It’s time to help decide BusinessCloud’s FactoryTech 50 ranking for 2024.
The annual ranking celebrates the UK’s most innovative startups, scaleups and established firms creating original technology for use in manufacturing, heavy industry, batteries and materials.
We have shortlisted 89 firms for potential inclusion. The final FactoryTech 50 ranking will be determined by a combination of reader votes and selections from an expert judging panel.
You can cast your vote until 23:59 on Sunday 31st March. Browse the shortlist below and vote for the company you believe to be the most innovative.
The final FactoryTech 50 ranking – supported by digital transformation experts Sputnik Digital – will be published online on Monday 22nd April alongside our annual FactoryTech Insights report.
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FactoryTech 50 shortlist
| Company | HQ | Region | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Additive Flow | London | Greater London | Additive manufacturing workflow software |
| Ai Build | London | Greater London | Additive manufacturing workflow software |
| AMFG | London | Greater London | Additive manufacturing workflow software |
| Anaphite | Bristol | South West | Process chemistry for lower cost and sustainable battery manufacturing |
| Arm | Cambridge | East of England | Designs chips for smartphones |
| Ascalia | London | Greater London | IoT platform improving sustainability in smart cities and Industry 4.0 |
| Assured Systems | Stone | Midlands | Industrial computing and displays incorporating IoT |
| Autentica Industrial Platforms Ltd | Blackpool | North West | NFT marketplace for 3D-printed automotive aftermarket spare parts |
| Automata | London | Greater London | Desktop robots to automate product testing, dispensing and sorting |
| Breathe Battery Technologies | London | Greater London | Advanced battery management software |
| Brill Power | Oxford | South East | Makes lithium ion batteries more reliable and sustainable |
| Brillopak | Tonbridge | South East | Automated packing and palletising machines and systems |
| CadShare | Belfast | Northern Ireland | System for ordering machinery parts, maintenance, repairs and customer support |
| Cambridge GaN Devices | Cambridge | East of England | Power-efficient GaN (Gallium nitride) solutions for power electronics |
| Cambridge Mechatronics | Cambridge | East of England | Leverages smart materials to design and develop miniature motors |
| ChipFlow | Girton | East of England | Helps product companies design their own microchips |
| Clearmark Solutions | Nottingham | Midlands | Coding and labelling solutions for packaging |
| CloudNC | London | Greater London | Tech for optimising and autonomising factory production |
| CNC Robotics | Liverpool | North West | Robotics for the manufacturing sector |
| Conundrum | Cambridge | East of England | AI process control for mining & processing metals & minerals |
| CorrosionRADAR | Cambridge | East of England | Corrosion detection tech |
| CREAT3D | Wokingham | South East | 3D printers for prototyping & manufacturing |
| Deer Technology | Port Talbot | Wales | LimpetReader product turns existing meters into smart meters |
| DriveWorks Ltd | Thelwall | North West | Design automation and sales configurator software |
| Echion Technologies LTD | Cambridge | East of England | Li-ion battery materials for superfast charging |
| Fitfactory | Daresbury | North West | Software for every stage of smart manufacturing process |
| Flexciton | London | Greater London | Production planning and scheduling powered by AI |
| Flowlens | Belfast | Northern Ireland | Cloud software for small equipment manufacturers |
| Flusso Ltd | Cambridge | East of England | Digital flow sensing solution |
| Forefront RF | Cambridge | East of England | Chips connecting devices across multiple frequency bands |
| Foundries.io | Cambridge | East of England | Secure embedded Linux platforms for IoT and Edge devices |
| FourJaw | Sheffield | Yorks & Humber | Affordable machine monitoring platform |
| Fractory | Manchester | North West | Cloud platform that connects engineering companies with the manufacturing market in real-time |
| Geomiq Ltd | London | Greater London | On-demand manufacturing platform |
| GSS | Cumbernauld | Scotland | CO2 sensors based on solid state tech |
| Haydale | Ammanford | Wales | Develops and commercialises advanced materials including graphene |
| Hexigone | Baglan | Wales | Corrosion inhibitors for smart coatings |
| Hive Composites | Loughborough | Midlands | Design and development of new composite materials |
| Holdson | Skelmanthorpe | Yorks & Humber | Surface post processing for metal 3D printing |
| Inductosense | Bristol | South West | Battery-free sensors detecting cracks, corrosion and defects |
