Company Profile

Ricardo plc is a world-class environmental, engineering and strategic consulting company and specialist niche manufacturer of high-performance products. With over 100 years of engineering excellence, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading edge and innovative cross sector sustainable products and solutions, helping our global customers increase efficiencies, achieve growth and create a cleaner and safer future. Our mission is clear – to create a world fit for the future.

Ricardo develops clean, efficient and integrated propulsion systems for future aircraft in fixed wing, rotary, eVTOL and UAV platforms for commercial and defence applications. Ricardo’s highly experienced manufacturing and technical teams can further provide a seamless low to medium volume manufacturing solution delivered from the company’s state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities.

 Ricardo leverages its expertise in supporting the decarbonisation of global transport and energy sectors to act as trusted engineering services provider to aerospace customers for electrification,  hydrogen fuel cell technology and defossilised fuels.

 For over 25 years within the Defence sector, Ricardo has been the trusted engineering services provider for military users across land, air and sea environments, designing, developing and delivering innovative projects to the UK Ministry of Defence from its List X technical centres in the UK.