Manufacturing

Engineering & Fabrication specialists WEC Group have announced a major Apprenticeship recruitment drive at their newly built Engineering & Welding Academy in Blackburn, Lancashire, as well as their Knowsley, Rotherham, Coventry, and Sherburn-In-Elmet based divisions.

A specialist R&D engineering company, which provides solutions to some of the world’s most challenging environmental threats, has won its most significant accolade to date – the Queens Award for Enterprise.

An Exeter-based company with over 25 years in oilfield innovation has been honoured with the highest accolade a business can receive – The Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade.

In 1989, Mike Riding, a young graduate technical sales person was visiting a sister company, VG Elemental Ltd., and witnessed the raising of a flag outside the company headquarters in Cheshire.

Nottinghamshire manufacturer Interflex is celebrating the award of a £254,000 grant as part of a programme offering £16 million funding from the Department for Business Energy and Industrial strategy (BEIS).

Seven Bro7Hers Brewing Co will be launching two of its signature beers across select ASDA superstores in its first major supermarket deal.

Mobile phone accessories manufacturer, juice®, has been shortlisted in the ‘Accessory Manufacturer of the Year’ category at the Mobile Industry Awards (MIAs) 2021.

Crewe-based Wrights Food Group has appointed two new senior members of the team whose combined focus includes environmental, ethical and wellbeing issues.

Ambitious independent logistics operator Europa Worldwide Group which has three sites based in the East Midlands, has appeared for the first time in The Sunday Times Profit Track 100 2021, which ranks Britain’s 100 private companies with the fastest-growing profits (over their latest three years).

Bristol-based entrepreneurs, who have developed techniques to incorporate graphene into Li-ion batteries to improve battery life and charging times while reducing their cost, have raised roughly £1.2 million from investors in a new funding round. 

Northwood Companies has been ranked No 30 in the 22nd annual Sunday Times BDO Profit Track 100. It is the first time that the group has been named in the league table.

The largest survey of small to medium-sized (SME) manufacturing companies in the West Midlands has been launched today to record trends in performance and confidence levels across the sector, whilst also exploring how firms are supporting their staff as a result of COVID-19.

Total supply chain solutions provider Oakland International has obtained BRCGS AA Grade accreditation across all three sites of their Group.

Bristol-based Avon Group has made its second key acquisition in the last six months - consolidating the company’s position as a major player in the UK industrial component manufacturing sector.

Kinaxia Logistics has agreed a five-year warehousing contract with iconic toy firm James Galt & Co.

Burton based roof tile manufacturer Russell Roof Tiles has strengthened its management team to meet growing customer demand.

The Vita Group, Europe’s leading flexible foam solutions provider, has launched a bold new sustainability strategy laying down the group’s aspirations and objectives across the full range of its product portfolio.

Staffordshire-based handrail and balustrade specialists, SMART Balustrades, has expanded its team as it works towards its ambitious 35% year-on-year growth target for 2021 - following a record year in 2020. 

The power of young minds has played a key role in the launch of a new modular tooling approach that is enabling the rapid development of new nose clip designs for use in face coverings all over the world.

The Royal Mint has appointed Shimi Shah as a Non-Executive Director. Shimi has over 25 years of investment and international expansion expertise, and will support the business develop and deliver its diversity and inclusivity strategy.

West Midlands Trains is hoping to attract new talent to the rail industry as it launches four Engineering Apprenticeships.

Bot-Hive, the world’s largest online platform for robotics and automation technology, announces that it is partnering with Visual Components, one of the leading developers of 3D manufacturing simulation software.

Adept Civil and Structural Consulting Engineers is expanding its team with a raft of new appointments at its Manchester city centre office, and the company plans to create further jobs later this year.

Throughout the period of lockdown, Winsford- based UK Container Maintenance (UKCM) invested its time into finding additional ways to further enhance the services it provides for its customers, adopting a sophisticated new digital software.

An exciting tie-up between two businesses in the Black Country and Shropshire is delivering a ‘Galvanizing’ world first.

Make UK is using this year’s World Engineering Day (March 4th) to call upon employers in the Midlands to offer the next generation of engineers the opportunity to shape both their careers and the future of ‘Engineering for A Healthy Planet’ - the theme for 2021.

