New Funding Coming Soon For SMEs To Innovate In UK Rail

New Funding Coming Soon For SMEs To Innovate In UK Rail

New funding and commercial support are on the way for SMEs in the West Midlands to help them to develop innovative products and services that help meet UK rail’s most pressing carbon reduction and sustainable manufacturing challenges. The Clean Futures (CF)...
BCIMO Receives a Royal Seal of Approval

BCIMO Receives a Royal Seal of Approval

The Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) welcomed His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester to the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre (VLRNIC) on 19 April. His visit cemented the centre’s status as an important new transport innovation...
BCIMO Welcomes Chamber Patrons to The VLRNIC

BCIMO Welcomes Chamber Patrons to The VLRNIC

The sun shone this week, (22nd March) as Chamber Patron members from across the West Midlands joined hosts, Black Country Chamber of Commerce, for a tour around two of the region’s major attractions. Hi viz jackets and hard hats donned, twenty-five of the region’s...
Innovation Boost for West Mids Will Drive Place Leadership

Innovation Boost for West Mids Will Drive Place Leadership

Funding announced in the Chancellor’s budget will kick-start projects aimed at making the region a leader in clean tech, health tech and med tech. Connected Places Catapult, the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport and place leadership, will lead two...