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Dearer energy bills likely as report praises producers
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Experts are predicting that manufacturers face a return to spiralling energy bills – just as a new report claims production firms are turning the corner.
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LDV creditors set to receive less than 1p in the pound
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Hundreds of creditors of van-maker LDV are set to receive “little or nothing” following its £75 million crash – with paltry dividends of less than 1p in the pound.
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Black Country aerospace group Hampson Industries lands £18m jet deal
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Black Country aerospace group Hampson Industries has landed an £18 million contract amidst signs that its previously frozen markets were beginning to thaw.
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Cash for bangers scheme to boost Inchcape profits
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Car dealership Inchcape is speeding to better than expected profits after a major boost from the ‘cash for bangers’ scrappage scheme.
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Booming Midland print firm in hunt for more local business
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A West Midlands printing company is pressing towards success after a major expansion.
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JCB donates equipment for Sumatra earthquake relief
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Digger-maker JCB is donating equipment worth £153,000 to help the disaster relief effort in the city of Padang following the devastating earthquake that struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra on September 30.
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G&O Springs receives award for SC21 success
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An international spring manufacturer was named one of the first West Midlands companies to receive a recognition award within the SC21 programme, at a major conference for aerospace and defence suppliers.
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Injured worker led to Midland firm being fined £10,000 by court
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A Tipton-based firm has been fined £10,000 for breaching health and safety laws following a worker’s fall at a warehouse.
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Coventry firm which manufactures unmanned vehicles officially opens extended facilities
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A Midland company which manufactures some of the most sophisticated unmanned vehicles has officially opened its newly extended facilities.
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Charity WWF in low carbon economy call
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The world must start a “complete” shift to a low carbon economy by 2014 or risk making dangerous climate change almost inevitable, according to a new a report.
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Nuneaton-based Triton recruits graduates to boost talent pool
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Nuneaton-based shower manufacturer Triton Showers has take on five new recruits into its Graduate Programme,
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Experience is key in appointment of new chairman for Umeco
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Advanced composite materials and supply chain services firm Umeco has appointed Neil Johnson as its new chairman.
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Kenneth Clarke calls sale of LDV 'a disaster' for Washwood Heath
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The demise of LDV and the sale of its assets to Chinese owners is a “disaster” for Washwood Heath, the Shadow Secretary for Business Kenneth Clarke has admitted.
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Car makers alarmed at EU’s new free trade deal with South Korea
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The European Union and South Korea have initialled a free trade deal despite protests from EU car makers which fear Asian competition while having to mothball plants and cut production themselves.
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Jobs boost as Bloxwich firm takes over Walsall rival
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A Bloxwich diecasting firm has taken over a rival in a deal that will grow revenues by a fifth – just months after it was itself bought out.
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Help needed for community as LDV assets set to be moved out
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Business leaders and politicians have welcomed the sale of LDV but have now called for help to be targeted at the community around the former Washwood Heath site.
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Motorists will be winners as Formula 1 goes green
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A new Formula One rule that decrees gearboxes must last for more than one race could result in longer life and greater reliability for those in road cars.
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West Midlands electric vehicles specialist with US Government connections
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A West Midland specialist in electric vehicle drivetrains will provide advanced technology for a US Government-backed electric commercial vehicle programme.
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Caparo AP Braking short-listed for Lord Stafford Awards
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A device to prevent motorists from accidentally refuelling their diesel vehicle with petrol has landed a Warwickshire firm a place in the finals of the Lord Stafford Awards.
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Birmingham City Council sad to see van production end at LDV
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Birmingham City Council has expressed disappointment over the news that van production at LDV will not be resuming after the company is sold to a Chinese vehicle engineering firm.
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LDV Birmingham factory bought by MG Rover advisor Qu Li
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The Chinese businesswoman named in the MG Rover report as ex-director Nick Stephenson’s lover has bought LDV’s assets – and looks set to move the operation to Longbridge.
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Agency worker rights delay ‘very serious electoral mistake’
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A senior union leader has told the Government it made a “very serious electoral mistake” by delaying the introduction of new rights for agency workers.
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GKN sees sales increase thanks to scrappage scheme
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Engineering giant GKN has jumped back into profitability after a slight sales increase in its third quarter – aided by the Government’s scrappage programme.
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Ƶ Coal charged over deaths of Daw Mill Colliery miners
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Ƶ Coal and two managers at the group’s last remaining West Midlands colliery are to be prosecuted following three deaths at the flagship mine in just eight months.
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