For the second year running, Sandwell Council has won an award at the Federation of Small Businesses’ (FSB) Staffordshire and West Midlands Local Authority ‘Small Business Friendly Awards’. This year we were successful in the ‘Best “Small Business Friendly” Programme or Campaign’ category thanks to our pioneering West Midlands Virtual Hospital and related work in […]

The state of the UK manufacturing industry has been turbulent over the past few years due to the international economic downturn. Many firms in the West Midlands are still feeling the resulting uncertainty. However, some businesses are emerging from the recession stronger than ever, thanks to overseas demand for British-made goods, and the growing automotive […]

Road access to the Black Country is already excellent, but with £1.8bn of government investment recently designated to improve the capacity and condition of roads in the Midlands, our region is set to become an even better place to do business. Highways England has recently set out how £1.8bn of government investment will improve the […]

Is your business in the food industry? Innovate UK has just launched a £10m Optimising Food Composition competition which you may be interested in entering. The competition is looking to boost firms that can reduce either salt, sugar, fat and/or increase dietary fibre across the whole food chain from primary production to food manufacturing. It […]

A world-leading manufacturer of alloy wheels has extolled the virtues of its Black Country location for doing business. Rimstock is an approved supplier to car manufacturers that include Aston Martin, Bentley, Lotus and Mercedes-Benz. Its West Bromwich headquarters rank among the largest and most advanced design and manufacturing facilities for wheel production in the UK. […]

Sandwell firm Future Garments Ltd has been appointed as a supplier to the Crown Commercial Service (CCS). Future Garments (trading as Eurox), based on Buttress Way in Smethwick, designs, manufactures and supplies safety products including personal protective equipment, footwear, clothing and accessories. The company describes itself as having over ’30 years’ experience in providing head-to-toe […]

Think Sandwell, in conjunction with Carillion – the UK’s leading integrated support services company and the preferred bidder to build the £430m Midland Metropolitan hospital in Smethwick – is unveiling a state-of-the-art BIM (Building Information Modelling) Technologies and Skills Development suite at an event on 8th October. The BIM Technologies and Skills Development Suite will […]

The managing director of a high-tech Black Country manufacturing firm has thanked the Think Sandwell team for our role in helping his company secure over half a million pounds’ worth of grant funding to expand its operations. A & T Enclosures of Brierley Hill in Dudley makes specialist enclosures for electrical equipment. Its product range […]

The Midlands Construction Summit is a combined conference and exhibition first held in 2014. The inaugural event was declared a great success, attracting over 300 innovators, leaders, supply chain specialists and industry stalwarts, operating across all key construction sectors – congregating to debate and deliberate on the content of the joint Industry and Government 2025 […]