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Top 20 Surfactant manufacturers based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 27 surfactant manufacturers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 1,023 professional contacts across them, including 439 with verified work emails. Manchester is the largest hub.
This list covers surfactant manufacturers 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 18, 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 20 largest surfactant manufacturers based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Holiferm develops processes for and manufactures innovative, green and sustainable biosurfactants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Libra Speciality Chemicals, we have been setting the standards in the provision of high-quality chemical and speciality surfactant manufacturing for over 50 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PennWhite is a leading manufacturer of foam control agents sold under the FoamDoctor® brand and of other speciality chemicals sold to more than 50 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in Lankem Ltd is a UK-based manufacturer of speciality surfactants and performance additives, supporting a wide range of industrial sectors including coatings, emulsion…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The White Sea and Baltic Company Ltd is a leading distributor of speciality chemicals, offering a wide range of chemicals to customers in both the UK and abroad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “J1 Technologies is a speciality chemical company focused on the development of formulated products and surface active agents through application testing and research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For more than 100 years, TR Bonnyman Son & Company Ltd has successfully manufactured and marketed a range of top quality vehicle cleaning and preparation chemicals, including…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CHT UK is part of the CHT Group, a global producer of speciality chemicals supplying the textile, construction, and general industries, including automotive, aerospace and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With expertise in product development and manufacturing, technical support and quality assurance, plus our flexible product development facilities, we are able to manufacture not…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SURFACTANTS LIMITED since 2002, specialises in the provision and application of surfactants and associated products to the chemical industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Based near Manchester, Lakeland is a well established manufacturer of Speciality Surfactants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GRI Group is a manufacturer, distributor and brand owner supplying customers globally and operating in the 3 key following areas: 1.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Friendly Chemical Co is a young company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MULTEX (established in the year 1974) is the leading manufacturer of an extensive range of high performance cleaning products & chemicals from general cleaning and maintenance, to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Teepol is the longest established detergent manufacturer in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a chemical manufacturing company which specialise in creating and manufacturing pH neutral detergents for industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 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: surfactant manufacturers. 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 surfactant manufacturers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of surfactant manufacturers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name surfactant manufacturers. 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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Surfactant manufacturers based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 18, 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 27 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 surfactant manufacturers, 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 “surfactant manufacturers”. 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 surfactant manufacturers), 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 surfactant manufacturers, 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, 439 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 18, 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 surfactant manufacturers, 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 surfactant manufacturers are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 27 surfactant manufacturers 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?
Thor Group, headquartered in Wincham, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most surfactant manufacturers?
Manchester leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by Birkenhead (2) and Leeds (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 439 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 27 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 18, 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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