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New Year, New Venue, New Opportunities in 2024!
New Year offers from BCIMO: to coincide with the start of the new year, the Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) is launching TWO discount schemes for organisations to benefit from when booking its Meeting & Event Spaces in 2024. From the...
Rail Forum Hosts Inaugural Light Rail Event at BCIMO
Rail Forum was delighted to host its first-ever Light Rail Event on November 23rd at BCIMO’s Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre (VLRNIC) in Dudley. The half-day event brought together industry experts, stakeholders, and members to explore the latest...
Clean Futures Accelerator Insight Day held at BCIMO
The Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) was delighted to host the Clean Futures Accelerator’s first cohort Insight Day in its brand new Meeting and Event Spaces on Monday 13th November. The event was held to introduce the first cohort of...
Clean Futures Accelerator Winning Cohort Announced
Companies delivering greener transport technologies will take part in trials and receive funding and business support as part of the Clean Futures accelerator programme. Twenty firms at the leading edge of efforts to reduce the transport sector’s reliance on fossil...
BCIMO Hosts Inaugural Venturefest Mobile Hub
The Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) was delighted to host the very first Venturefest Mobile Hub at its unique, world-class centre for rail innovation – the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre (VLRNIC) - on Wednesday 15 November. The...
BCIMO Launches State-Of-The-Art Event Facilities
The Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre (VLRNIC), operated by the Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO), has launched its brand-new Meeting and Events Spaces to complement its other unique facilities and services. From November 2023, the...
BCIMO Hosts Demonstration of CVLR Vehicle on Novel Track
The Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) has hosted a successful demonstration of the pioneering Coventry Very Light Rail (CVLR) technology at its unique Rail Development and Test Site in Dudley in the West Midlands. The CVLR project has...
BCIMO Event Bridges Gap Between Network Rail & UKRRIN
The first ever large-scale event to take place at the Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO)’s brand new state-of-the-art facility in the West Midlands has strengthened the bonds between major rail organisations and academic institutions,...
College’s Second Rail Training Centre Gets on Track
Courses offered by City of Wolverhampton College to give people the skills needed to build a career in the rail and infrastructure sectors are set to be expanded with the opening of an additional training site in Dudley. The college and its infrastructure training...
BCIMO Hosts Clean Futures Accelerator Workshops
Applicants for the Clean Futures Accelerator, a West Midlands-based transport transformation programme, have attended two days of Challenge Support Workshops at the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre (VLRNIC) in Dudley to gain insights and understanding of the...
Nicola Richards MP Explores Innovations at BCIMO
Nicola Richards, Member of Parliament for West Bromwich East, recently embarked on a visit to the Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) located in Dudley, as part of the Railway Industry Association's (RIA) Rail Fellowship Programme, which links...
It’s ‘Full Steam Ahead’ for BCIMO and the Clean Futures Accelerator!
Following the opening of applications for the Clean Futures Accelerator, the Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) has announced that it will be holding a series of Challenge Support Workshops to support rail SMEs interested in applying. The...
£50k Funding Grants Available for West Midlands Rail SMEs
The rail industry in the West Midlands is poised to lead the way in transforming transport towards a greener future following Connected Places Catapult, the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and place leadership, announcing the opening of applications...
Funding Available for Businesses with Clean Transport Ideas
The first round of the Clean Futures Accelerator will provide grants of up to £50K, plus expert support, to companies in the West Midlands with ideas to make transport greener. The Accelerator is designed to leverage the region’s rich transport manufacturing heritage,...
Test Driving Future Transport Technologies at the VLRNIC
The Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) has launched a new Mobility Hub and state-of-the-art Transport Systems Simulator at its centre for rail innovation. Head of Engineering and Programmes, Tony Joy, explains how these assets will be used to...
BCIMO Hosts Light Rail Summit as Part of Better Transport Week
The Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO)’s Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre (VLRNIC) played host to an exclusive light rail summit, ‘Light Years Ahead’, as part of Better Transport Week. Organised by advocacy group Campaign for Better...
Clean Futures Accelerator Workshop Sets Out Challenges
A workshop setting out the challenges for the pioneering Clean Futures Accelerator initiative took place last week, with a host of influential organisations spanning the industry in attendance. The Clean Futures Accelerator is a transformation programme led by...
BCIMO’s Blueprint for Innovation in The Black Country
In this guest writer feature, Naomi Arblaster, Head of SME Development at the Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO), explains how she and her team are helping to shape future industries and support Black Country businesses. My team and I have a...
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)...
FT4RI Programme Proves ‘Invaluable’ for West Mids SMEs
SMEs in the West Midlands have gained valuable insights into new opportunities available for developing products and services into the railway supply chain. Business owners and leaders in the region have hailed the first Fast Track 4 Rail Innovation (FT4RI) programme...
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 is a not-for-profit Research and Technology Organisation (RTO) and operator of the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre (VLRNIC), a unique, world-class centre for rail innovation based in Dudley in the West Midlands.
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