Coventry-based Sarginsons Industries, acknowledged as a “world-leader in light-weighting”, recently announced a major investment to upgrade to its manufacturing facility to accommodate future growth.

The company is now ‘pressing ahead’ with a new laboratory that will be used to enhance the measurement, chemical analysis and material testing of components for customers that include major automotive companies; it has also recruited three degree-level apprentices from the WMG Academy in Warwick.

They will join the company later this year.

Sarginsons’ managing director, Anthony Evans, said: “We were struggling to find suitable premise that would allow us to expand, so we have come up with plans to ‘over roof’ our current property to create the space we need to meet our growth aspirations; and like many other manufacturing companies, we also recognised that there was a shortage of skills when we were looking to grow our workforce.

“With the WMG Academy and Coventry University we have created a very clear pathway over the past few years to grow our own talent.

“The three apprentices who are joining us this year are the first recruits forming part of that programme.”