Southgate Packaging, Europe’s leading supplier of packaging equipment, is celebrating after featuring for the first time in The Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200.

In June 2021, Feritech will open its state of the art manufacturing facility on a 3 acre site just outside Falmouth.

Precision engineers A&M EDM are proud to be pioneers as UK manufacturers to achieve the Thrive at Work accreditation for improving employee health and wellbeing.

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) has selected engineering led construction firm Burns & McDonnell to be part of its new RIIO T2 EPC construction Framework for Substations. 

Specialist engineering company P Ducker Systems has appointed a new managing director from within its ranks to succeed long-serving Mike Rose.

Armada Engineering, a Falmouth based leader in marine hydraulics, has expanded its workshop in Barcelona, as part of its commitment to deliver worldwide services to the growing superyachts sector.

Seeking to help fix societal issues around youth skills development in the STEM sector, leading engineering business adi Group marks 2021 with the five-year anniversary of its unique pre apprenticeship scheme.

As Chinese New Year passes, the North West has continued to strengthen trading relationships with the Chinese market, with total exports passing the £10bn mark in the last six years.

Renowned textile mill AW Hainsworth have published their 2021 Sustainability Update, which follows on from the in-depth Sustainability Report that was launched at the beginning of last year.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching impacts on just about every industry and sector. But arguably, none have been as damaging than its effects on education.

YLUK has renewed its contract with BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Europe’s largest manufacturer of home appliances and one of the leading companies in the sector worldwide.

The West of England Combined Authority is bidding to host a Great Western Freeport that could create up to 50,000 jobs in the region and 90,000 nationally.

Gin makers SIS4ERS Distillery has appointed The Lowedown to run its press office and launch a new ‘top secret’ line in Spring 2021.

A trade deal signed by South West organisations including one from Somerset and representatives from China at the end of last year has been extended this month (February 2021) to include manufacturing.

Planned £11.8m expansion will add three new sound stages to Bristol’s studio

Two of the most established and prestigious bookbinders in the UK have joined forces to offer exemplary bookbinding and archival digitisation services to libraries, businesses and individuals.

Pharmaceutical and health product specialist group Wasdell has created more than 100 additional jobs since last November in order to fulfil new contracts for products to combat Covid-19.

Midlands recruitment company Consilium Recruit has secured a deal to work on a project which aims to decarbonise maritime transport.

The founders of small-batch gin brand The Apiarist have introduced a new ‘Forager Edition’ of the spirit to market, containing the same rich, sweet honey base as the original signature version but finished with a special ‘forager’s tea’.

For the second year in a row John Farrer & Co, Kendal, has picked up a Feefo Gold Service customer service award, which follows on from the company’s recent success in the annual Great Taste Awards

Proto Labs, Inc. (NYSE: PRLB), a global technology-enabled digital manufacturing leader, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 3D Hubs, Inc.

Manchester-based civil engineering specialists P.P O’Connor Group Limited have joined the growing number of British businesses supporting construction of Britain’s new railway, High Speed Two.

Small to medium-sized (SME) manufacturers in the West Midlands are being encouraged to have their say on trading beyond Brexit as part of the latest Manufacturing Barometer.

Steel which is easy to clean in order to keep sanitised is being used to create innovative modular meeting rooms allowing care home residents to meet their families safely.

The Bristol-based Centre for Modelling & Simulation (CFMS), a not-for-profit specialist in digital engineering, has appointed Nick Sturge MBE as its first Non-Executive Director.

Optilan, the leading communications, safety, and security systems integrator is delighted to announce the official opening of its new office in Mumbai, India.

The Vita Group, the UK’s leading providers of polyurethane foam, has underlined its commitment to further international expansion with the acquisition of Italian foam manufacturer I.M.P.E. S.p.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of Natuzzi based in Naples.

EAS, the Midlands-based automation company is celebrating a record year achieving sales in excess of £820,000, in only its fifth year of trading, and the company has set an ambitious target to surpass the £1m mark in 2021.

Contact Originators (‘Contact’), the innovation-led UK packaging origination, graphics management and flexographic plates manufacturer, has announced the promotion of two key employees who have both enjoyed lengthy careers with the company.

Manchester based, family-owned cosmetics manufacturer Amelia Knight has been selected as part of the London Stock Exchange Group’s