Commercial Services

NPL's commercial services are built on 100 years of leadership in accuracy, innovation and scientific research.

Experienced consultants and project managers draw upon a unique combination of industry know-how and world leading scientific discovery to deliver real-world business solutions and enable innovation and secure competitive advantage.

Make NPL your science partner.

The areas below outline a range of our specific services and how we have helped some sectors.

Measurement Services

The NPL Measurement Services brochure has been updated recently to include a number of new services that are creating considerable interest in the marketplace.
 

Products & Services

  • NPL provides training in all areas of metrology as well as training consultancy and training needs analysis for your organisation.
  • If you have a specific problem or opportunity we can work with you to tailor an appropriate measurement solution. This might include consultancy, an on-site measurement audit, training, or a bespoke measurement service.
  • NPL excels in stimulating innovation by sharing its own knowledge with business. The heart of this is a rigorous formulation and impact assessment process for both government and industry funded projects and programmes.
  • NPL can support your business by undertaking bespoke measurement research working in collaboration with your team; ensuring the sharing of know how. NPL's experts are drawn from industry to work with industry.
  • NPL has been providing R&D project management services for Government, research organisations and industry for many years, and use this expertise to manage contract research or science-based collaborations on behalf of stakeholders.
  • NPL's intellectual property often manifests itself in technology products or processes that are for sale or available to licence. Many companies benefit from NPL know how inside their own products, processes and services.
 

Sectors

  • NPL helps the UK manufacturing industry to remain competitive with innovation from measurement techniques and skills that allow companies to improve processes, quality, and reduce costs and scrap.
  • NPL helps to make secure communications more robust by combining our capabilities in accurate timing, location and quantum cryptography.
  • NPL supports the Digital Economy by helping to calibrate, and validate data.
  • NPL works with companies from across the fossil fuel, nuclear, and renewable energy industries.
  • NPL provides high quality, cost effective pollution monitoring and analysis services.
  • NPL supports the Healthcare sector's need for potentially life-saving measurement accuracy across a huge range of applications.
  • NPL helps businesses find new ways to conserve energy, save water, recycle materials, reduce waste, limit pollution, monitor and trade carbon, and maximise food production.