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Top 12 Materials science firms based in France
RevenueBase identified 29 materials science firms headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 733 professional contacts across them, including 157 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers materials science firms headquartered in France, 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 20, 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 12 largest materials science firms based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Situé à Cavaillon dans le Vaucluse, à 20 km d’Avignon, Saint-Gobain Research Provence inscrit son activité dans le cadre du groupe Saint-Gobain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “L’Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M) est une unité mixte de recherche Université de Haute-Alsace CNRS UMR7361 spécialisée dans les matériaux et leurs…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Materials and Physical Engineering Laboratory (LMGP) is a research laboratory in materials science and materials for biomedical engineering.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CRITT-MDTS is a research and expertise center specializing in materials, deposits and surface treatments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MatéIS is a Materials Science laboratory that encompasses different fields, namely chemistry, physics and mechanics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Final Advanced Materials est une société d’ingénierie spécialisée dans les matériaux avancés et plus particulièrement les matériaux adaptés aux conditions extrêmes dans…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Analyses et Surface est un laboratoire d'expertises matériaux du Groupe 6NAPSE.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le CERAMATHS est une composante de recherche de l’Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (UPHF).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tortoise offers non-destructive solutions to in the fields of failure analysis and characterization of materials.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ICAR-CM2T, centre d'expertise technique en Matériaux Réfractaires et Métalliques, vous apporte les solutions pour vos matériaux en conditions extrêmes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PALLADIAM - matériaux et technologies avancés Palladiam a été créée en 1993 par des spécialistes ayant assumé d’importantes responsabilités sur l’ensemble de la filière «Matériaux…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OPTIK-C est avant tout expert des matériaux durs (Céramiques, Macor, zircone, quartz, zerodur, etc.).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: materials science 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 firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of materials science 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 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 firms based in France at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 29 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 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “materials science 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 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 firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 157 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 20, 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 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 firms are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 29 materials science firms headquartered in France 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?
Saint-Gobain Research Provence, headquartered in Cavaillon, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most materials science firms?
Paris leads with 3 headquartered companies, followed by Montpellier (2) and Toulouse (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 157 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 29 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 20, 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.
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