Each year NPL carries out thousands of calibrations or routine tests and provide reference artefacts and materials for measurement and instrumentation companies, manufacturing industry and others.
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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.
Products & Services
- 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.
- These guides cover calculation of elastic-plastic materials models parameters, modelling creep in toughened epoxy adhesives and design and testing of bonded and bolted joints.
- 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 has been providing R&D project management services for Government, research organisations and industry for many years and can use this expertise to project manage contract research or science-based collaborations on behalf of your stakeholders.
- NPL provides high-accuracy primary reference gas mixtures (PRGMs) for the analysis of a range of refinery gases (including coke oven gas, reformer gas, blast furnace gas, etc.).
- 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'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
- Outline of NPL's capabilities in the Advanced Manufacturing & Design sector.
- New threats need new capabilities to respond to them. NPL has had success responding to these new threats, based upon over 100 years of measurement and materials research and adapting technologies developed from other scientific applications.
- Environmental measurement scientists at NPL provide high quality, cost effective pollution monitoring and analysis services.
- Information about NPL's capabilities and services in the Healthcare sector.
- Central to NPL’s contribution to this enormously challenging sector is its ability to take a leadership role in all aspects of precision - taking performance to the next level.