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Top 25 Chemical producers based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 403 chemical producers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 14,507 professional contacts across them, including 6,710 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers chemical producers headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 15, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest chemical producers based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 2,780 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1925 we have been the name behind sustainable, high-performance ingredients and technologies in some of the world’s most successful brands: creating, making and selling…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,996 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Synthomer plc is a leading supplier of high-performance, highly specialised polymers and ingredients that play vital roles in key sectors such as coatings, construction…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,686 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a Specialty Chemicals Company with powerful research and development capabilities around innovative chemistry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,529 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “INEOS Inovyn is Europe's leading producer of vinyls and in the top three worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 620 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “You may not realise it, but THOR’s extraordinary ingredients are likely already a part of your life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 523 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chemistry is at the heart of everyday life, and this is where you’ll find Scott Bader.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Industrial Chemicals Limited (ICL) is a trusted supplier to a diverse range of industries across the UK, Europe, and parts of Asia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lianhetech Seal Sands is a leading European contract manufacturer of high quality fine chemicals for use in the Crop Protection, Pharmaceutical and Performance chemicals markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Briar Chemicals delivers contract and custom manufacturing solutions to customers across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Delivering every element - Tennants Distribution Ltd is a leading independent distributor of chemicals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Colloids is a leading manufacturer and exporter of standard, speciality and bespoke black, white, colour and performance enhancing additives which provides plastics with colour…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Surfachem, a 2M Group company, is an international surfactant and speciality chemical distributor, offering an extensive ingredient portfolio, technical expertise and global…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thomas Swan & Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fine Organics, a Lianhe Chemical Technology business, is a leading European contract manufacturer of high quality fine chemicals for use in the Crop Protection, Pharmaceutical and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “REDA Energy is a leading provider of chemistry solutions and associated services to the energy industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in the North of England almost two centuries ago, James Briggs Ltd is proud to be one of Europe’s largest consumer chemicals businesses today.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Multisol is a market leader in the formulation, blending and distribution of high value fuel and lubricant additives, base oils and speciality chemicals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are Selden Research Ltd, the UK’s largest privately owned industrial manufacturer of cleaning chemical products for the professional market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SNF is a water science global leader whose products contribute to treating, recycling, preserving water, saving energy, and reducing carbon footprint.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Airedale Group manufacture and distribute an extensive range of chemical related products and services Established in 1973 we have been providing chemical distribution for five…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Celtic Renewables patented technology converts low-value byproducts, residues and waste into high-value green chemicals which directly displace chemicals made from gas and oil in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Esseco UK is part of Esseco Industrial, a division of the family-owned italian group Esseco Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The 2M Group of Companies supply added value chemistry-based products, services, and applications know-how to the life science and material science sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1860, Banner supplies an extensive range of solvents and specialty chemicals to a variety of market sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: chemical producers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names chemical producers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of chemical producers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name chemical producers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Chemical producers based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 403 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among chemical producers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “chemical producers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names chemical producers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among chemical producers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 6,710 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 15, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Chemical producers by metro
- Chemical producers in London45
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names chemical producers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many chemical producers are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 403 chemical producers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
CRODA, headquartered in Goole, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most chemical producers?
London leads with 45 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (11) and Leeds (10).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 6,710 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 403 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 15, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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