Other machine tools
UK companies organised by the CorpSignals industry, segment, and subsegment taxonomy.
Company snapshot
What this shows: the size and current activity of this classification, plus recent formations, company age, revenue coverage, and trade participation.
All companies
785
Active companies
613
Formed in latest 12 months
25
Median active-company age
19.2 years
Revenue known
18
Importers
203
Exporters
197
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 785 |
| Active companies | 613 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 25 |
| Importers | 203 |
| Exporters | 197 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 18 known, 595 unknown (2.9%).
Company formations
What this shows: monthly incorporations and dissolutions from 1 January 2024, including companies of every current status.
Latest ten months shown in the chart
| Month | Formed | Dissolved |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-12 | 2 | 5 |
| 2026-01 | 4 | 5 |
| 2026-02 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-03 | 3 | 6 |
| 2026-04 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-06 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-07 | 2 | 4 |
| 2026-08 | 2 | 8 |
| 2026-09 | 1 | 5 |
Window: 2024-01 to 2026-09.
Company status
What this shows: all current Companies House status values. Companies House Active records with dormant accounts are shown as Dormant; the remaining Companies House Active records are shown as Active. Blank and missing values are combined as Unknown.
Top values shown in the chart
| Status | Companies |
|---|---|
| Active | 556 |
| Dissolved | 151 |
| Dormant | 57 |
| Liquidation | 19 |
| In Administration | 2 |
Active companies by UK region
What this shows: active companies with a known ITL2 region. The UK map falls back to a bar chart if map data cannot be loaded.
Top values shown in the chart
| ITL2 region | Companies |
|---|---|
| West Midlands | 64 |
| Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire | 47 |
| West Yorkshire | 41 |
| Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire | 28 |
| Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire | 28 |
| Shropshire and Staffordshire | 27 |
| Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 25 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 22 |
| Essex | 19 |
| South East Wales | 19 |
Geography coverage: 595 known, 18 unknown (97.1%).
Revenue ranges
What this shows: active companies grouped into the platform’s ordered estimated-revenue bands.
Top values shown in the chart
| Revenue range | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0-1m | 358 |
| 1m-15m | 135 |
| 15m-54m | 5 |
| 54m+ | 16 |
Revenue-range coverage: 514 known, 99 unknown (83.8%).
Company size and employees
What this shows: active companies by published size category and by reported employee count.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company size | Companies |
|---|---|
| Micro | 146 |
| Small | 329 |
| Medium | 3 |
| Large | 30 |
| Holding | 4 |
| Dormant | 57 |
Company-size coverage: 569 known, 44 unknown (92.8%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 123 |
| 1–9 | 267 |
| 10–49 | 87 |
| 50–249 | 9 |
Employee coverage: 486 known, 127 unknown (79.3%).
Active-company age
What this shows: how long currently active companies have been incorporated.
Top values shown in the chart
| Age band | Companies |
|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 24 |
| 1–3 years | 47 |
| 3–5 years | 37 |
| 5–10 years | 73 |
| 10–20 years | 138 |
| 20+ years | 294 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 613 known, 0 unknown (100.0%).
Classification breakdown
What this shows: active companies across the next taxonomy level; direct assignments are labelled separately. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| 28490 | 613 |
International trade
What this shows: active-company participation in imports and exports, followed by the ten HS2 categories involving the most distinct companies.
Top values shown in the chart
| Trade participation | Companies |
|---|---|
| Importer only | 56 |
| Exporter only | 50 |
| Both | 147 |
| Neither | 360 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 175 | £44,819,749,960 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 126 | £37,296,572,738 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 105 | £8,608,834,810 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 82 — Basic metal tools and utensils | 93 | £1,117,791,677 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 66 | £3,781,534,835 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 54 | £6,487,441,467 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 42 | £508,573,089 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 38 | £2,238,143,404 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 76 — Aluminum and aluminum products | 37 | £843,261,425 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 32 | £3,558,610,955 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 171 | £23,930,433,440 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 122 | £13,564,302,809 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 98 | £6,807,035,464 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 82 — Basic metal tools and utensils | 88 | £627,799,818 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 69 | £3,405,463,504 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 56 | £2,316,686,831 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 28 | £206,728,181 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 28 | £378,779,759 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 27 | £1,520,172,818 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 88 — Aircraft, spacecraft, and their parts | 22 | £18,217,923,329 | 2016-04-01 – 2026-03-01 |
Business and digital traits
What this shows: active companies identified with selected ownership, business-model, and online-presence traits.
