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Top 25 Tooling design services based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 254 tooling design services headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 1,183 professional contacts across them, including 346 with verified work emails. Birmingham is the largest hub.
This list covers tooling design services 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 tooling design services based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Petford Group offers a range of services for many different industries with our 3 main key areas being: • Complex Toolmaking / In house tool design (CAD/ CAM) • Engineering…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nordell are a Plastic Injection Moulding, Assembly and tool making company that provides technical solutions and Design for Manufacture (DFM) support for our customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Offering turn-key tooling solutions for the composites industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Advance your manufacturing processes and maximise your tooling assets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here at Almond we believe that the key to long-term success lies in customer service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RP Technologies are the UK's leading manufacturer of complex aluminium injection mould tooling along with prototype and production components.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MetLase is an electro-mechanical engineering company whose patented mechanical fixing technology, and digital expertise, allow us to design and manufacture bespoke, Industry 4.0…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “JC Moulding is a UK-based company, specialising in the manufacture of plastic injection moulded products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Chess Plastics, we are dedicated to staying ‘Ahead of the field’ in the plastic injection moulding industry to deliver a first-class service to our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As part of the discoverIE group of companies we design, manufacture and assemble custom plastic enclosures for a range of sectors and industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a Precision Engineering company providing bespoke services including: Machining, Manufacture, CAD Design & Development, Reverse Engineering, Packaging &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Phoenix Pattern and Tool was established in 1985 by Chris Johnson and his father Tom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Plunkett Associates, established in 2005 by Tim Plunkett, is synonymous with innovative solutions to complex customer projects.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “GoTools Limited is a precision tool engineering and toolmaking company with a very clear objective – designing and manufacturing performance tooling.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Larkshill Engineering has been established over 30 years, being one of the Midlands's foremost specialists in the design and manufacture of precision machine tools and associated…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HT Tooling Solutions Limited was established in 1991 with the aim of manufacturing highly technical injection mould tools to the highest standards, whilst still remaining…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1968 Riley & Shutt (tools) Ltd offers the very best CNC tooling available.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are an established design and engineering business providing a range of specialised services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Based in the UK 's central location of Stratford Upon Avon, here at Savcon we have got the combined experience of over 300 years in the industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “XL Tooling is a privately owned precision toolmaking company specifically supplying the injection moulding industries in plastics and die casting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We offer an all-round supply and service of all your tooling requirements supported by quality British manufacturers, and some of the best tooling companies from around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Formerly known as PTSM Ltd.~ Specialising predominantly in CNC precision engineering and design, Ion Precision have the skills to supply a wide variety of industries and markets…” 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: tooling design services. 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 tooling design services.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of tooling design services, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name tooling design services. 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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Tooling design services 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 254 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 tooling design services, 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 “tooling design services”. 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 tooling design services), 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 tooling design services, 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, 346 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
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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 tooling design services, 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 tooling design services are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 254 tooling design services 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?
Petford Group LTD, headquartered in Dudley, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most tooling design services?
Birmingham leads with 8 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (7) and Walsall (7).
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 346 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 254 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.
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