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Top 25 Materials science consulting firms based in the United Kingdom

Name: Materials science consulting firms based in the United Kingdom
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026 84 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 84 materials science consulting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 735 professional contacts across them, including 253 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers materials science consulting firms 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 28, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 28, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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735Contacts tracked

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The 25 largest materials science consulting firms based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 84 materials science consulting firms based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to materials science consulting firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Lucideon	Strong evidence	Stone, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	212 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Lucideon is a materials science consultancy, solving your most complex challenges through materials development, process optimisation, and characterisation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
2	Sandberg	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	94 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Sandberg is a privately owned organisation able to provide wholly independent professional and technical services to all concerned with the quality and performance of materials.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
3	R-Tech Group	Partial evidence	Port Talbot, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	26 contacts →
	Partial evidence “R-TECH Group ( Formally R-TECH Materials) provides a comprehensive testing, analysis and consultancy service on all types of engineering materials.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
4	GSL	Indirect evidence	Truro, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	21 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Grinding Solutions, an Alfred H Knight Company, provides a diverse range of metallurgical and mineral processing consultancy and laboratory services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
5	SFA Oxford	Indirect evidence	Oxford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	19 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “For over 20 years, SFA (Oxford) has delivered market-leading research in critical commodities and metal price risk, becoming a world authority.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
6	Keighley Laboratories Limited	Indirect evidence	Keighley, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	19 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Keighley Laboratories Ltd - Specialists in the Analysis, Consultancy and Testing of Metals Keighley Laboratories Limited has been operating since 1920.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
7	Special Metals Wiggin LTD	Indirect evidence	Calver Hill, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	18 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
8	Centre For Industrial Rheology	Partial evidence	Warnford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	17 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Centre for Industrial Rheology provides expert materials characterisation services in the field of: Rheology and Viscosity Surface and Interfacial Characterisation Powder…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
9	LPD LAB Services LTD	Partial evidence	Blackburn, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	16 contacts →
	Partial evidence “LPD Lab Services Limited delivers a 'one-stop shop' for industrial process problem solving and materials analysis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
10	Farnborough Engineering Consultants Limited	Partial evidence	Farnborough, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Partial evidence “OUR SECTORAL EXPERTISE INCLUDES: Iron and Steel • Aluminium • Copper • Silicon • Building Materials • Glass • Industrial Utilities Farnborough Engineering Consultants Limited…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11	ITA Labs	Partial evidence	St Albans, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	11 contacts →
	Partial evidence “ITA Labs is a materials based consultancy and testing company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
12	Argo Engineering	Indirect evidence	Southampton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	9 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Argo Engineering Solutions Ltd is a small engineering consultancy on the edge of the New Forest, close to Southampton and the Solent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
13	DC White Engineering Consultants LTD	Indirect evidence	Guildford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	9 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “DC White has provided engineering insight and analysis on some of the UK’s biggest engineering projects for over 30 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14	Commodity Inside	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	9 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Commodity Inside is an independent privately owned company providing market research, analysis, consulting and training to the commodities market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15	Reactive Components	Indirect evidence	Leicester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Reactive Components Ltd, we are a product development consultancy, offering over 30 years of experience in bringing products to market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
16	ICC	Indirect evidence	Kingston Upon Thames, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “ICC is a leading consultancy within the cement sector and other heavy industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
17	Castings Technology International	Indirect evidence	Rotherham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	4 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Castings Technology International provides advanced casting expertise and manufacturing capabilities, including computer process modelling, design for casting manufacture, rapid…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18	London Petrotech Engineering LTD	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Overview London Petrotech Engineering Ltd delivers three specialist service lines: Engineering Consultancy, Forensic Engineering & Expert Witness, and Training.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19	MRB Engineering Services LTD	Partial evidence	Newcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Partial evidence “MRB Engineering Services offer Materials & Welding Engineering consultancy to support production and fabrication of structures in ferritic, austenitic and corrosion resistant…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20	BDS Marketing Research QMJ Limited	Partial evidence	Nottingham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Partial evidence “BDS Marketing Research (QMJ) Limited is the leading marketing and research consultancy in the minerals, waste and heavy building materials industries, with nearly 30 years'…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21	Anaglyph LTD	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Anaglyph Ltd has been providing cutting-edge technology engineering consultancy services in all aspects of industrial design, analysis and manufacture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22	Larkton LTD	Indirect evidence	Bickerton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Larkton builds on 3 decades of success in independent thinking, innovative problem analysis, system modelling and clear solution definition and execution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23	Lovis Forensic Investigation LTD	Strong evidence	Sandbach, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Independent experts in Materials Science, Metallurgy and Mechanical Engineering supplying impartial advice to Insurers, Loss adjusters, Solicitors, private clients and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24	Prenwell Consulting Limited	Indirect evidence	Butlers Cross, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Consultancy” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25	Orthotropic Engineering LTD	Indirect evidence	Quenington, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Orthotropic offers a comprehensive range of high-quality design services for composite structures and components across the renewable, marine, industrial and transportation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026

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: materials science consulting firms. 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 materials science consulting firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of materials science consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name materials science consulting firms. 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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Materials science consulting firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026

34.4%Verified-email coverage

8.8Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

14.3%Largest-city concentration · London

Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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201-500

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 84 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 materials science consulting firms, 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 “materials science consulting firms”. 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 materials science consulting firms), 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 materials science consulting firms, 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, 253 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 28, 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 materials science consulting firms, 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 materials science consulting firms are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 84 materials science consulting firms 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?

Lucideon, headquartered in Stone, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most materials science consulting firms?

London leads with 12 headquartered companies, followed by Sheffield (3) and Cambridge (2).

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 253 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 84 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 28, 2026.

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About this data

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.