Values shown in the chart with data coverage
| Trait | Companies | Known | Unknown | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family business | 98 | 450 | 163 | 73.4% |
| Holding company | 0 | 450 | 163 | 73.4% |
| Solo founder | 156 | 450 | 163 | 73.4% |
| Ecommerce | 17 | 169 | 444 | 27.6% |
| Website | 221 | 226 | 387 | 36.9% |
| 177 | 226 | 387 | 36.9% |
Leading active companies
What this shows: the ten active companies with the highest non-missing revenue, with company number used as the deterministic tie-breaker.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company | Revenue |
|---|---|
| Novanta Technologies Uk Limited | £62,530,000 |
| Heller Machine Tools Limited | £60,843,504 |
| Atlas Copco Ias Uk Limited | £43,115,000 |
| Industrial Tooling Corporation Limited | £11,933,859 |
| Esprit Automation Limited | £11,708,438 |
| Holroyd Precision Ltd | £7,790,103 |
| Romi Machines Uk Limited | £5,008,465 |
| T. & G. Engineering Co. Limited | £4,395,142 |
| Archway Engineering (u.k.) Limited | £4,232,469 |
| Socamel Uk Limited | £1,079,803 |
Revenue coverage: 18 known, 595 unknown (2.9%).
Related classifications
What this shows: sibling classifications ranked by distinct active companies, excluding the current node. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Other special purpose machinery n.e.c. | 3,389 |
| Other n.e.c. | 1,274 |
| Lifting equipment | 916 |
| Industrial cooling and ventilation | 592 |
| Pumps | 470 |
| Agricultural and forestry machinery (not tractors) | 451 |
| Engines & turbines | 445 |
| Machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing | 427 |
| Taps & valves | 375 |
| Bearings, gears, drivers | 354 |
| Fluid power equipment | 270 |
| Plastics and rubber machinery | 198 |
| Metal forming machinery | 184 |
| Ovens, furnaces, burners | 165 |
| Machinery for textile, apparel and leather production | 162 |
| Mining equipment | 130 |
| Compressors | 106 |
| Machinery for paper and paperboard production | 88 |
| Power tools | 88 |
| Concrete crushing and roadwork equipment | 86 |
| Other | 236 |
SIC classification
SIC 28490 — Manufacture of other machine tools
Includes
manufacture of machine tools for working wood, bone, stone, hard rubber, hard plastics, cold glass etc., including those using a laser beam, ultrasonic waves, plasma arc, magnetic pulse etc., manufacture of work holders for machine tools, manufacture of dividing heads and other special attachments for machine tools, manufacture of stationary machines for nailing, stapling, glueing or otherwise assembling wood, cork, bone, hard rubber or plastics etc., manufacture of stationary rotary or rotary percussion drills, filing machines, riveters, sheet metal cutters etc., manufacture of presses for the manufacture of particle board and the like, manufacture of electroplating machinery, manufacture of parts and accessories for the machine tools listed
Excludes
manufacture of interchangeable tools for machine tools (drills, punches, dies, taps, milling cutters, turning tools, saw blades, cutting knives etc.), see ##25.73, manufacture of electric hand held soldering irons and soldering guns, see ##27.90, manufacture of power-driven hand tools, see ##28.24, manufacture of machinery used in metal mills or foundries, see ##28.91, manufacture of machinery for mining and quarrying, see ##28.92