Over 2,160 jobs in manufacturing supply chains are to be created or safeguarded following the award of £30m of government money, with a further £50m being leveraged from private sector partners.

The investments will finance and strengthen 11 manufacturing supply chain projects across the automotive, aerospace and chemical sectors – two of which are in the North-East of England, with the remaining nine in or around Birmingham, as per the specific targeting of one portion of the funding.

The 2,160 figure is according to the bid documents submitted by the companies who were informed yesterday by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) that their pitches had been successful.

Business secretary Vince Cable says: “Over half the UK’s exports and almost three quarters of our business research & development activity is in manufacturing, so it’s vital that we create the right conditions to encourage growth in the industry.”

A full list of the projects, companies and locations follows:

Stream 1 (open to organisations nationally)

Project name: ‘The Proving Factory’

Location: Rotherham, Yorkshire

Lead organisation: Productiv Ltd

Partners: Tata Steel, Bladon Jets, Drive Systems Design Ltd, Flybrid Systems LLP, Libralto Engines Ltd, Zytek Ltd, Aeristech Ltd, Unipart Eberspacher Exhaust Systems Ltd, MIRA Ltd and MTC Ltd

‘BioMOD’

Location: Wilton, Tees Valley

Lead organisation: Centre for Process Innovation Ltd

Partners: ECOSYL Products Ltd, BioProcess Engineering Services Ltd, National Renewable Energy Centre Ltd and University of Leeds 

Stream 2 (Birmingham and surroundings only)

‘High Strength Glass Manufacture’

Location: St Helens, North West

Lead organisation: NGF EUROPE

‘Indestructible Paint Ltd - Production growth development programme’

Location: Birmingham, West Midlands

Lead organisation: Indestructible Paint

‘Automated Body-in-Black Architectures’

Location: Coventry, West Midlands

Lead organisation: Penso Consulting

‘Turbocharger Housing Machining’

Location: Walsall, West Midlands

Lead organisation: Chamberlin

‘EXAMP’

Location: Coventry, West Midlands

Lead organisation: Expert Tooling & Automation

‘Manufacturing expansion in the Midlands’

Location: Walsall, West Midlands

Lead organisation: ZF Lemforder UK

‘Collaborate to Growth’

Location: Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, West Midlands

Lead organisation: Advance Consultancy

Partners: Agile Business Solutions (UK), Midland Aerospace Alliance, University of Liverpool and Aventa UK

‘Business and Capacity Improvement Project’

Location: Birmingham, West Midlands

Lead organisation: QPP

‘Aluminium Low Pressure Die Casting Manufacturing Company – NewCo’

Location: Coventry, West Midlands

Lead organisation: King Automotive Systems