodgers Leask has helped to deliver a new £15 million parcels sorting facility in Staffordshire.

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An engineering business based in Rowley Regis has expanded its workforce using a £200,000 funding facility from Lloyds TSB Commercial Banking, after securing a new prestigious exporting contract.

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A senior Government minister has paid a visit to an innovative Coventry engineering company.

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A Derbyshire engineering company is poised for expansion following a move to new purpose-built premises. SGS Engineering Solutions has moved to a new site at West Side Park in Raynesway with six-figure backing from The Co-operative Bank. The finance has been used to construct a new warehouse and offices for the company which makes tailgate, [...]

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The managing director of a local engineering company has been appointed regional chair of a national body set up to support the manufacturing and engineering industry.

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Imtech UK’s Capula business division has completed the commissioning of the control systems for a new ground-breaking biomass plant in Italy.

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Birmingham Metropolitan College (BMET) in partnership with Jaguar Land Rover has offered female students interested in engineering, technology and manufacturing careers a unique insight into the world of work at the UK’s largest luxury automotive manufacturer.

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Civil and structural engineering company BSP Consulting has been appointed to a framework by a housing group planning to build more than 1,500 homes over the next three years. The Nottingham-based business, with offices in Leicester, Derby and Sheffield, has been selected as part of the Bromford Group Consultants Framework. BSP is one of three [...]

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Samuel Taylor Ltd, a Redditch based engineering firm specialising in the manufacturing of contact materials is expanding its long established apprenticeship programme.

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Midlands based high precision machinists Machined Component Systems Plc (MCS) has invested £400,000 in a new, state of the art Miyano ABX-64SYY machine and necessary amendments to their 25,000ft² facility in Redditch.

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A global engineering consultancy has parked up in Coventry with a view to driving business forward.

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Leading civil engineering and building specialists North Midland Construction plc (NMC) has appointed its first Executive Director for Rail as part of its strategy for further development and growth in the rail sector.

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As the West Indies launched their bowling attack against Australia last Tuesday night in Canberra, 10,000 miles and an eleven hour time difference away, a team of UK engineers slept peacefully in their beds, knowing that if it wasn’t for them, this game would never have been possible.

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The managing director of a Warwickshire engineering company has featured on a series of national radio programmes over the past two months as an example of a company that has managed to buck the trend by creating significant growth during the recession.

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A Midlands-based systems engineering company has been awarded a second contract that will see them produce a series of high-tech animated 3D visual publications for the UK Ministry of Defence. The high-tech 3D animations, using Aspîre’s eManual3D technology, are to be delivered as PDFs to meet the UK MoD’s Information Systems requirements. The visualisations incorporate [...]

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A recent study by the Royal Academy of Engineering has highlighted that the UK is in danger of creating a severe shortfall in engineering and science graduates, needing to increase the number of people coming through by as much as 50%.

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Worcester, Bosch Group, had an extra reason to celebrate its 50th anniversary after cutting its C02 emissions by 184 tonnes.

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A local engineering firm is gearing up for expansion after Mather Jamie helped oversee the quick sale of its existing factory space in one of Leicester’s prime industrial trading estates. The commercial property specialist secured a buyer for the 3,514 ft² unit at the Troon Industrial Estate, on Cannock Street, on behalf Samuel James Engineering [...]

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A Midlands engineering firm has launched an appeal to trace former staff so they can share in the celebrations of a special milestone this spring. Thompson Friction Welding will hold a party at Dudley’s Black Country Living Museum in May to mark the 50th anniversary of its first-ever friction weld. The company is not only [...]

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Leading distributor of heating and pipeline solutions BSS Industrial, has lent a helping hand to a selection of charitable causes this winter by giving away over 60 sleeping bags.

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PTS, leading merchant and headline sponsor of PHEX 2012, has been kitting up installers across the UK with prizes including workwear from Scruffs and equipment from Holdon Tools.

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MIRA – the advanced engineering, research and test consultancy – has completed a major upgrade of its Vehicle Exhaust Emissions Laboratory (VEEL) at its site in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The refit, which represents £360,000 worth of investment, includes a new state-of-the-art AVL chassis dynamometer which will provide MIRA’s customers with even greater test accuracy and repeatability, [...]

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A Nottinghamshire technology and engineering firm, Technology 18 Ltd, has undertaken a project in conjunction with the Sustainable Construction iNet (iNet), which could lead to the creation of up to 5 new jobs.

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The pioneering Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry is celebrating a successful first full year in operation. The £40 million centre, on the Ansty Business Park has just signed up its 44th member.

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