Welcome to BusinessCloud’s FactoryTech 50 ranking for 2022.
Touchlab, an Edinburgh company which has developed an electronic ‘sensing’ skin for robots, tops the annual ranking of UK companies creating original technology for use in manufacturing, heavy industry, batteries and materials.
Following the creation of a 74-strong shortlist, the final ranking was decided by a combination of selections from an independent judging panel (see below) and a public vote among readers of BusinessCloud which attracted hundreds of votes.
You can click on the company names to see what they do. Businesses wishing to purchase an extended profile, including a logo, website links and content promotion, can email commercial director Gary Williams here if they wish to do so.
The ranking is supported by digital transformation experts Sputnik Digital.
- Grace Gilling, MD, The Manufacturer
- Victoria White, editor, UK Manufacturing Online
- Alain Dilworth, programme manager, Made Smarter North West adoption programme
- Jonathan Symcox, editor, BusinessCloud
- 1. Touchlab Edinburgh
- 2. Aceleron Birmingham
- 3. Paragraf Somersham
- 4. Flexciton Hackney
- 5. FourJaw Sheffield
- 6. Hexigone Baglan
- 7. CNC Robotics Liverpool
- 8. Transmission Dynamics Cramlington
- 9. Intoware Nottingham
- 10. Authentise Kensington and Chelsea
- 11. Tharsus Northumberland
- 12. Tribosonics Sheffield
- 13. Geomiq Tower Hamlets
- 14. KIT-AR Barnet
- 15. SamsonVT Manchester
- 16. Luminous Group Newcastle
- 17. Graphcore Bristol
- 18. Wootzano Sedgefield
- 19. Foundries.io Cambridge
- 20. Metis Labs Hackney
- 21. Brill Power Oxford
- 22. Ai Build Waltham Forest
- 23. Wearable Technologies Enderby
- 24. Automata Camden
- 25. Evince Technology Sedgefield
- 26. Reaction Engines Abingdon
- 27. Breathe Battery Technologies City of London
- 28. Clearmark Solutions Nottingham
- 29. Nightingale HQ Pontypridd
- 30. Senseye Southampton
- 31. Soter Analytics Hammersmith & Fulham
- 32. Ultraleap Bristol
- 33. Cambridge GaN Devices Cambridge
- 34. Konektio Chesterfield
- 35. GSS Cumbernauld
- 36. Hive Composites Loughborough
- 37. CloudNC Tower Hamlets
- 38. CorrosionRADAR Cambridge
- 39. Kelvin Nanotechnology Glasgow
- 40. DriveWorks Thelwall
- 41. UniKLasers Edinburgh
- 42. Flowlens Belfast
- 43. Inductosense Bristol
- 44. M Squared Glasgow
- 45. Cambridge Touch Technologies Cambridge
- 46. KETS Quantum Security Bristol
- 47. Opsydia Begbroke
- 48. Reeco Automation Newtown
- 49. SureChill Cardiff
- 50. Zytronic Blaydon