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Envisage is hoping for success at the Made in the Midlands Awards next week after recently opening a new multimillion-pound design studio in the region. Its chairman Bryan Williams told Insider that his business has "never been so busy" and hailed the Midlands as the having the best skills base in the country.

Envisage is battling it out in the Technology Transfer Award category against Morgan Motor Company and Malthouse Engineering. Famous politician Michael Portillo has been confirmed as the host for the glittering ceremony at Coventry's Ricoh Arena on Tuesday 1 November.

Envisage is a growing design and design engineering organisation which encompasses a range of businesses involved with supplying specialist services and turnkey products to the global transport industry. It has a focus on the design stage of the product development cycle offering services in engineering, IT, design and recruitment.

Williams told Insider: "We have just opened our new design studio, which is state-of-the-art on the Binley Estate (in Coventry) where all the skilled labour to support the staff. We stopped in the Midlands as that's where the best craftsmen are. It still is a powerhouse.

"In our business, we have never been so busy."

Williams said the £23m-turnover business, which has a total of four sites, had spent £2.5m on the fit-out of the new site alone and it followed awards success for its work with Volkswagen. The chairman said Envisage is the only business to work on design projects with Honda outside of Japan and Volkswagen outside of Germany.

Envisage is also heavily involved with projects with Coventry and Warwick universities to develop skills and projects. Williams added: "We are taking automotive technology and taking across the best planes and trains part of the business and using all of our experience."

The Insider Made in the Midlands Awards are Midlands Business Insider magazine's celebration of manufacturers and manufacturing in the region.

The evening will also offer manufacturers the opportunity to meet together and as always with events such as this, to make new contacts and to gain valuable insight from talking to others in the same industry.

As this is an inaugural event, we expect demand for tables to be high. Should you wish to reserve a table, complete the reservation form which you can access by clicking here and return it to us as soon as possible. Table reservations will be held for ten days only, pending payment, and will be booked on a first come, first-served basis.

Should you require any further information, contact Andrea Jenkins on 0161 907 9705. To view the full shortlist, click here.