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Top 25 Drive systems companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 147 drive systems companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 11,634 professional contacts across them, including 3,355 with verified work emails. Coventry is the largest hub.
This list covers drive systems companies 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 19, 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 drive systems companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,650 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “On February 3, 2026, Dauch Corporation (formerly American Axle & Manufacturing) acquired Dowlais Group plc and its subsidiaries – GKN Automotive and GKN Powder Metallurgy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 822 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “David Brown Santasalo is a leading provider of mechanical power transmission solutions for industrial applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Helix (formerly Integral e-Drive) is a full-service supplier of premium electric powertrains.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Drive System Design (DSD), a Hinduja Tech company, are internationally recognised experts in the rapid development of next-generation electric and hybrid powertrains, internal…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 30 years, Romax Technology has been a global provider of software and services for the design, performance simulation and manufacturing of transmissions and drivelines…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “GKN ePowertrain is the industry leader in electric powertrains and intelligent all-wheel drive systems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Parvalux is the UK's largest manufacturer of fractional horsepower electric motors and gearboxes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Quantum Controls is the UK’s leading supplier of Variable Speed Drives, Electric Motors, and integrated industrial solutions, proudly recognised as the UK Drives and Motor…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1992, Magtec is a UK based company that designs and manufactures electric drive systems and components for a wide range of vehicle types including off-road…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “IAC is the UK's leading Independent systems integrator, specialising primarily in variable speed drive systems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EXEDY Clutch Europe Ltd is pleased to announce the acquisition of selected assets and intellectual property rights from Saietta Group PLC, in administration.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Techni’s engineering team have been the industry technology leaders in belt driven accessory systems for more than 20 Years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Control Techniques, a Nidec company, is the global drives specialist with a long entrepreneurial history.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Located in Welham Green, Hatfield, Davall Gears is a long-established UK manufacturer that designs, develops and manufactures superior custom and build-to-print gears, gearboxes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ETA’s core knowledge and patented technologies deliver market-leading product efficiencies through highly cost-efficient solutions for our customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EMPEL Systems manufactures state-of-the-art integrated electric motor and power electronics modules for the automotive, aerospace, industrial machine, robotic and green-tech…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Experts in Power, Automation, Drives and Control.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ellard is the UK’s largest supplier of drives and controls used to automate industrial doors, shutters, garage doors and blinds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sprint Electric is a world leading designer and manufacturer of AC and DC drives, including the groundbreaking Generis AC regeneration drive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We move the world!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brook Crompton UK LIMITED is an electrical/electronic manufacturing company based out of St Thomas Road, Huddersfield, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Electrified Motors develop power dense and highly efficient electric motors for off-highway and two-wheel applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TEC Electric Motors holds the largest stock of electric motors in the UK, alongside a comprehensive range of gearboxes and inverter drives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NDE Clarke Pitchline Ltd has 47 years of experience in mechanical power transmission technology and today offers a complete full service of gear, spline and drive solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DePe Gear Company is a specialist gear manufacturing company based in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: drive systems companies. 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 drive systems companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of drive systems companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name drive systems companies. 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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Drive systems companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 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 147 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 drive systems companies, 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 “drive systems companies”. 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 drive systems companies), 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 drive systems companies, 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, 3,355 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 19, 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.
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 drive systems companies, 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 drive systems companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 147 drive systems companies 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?
GKN Automotive, headquartered in United Kingdom, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most drive systems companies?
Coventry leads with 6 headquartered companies, followed by Bradford (4) and Huddersfield (4).
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 3,355 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 147 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 19, 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.