| Intelligent Energy Limited | Loughborough | Midlands | Hydrogen fuel cell manufacturer |
| Intoware | Nottingham | Midlands | Digital instructions and onboarding for industrial workforce |
| IQE PLC | Cardiff | Wales | Advanced wafer products & material solutions to the semiconductor industry |
| Kelvin Nanotechnology | Glasgow | Scotland | Advanced photonics and quantum components |
| KETS Quantum Security | Bristol | South West | Chip-based protection against quantum security threats |
| KIT-AR | London | Greater London | Augmented reality tech to digitise manufacturing shop floor |
| Light Trace Photonics | Bristol | South West | Tools helping companies & researchers deliver photonic innovation |
| Lucideon Group | Stoke | Midlands | Materials tech for use in aerospace and other industries |
| Luminous Group | Newcastle | North East | 3D imaging and mixed reality solutions for industry |
| M Squared | Glasgow | Scotland | Laser designer and manufacturer |
| Machine Discovery | Oxford | South East | Neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations with minimal data and high accuracy |
| Microsol | Bristol | South West | Cutting-edge aerosol science |
| Nightingale HQ | Pontypridd | Wales | Makes manufacturers efficient through AI no-code tools |
| Nuada | Belfast | Northern Ireland | Exploiting super-absorbent metal organic frameworks |
| Nyobolt | Cambridge | East of England | High-power, fast-charging battery technology |
| Olympus Technologies | Huddersfield | Yorks & Humber | Industrial and collaborative robotics, automation and welding technologies |
| Opsydia | Begbroke | South East | Can laser-write data inside transparent materials including diamonds |
| Oxford nanoSystems | Abingdon | South East | Innovative coating technologies for heat transfer |
| P2i | Milton | South East | Nano-coating technology for electronics |
| Paragraf | Somersham | East of England | Commercial-quality graphene electronic devices |
| Partful | Manchester | North West | Helps manufacturers to transform the after sales customer experience |
| PowerPhotonic | Dalgety Bay | Scotland | Precision micro-optics |
| Pragmatic | Milton | East of England | Flexible electronics looking to replace silicon chips |
| Reeco Automation | Newtown | Wales | Collaborative automated robots |
| Replan | Huddersfield | Yorks & Humber | Smart planning solutions to scale production & improve supply chain |
| Salience Labs | Oxford | South East | High-speed chips using photonics to enable AI applications |
| Secondmind | Cambridge | East of England | Optimises powertrain design and development for automobiles |
| Seiki Systems | Brighton | South East | Smart manufacturing execution system |
| Sewtec | Wakefield | Yorks & Humber | Factory automation systems |
| Skylark Lasers | Edinburgh | Scotland | Single frequency lasers for holography, sensing and quantum |
| Soter Analytics | London | Greater London | Wearable AI solutions to prevent musculoskeletal injuries in industrial environments |
| SQCDP.co.uk | Newcastle | North East | App & software platform allowing manufacturers to remove problem paperwork from their factory areas |
| Sunamp | East Lothian | Scotland | Heat battery technology |
| Sure Chill | Cardiff | Wales | Cooling technology which doesn't need constant power |
| Teledyne e2v | Chelmsford | East of England | Imaging solutions for industrial sector |
| Tharsus | Northumberland | North East | Helps companies harness robotic and machine technologies |
| Theta Technologies | Exeter | South West | Testing tech that detects flaws in engineering components |
| ThingTrax | London | Greater London | Connected technology for manufacturing machines and workers |
| Touchlab | Edinburgh | Scotland | Electronic 'sensing' skin for robots |
| Transmission Dynamics | Cramlington | North East | IoT sensors to solve complex industrial challenges |
| Tribosonics | Sheffield | Yorks & Humber | Sensor technology for rotating equipment |
| UBISENSE LIMITED | Cambridge | East of England | Enterprise location intelligence used in industrial sector |
| Ultraleap | Bristol | South West | Virtual touch technology |
| Verlume | Aberdeen | Scotland | Intelligent energy management and storage technologies |
| WAAM3D | Milton Keynes | South East | Additive manufacturing solutions for large-scale industrial metal components |
| Wayland Additive | Huddersfield | Yorks & Humber | Metallurgy for additive manufacturing |
| Wootzano | Sedgefield | North East | Robots with 'sensing skin' for fruit and vegetable packing |
| Zaptic | Manchester | North West | Connected worker platform providing job instruction & collaboration for frontline manufacturing teams |
| Zenobe | London | Greater London | Building a circular economy for batteries |