BWB Technologies
West Berkshire, United Kingdom
November 2025
Machinery & equipment
Manufacturing
United Kingdom
BWB Technologies is a British designer and manufacturer of high-performance laboratory instrumentation, proudly engineering and assembling every system in the United Kingdom. Known globally for its award-winning flame photometers, BWB has redefined expectations in elemental analysis with instruments that combine exceptional accuracy, intuitive operation, and robust build quality. From its headquarters in Newbury, BWB brings together a dedicated team of engineers, scientists, and industry specialists who share a commitment to innovation, precision, and customer support. The company’s product range now extends beyond flame photometry to include advanced laboratory stirring, mixing, oxygen sensing, and flocculation analysis technologies following the strategic acquisition of Rank Brothers’ scientific division. What sets BWB apart is not only its technology but its culture. As a growing UK micro-SME, BWB places its people, staff, customers, and community, at the centre of its mission. The company invests heavily in sustainability, youth development, and responsible manufacturing, achieving recognition for its environmental and social initiatives while continually raising the bar for industry best practice. With a global distributor network, an expanding R&D portfolio, and a relentles
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 13.1
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 26.0
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 21.2
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 23.4
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Customers 3.4
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.