One of Birmingham’s oldest manufacturing companies is using high-tech engineering to recreate shop blind and awning components not made since the art deco 1920s.Read
One of the biggest aerospace projects involving scores of Midlands firms has reached fruition with the delivery of the first Boeing 787 ‘Dreamliner’.Read
A business group has pressed the Government to do more to cut “burdens” on employers, including tackling the “overly-complex” approach to identifying alternatives to regulation.Read
Factories should open their doors to schoolchildren in an effort to rid manufacturing of its image problem, Business Secretary Vince Cable has said.Read
Administrators for a Coventry engineering firm say it collapsed after “inaccuracies in management accounts” led to a lack of confidence from lenders.Read
A series of manufacturing best practice workshops are heading to the West Midlands this week with the aim of helping companies overcome rising raw material costs and fluctuating exchange rates.Read
Jaguar Land Rover has been swamped by 30,000 job applications in the last year – including more than 8,000 for its largest ever intake of graduates.Read
The family who owned Kidderminster carpet-maker Brintons for more than two centuries claim the historic firm was “pulled from under their feet” by US private equity giant Carlyle.Read
