Our History
In April 2007 Sue and Mike Penman MBE established Penman Consulting. In 2024 we have grown to over 50 staff working across UK, Belgium, and remotely, for clients around the world.
2024
- Team grows to 57.
2023
- Penman Consulting Limited wins The King’s Award for Enterprise.
2022
- Team grows to 55.
2021
- Team exceeds 50 staff.
- >2500 Downstream User Import Notifications (DUINs) submitted to the HSE, for UK REACH, by the 27th October 2021.
2020
- Penman Consulting and Active Steward™ awarded ISO27001 for our ISMS (information security management system).
2019
- ISO 9001 re-certification passed.
- Dossier updating program completed; 91 dossiers updated.
2018
- REACH Deadline ≥ 1 tonne per annum.
- Team grows to 35.
- Successful ISO 9001 Audit, Brussels.
- UK office moves to Aspect House, Oxfordshire.
- 10th anniversary of Penman Consulting Ltd.
2017
- Introduction of section heads into business, more formal management and reporting lines.
- New office in Brussels – Avenue Des Arts.
- Reporting H4R testing to ECHA.
2016
- Increase in number of projects and diversification of clients.
- Reporting HOPA testing to ECHA.
- New Grove Office for Active Steward™ Team.
- ISO 9001 certification, Penman Consulting Ltd.
2015
- LOA Data call-in for use and analytical data (via Active Steward™).
2014
- Oxfordshire, UK, office opens.
- Increasing Study Requests from ECHA – ongoing testing programes and updates.
2013
- REACH Deadline ≥ 100 tonnes per annum.
2012
- Brussels office moves to Rue Royale, Brussels.
- Development of testing strategies for HOPA and H4R.
2011
- Managing the H4R consortium.
- Beginning of Active Steward™.
2010
- REACH Deadline ≥ 1000 tonnes per annum.
- Team grown to 8 staff.
- Successfully registered 400 substances for the first REACH deadline.
2009
- Managing the Higher Olefins and Poly Alpha Olefins (HOPA) REACH Consortium.
2008
- Penman Consulting Ltd incorporated.
- Successful tender to manage new Lower Olefins and Aromatics (LOA) REACH Consortium.
2007
- Penman Consulting bvba opens in Tervuren, Brussels.
Contact us today
Our multidisciplinary team offer support with scientific and regulatory challenges, and we are dedicated to providing top-tier solutions.