Three years after the launch of the Advanced Engineering and Polymer Cluster Centres, their teams are delighted that these projects have now been awarded further funding from the European Regional Development Fund. An overall package of over £8 million worth of funding will enable the Cluster projects to continue to offer the business support activities they have been providing so successfully to June 2008 and roll out their experience...

Recently appointed as the new Advanced Engineering Cluster Champion, Jit Gatcha is no stranger to the team or the project’s objectives. Jit joins from the University of Wolverhampton’s Innovative Product Development Centre, where, as Senior Marketing Associate, he focused on helping Cluster companies’ business development activities....

What do you do with your personal valuables when you’re on the beach or by the pool and fancy a dip in the water, or when the family want to play a game or build a sandcastle? Roll them in a towel or put them in your shoes? Working out this puzzle gave Mohamed Elsayed of Coventry an inspiration that has now developed into an exciting new business venture, thanks to the Telford-based Polymer Cluster...

Even in this age of the automobile, our feet are faced with several challenges. Not in just supporting our weight and moving us around, but in coping with footware fashions and often a lack of general day-to-day care. Bunion sufferers know these painful formations can run in families but are often caused by badly-fitting footwear. A bunion forms as an attempt to protect against pressure....

The enterprising winner of the Advanced Engineering Cluster Environmental Technology Award, Maxsys Ltd., has recently secured a seven figure venture capital investment to help expand its workforce to cope with demand after a record-breaking year for sales.

Walsall-based Maxsys Ltd supplies its patented energy saving equipment across a wide range of industries, including food and drink, chemicals, paper, steel, minerals, textiles, cement, pharmaceuticals, glass, printing, rubber, manufacturing and bricks, as well as process and space heating for the public and private sectors....

The Advanced Engineering Cluster is delighted to report that Rojac Tooling Technologies of Wednesbury received the award of Toolmaker of the Year at the Metalworking Production Awards 2006, which took place on Tuesday 16th May at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole.

Specialising in the design and manufacture of mould tooling for a wide range of applications, Rojac makes extensive use of web-based project management using its own, in-house developed system, allowing secure 24/7 customer access. Rojac's system includes online CAD viewers, live web cams, timing plans, photos and documents.....