West Midlands toolmaking firm HCM Engineering has retained Gold ‘Excellent Employer’ status in the Next Gen Makers Engineering Apprenticeships: Employer Accreditation, recognising a family business whose commitment to apprentices stretches back more than four decades.

We are proud to have been awarded the Engineering Apprenticeship Excellent Employer Accreditation. This accreditation is given to a select number of Engineering & Manufacturing businesses in the UK.

Together we do more. Industry leaders, including members of Made in the Midlands, have got together to raise over £10,000 for Race Against Dementia - and the numbers continue to rise.

The UK manufacturing industry is booming: From aerospace engineering to Formula 1; energy production to medical technologies, there's a wealth of exciting opportunities to make your mark.

With concern over trading conditions in a post Brexit and Covid world, one Diecasting Society member company has highlighted how continued investment, a positive attitude and collaborative trading with international partners can offer a solution to the perils of global supply chains.

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HCM Engineering motorsport brake caliper development using our 3D printing capabilities to trial and test before going into manufacture of the production parts.

HCM Engineering’s Managing Director, Simon Hanson, was sent to Australia on a trade mission in 2001 to understand how the Australian automotive casting industry coped with the far eastern competition with countries such as Japan, China, Korean and Singapore.

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HCM Engineering Ltd were chosen to design and manufacture this unique casting program for the worlds most successful truck, the Ford F150.

Yesterday we had a small celebration for the retirement of Tony Winstanley who has been a stalwart of HCM’s technical team for 42 years.

Continued investment, a longstanding and loyal workforce, plus the ambition and capabilities to supply a wide range of blue chip customers have enabled a UK toolmaker to grow in stature over the past 50 years.

HCM support the local community alongside Olympic athletes to support a great charity.

Here is an interesting fact, HCM Engineering Ltd alongside an Austrian Glazing company designed and manufactured the top window frame cornices for the parliamentary minsters offices opposite big ben - "Portcullis house"

Our new apprentice scheme is proving a big success which our apprentices now getting involved in most parts of our business. Please contact Mike Hanson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

William Gamble has officially retired from HCM Engineering and we will all miss him greatly. He has had almost 13 wonderful years working at HCM and we will all miss him exceedingly.

A Lye toolmaking company has completed a £500,000 investment programme as it prepares to mark its 45th anniversary with plans to double in size.

HCM proud to be members of Automotive Industries; UK Tooling Alliance and SMMT!

In the UK there are around 400 foundries. They are located in all parts of the country, with the main concentrations in the Midlands and South Yorkshire (Sheffield) area.

Margot James, MP for Stourbridge, has congratulated Stourbridge firm HCM Engineering on its recent recruitment of six local young people on a five-year apprenticeship.

We are part of a JLR initiative to lobby government to help nurture, train and develop world class engineers back into our industry.

We are proud to announce that after a long bidding process against some fierce competition we can now add Toyota to our ever expanding list of global, blue chip clients. For more information on how HCM can help you please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

We sponsored our customer following years of hard labour and planning to build these machines.

Here at HCM we’d like to congratulate Mobeen Hussain on her recent wedding ceremony!

British Manufacturing is having a re-emergence in its profile and we forget what we actual manufacture contrary to the historical media coverage. Finally we are coming to terms with celebrating what we are capable of as British Engineer’s.

Alan Round officially retired from HCM at the end of october, after 15 years of outstanding service.