Have you heard about our Growing Green event yet? Hundreds of designers, sustainable development teams, engineers, buyers and business professionals are descending on West Bromwich on Thursday 18 March, to learn about and source potential manufacturers of emerging environmental products and materials.
By signing up to attend, manufacturing firms can meet with decision-makers and find out how to tap into the multi-billion pound 'green market'. With prestigious seminars delivered by speakers from Rolls Royce Plc, Westinghouse and the Royal Institute of British Architects (to name but a few) and exhibitors from high-profile contractors that include Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Interserve and Vinci, Growing Green promises to be an important day for the West Midlands supply chain. What's more, it's free to attend.
You can download the latest flyer and itinerary here.
There are exciting updates to our plans almost every day, but the aspects of the event we think manufacturers will be most interested in are:
* The chance to meet the project managers and design team behind Sandwell and West Birmingham PCT's forthcoming £380m acute hospital. In turn, the project managers are hoping to meet engineers and manufacturers interested in developing and supplying renewables and energy-efficient building products using low-carbon manufacturing techniques.
* Free CPD-certified seminars, including one entitled 'Powering a better world' from Rolls Royce and the Warwick Manufacturing Group.
* The opportunity to network with hundreds of other like-minded Midlands professionals, including dozens of architects, designers and construction experts who are hoping to source new products and components from forward-thinking companies such as yours.
* The chance to get first glimpses into finditinsandwell's forthcoming Innovation Zone, where designers can post ideas anonymously and manufacturers can share their thoughts and solutions.
You can find more details about Growing Green and sign up here (you'll need to be registered with and logged in to finditinsandwell, which is free and only takes five minutes!). Or you can can call Steve Massey on 0121 569 2105 today or email stephen_massey@sandwell.gov.uk.
[Bulb image: Danilo Rizzuti.]