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Coventry & Warwickshire is  a long-established centre of manufacturing industry, with well-developed supply chains and expertise including tool-making, metal pressings, light-weight materials, automation and systems integration, prototyping, logistics and low volume specialist build.

The birthplace of the modern bicycle and UK volume car production today continues to be a major UK centre of low and zero carbon green transport technologies, including aerospace, automotive, off-highway, rail and marine propulsion.

Locating your manufacturing business in Coventry & Warwickshire provides access to a unique manufacturing eco-system of OEMs, specialist supply chain and skills, and, leading university, research and centres of support for manufacturing technologies.

Automotive
Aerospace
rail
Low carbon
& energy

IN GOOD COMPANY - THE KEY PLAYERS

The area is particularly strong in R&D activity and specialist manufacturing, with a supply chain including global names like Aston Martin, Bosch, BMW, Fanuc, Tenneco Federal Mogul, GE, Grupo Antolin, Jaguar Land Rover, Parker and Siemens.​

Key technologies at the MTC include ​Robotics and Automation, Digital and Additive Manufacturing, Metrology and Visualisation and Virtual Reality.​

​WMG​ specialises in Connected and Autonomous Systems, Advanced Propulsion Systems, Batteries and Energy Storage, Lightweight and Sustainable Materials and Digital Manufacturing

Coventry & Warwickshire is home to ​2 of the UK 7 Advanced Manufacturing Catapult Centres​, located at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) and WMG at the University of Warwick. ​

An excellent skills supply is supported by a strong ​FE and HE sector​, and a number of unique facilities to create the engineers of tomorrow and upskill existing talent and management.​

​The Institute of Advanced Manufacturing​ and Engineering is a collaboration between Coventry University and Unipart Manufacturing Group to create the UK’s first ‘Faculty on the Factory Floor.’ It delivers the very best teaching in a real-world manufacturing environment

RDM autonomous vehicle
Coventry is one of England’s great cities with an inspiring, world-famous history – lying in the very heart of England. The area’s economic geography is a massive asset and one which we feel the advantages of in our business. We also enjoy all of the benefits of the city’s rich tradition in manufacturing excellence - we know here that we can recruit the right people, with the right skills and that there is a steady stream of people leaving the city’s two fantastic universities who want to show employers just what they can do.
DAVID KEENECEO, RDM
DAVID KEENE
The Midlands has historically been, and currently remains, the heartland of the automotive sector. For many key global players this region is the central focus of their European operations. There are many reasons for this including access to skills, the very significant industry cluster, world class manufacturing technology, research & development capabilities and infrastructures all backed by a very strong sector relevant academic network.
Commercial Director, MIRA Technology Park

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