Building Europe's entrepreneurial industrial services group

We deliver testing, inspection and integrity services for industrial assets and infrastructure and we build the group around the people who built the companies.
OUR STORY

We didn't start in the boardroom..

“accelerating growth through
international customers, shared expertise and complementary services”

A conversation between entrepreneurs who believed there had to be a better way to build an international industrial inspection, testing and calibration group. Not simply bigger. Better.

Too often, acquisitions are driven by a single objective — maximising financial returns as quickly as possible. That may satisfy investors, but it rarely strengthens the long-term future of the companies involved, and it does not always serve their customers or their employees.

So we set out to build something else: a group where entrepreneurship stays alive, where local companies keep their identity and their strengths, and where collaboration creates more value than centralisation.

THE INTEXIS DIFFERENCE

Three things we will not trade away

Every company that joins Intexis does so for its own reasons.
These three hold for all of them.

Growth

Accelerating growth through international customers, shared expertise and complementary services so a company that has reached the edge of its own market can keep going.

Continuity

Succession is about legacy, culture and employees, not only valuation. Owners looking for the right home for the next generation will find one here.

People

Employees keep feeling at home while gaining careers they could not have had before — more learning, more collaboration, more opportunity across borders.

For customers & partners

One partner across the full asset lifecycle

Customers want a partner who understands their operations, reduces complexity and helps them manage compliance, quality and asset integrity across disciplines. Not dozens of suppliers — one that takes work off their hands.

Inspection

Independent technical expertise, statutory and in-service inspection, risk-based inspection programmes.

Integrity

Non-destructive testing, quality and compliance testing, materials and weld verification.

Testing

Corrosion management, fitness-for-service, asset life extension and pressure equipment integrity.

Calibration

UKAS-accredited calibration across torque, pressure, dimensional, electrical, force, temperature and humidity.

Our journey

From one table to a European group

2025 · ORIGIN

The Stamford table

A group of entrepreneurs in the Manchester region agree there is a better way to build an industrial services group.

2026 · FIRST

CoMech joins

Four decades of UKAS-accredited calibration expertise, serving some of the biggest names in UK transport.

2026 · Second

Ashdale joins

Inspection and engineering capability that broadens what the group can take off a customer's hands.

NEXT · ORIGIN

Across Europe

Expansion into the Benelux and the Nordics, with the same test each time: the right home, not the highest bidder.

NEXT · ORIGIN

Across Europe

Expansion into the Benelux and the Nordics, with the same test each time: the right home, not the highest bidder.

Our companies

Independent names. One group.

Each company keeps its identity, its team and its customer relationships.
What changes is what it can offer.

Each company keeps its identity, its team and its customer relationships. What changes is what it can offer.

“Our success comes down to three things: strong capabilities, the agility to meet changing demands, and actually listening to our customers.”

MATT PALET · MANAGING DIRECTOR, COMECH
Engineering-led inspection and integrity services for industrial assets, built on long-standing customer relationships and a reputation for getting difficult jobs right the first time.
“We joined a group that talked about our people and our customers before it talked about numbers.”
DIRECTIE · ASHDALE ENGINEERING
Founder stories

Why owners chose us over the highest bid

Our company has been part of this industry for more than thirty-five years. My father founded it, and I was proud to build on that. When we started thinking about the future, finding the right home mattered more than finding the highest bidder. We have kept our identity, gained an international network, and created a stronger future for our people.

SECOND-GENERATION OWNER · INSPECTION COMPANY

Our company has been part of this industry for more than thirty-five years. My father founded it, and I was proud to build on that. When we started thinking about the future, finding the right home mattered more than finding the highest bidder. We have kept our identity, gained an international network, and created a stronger future for our people.

FOUNDER · CALIBRATION COMPANY