Dagenham dream: The project will create more than 300 jobs and the plant will turn out up to 500,000 low carbon two-litre diesel engines a year for cars and vans including the new Mondeo Ford yesterday announced a £190m investment to build new engines at its plant in Essex. The project will create more than 300 jobs and the Dagenham plant will turn out up to 500,000 low carbon two-litre diesel engines a…

Hundreds of jobs have been protected after Ford took back ownership of a Merseyside plant in what’s been described as a "huge show of confidence" in the UK automotive industry. The iconic Ford sign is back up in Halewood after the deal for the transmission plant was completed on Monday, with the car manufacturing giant taking over the remaining 50% of the site. The factory, which makes transmission systems…

Sheffield Forgemasters recently announced that it has won a GBP 5 million casting contract for German press builder SMS Meer. The contract will run over a year and will see Forgemasters produce five castings for Europe's largest 12,000 tonne open die forging press at Völklingen in Germany. The project, on behalf of Forge Saar a subsidiary company of Saarstahl AG, is on such a vast scale that the foundation…

Sheffield Forgemasters International has won a £1.75m contract to make giant castings for a massive plate mill, destined for Russia. The Brightside Lane firm is making four castings that will be bolted together to create the housing for the mill, which is being built by German steel plant manufacturer SMS Demag for Russian steel giant, United Metallurgical Company. When complete, the mill will weigh more…

Sheffield Forgemasters' steel and engineering business has a proud past, but now technology is the flame attracting new customers Sheffield Forgemasters sounds like a relic from Britain’s industrial past, perhaps where the characters in The Full Monty worked before they had to resort to stripping. But, quite simply, it isn’t. The steel foundry and engineering business makes advanced components for blue-chip…

Castle Fine Arts Foundry has been named the best small business in Wales in the British Small Business Champions 2008 awards. Started in 1990, it is classed as one of the UK’s leading bronze casting foundries and employs 30 people at three branches in Oswestry, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant in mid Wales and Gloucestershire. It has produced and installed sculpture all over the world. One scheme was for the Armed…

A Walsall-based foundry business has announced the closure of an operation in the East Midlands after incurring a near £400,000 first half loss. Chamberlin announced a statutory post-tax loss of £391,000 in the first half (2015: loss of £367,000) – prompting the decision to close the factory in Leicester, which it said was the least specialised of its three foundries. Overall, the firm said results for the…

Walsall foundry group Chamberlin has narrowed its losses as the company got to grips with problems at a new machining centre. Profit margins improved during the year as the company tackled the issues with the machining cells at Walsall, as revenue performance demonstrated a wider picture of growth and development, rising 17 per cent year-on-year to £37.7 million. After accounting for restructuring costs,…

An historic iron foundry in Walsall accused of polluting the air with harmful chemicals has paid out more than £1 million following a five-year battle. More than 150 residents campaigned to get the Government and Walsall Council to dust emissions from Chamberlin & Hill Castings, in Chuckery Road. Today the company, which had breached Government air standards 70 times in one year alone, confirmed it had…

A foundry in the Black Country which axed 35 jobs and put staff on a three-day week to cope with a slump in orders will return to five days production from next week after attracting £3 million in deals. But bosses at Chamberlin & Hill in Walsall, which manufactures castings, today said there were no immediate plans to reinstate lost jobs. The factory, based in Chuckery Road, Chuckery, has told its shop…