Our mission is to lead materials information technology—to advance materials engineering and education, and to enable better, greener, safer products.

Granta Design was founded in 1994 as a spin-out company from the University of Cambridge by Professors Mike Ashby and David Cebon. Today, we are the largest company and R&D organization operating in the materials information technology market.

Material intelligence for the enterprise

If you work for an engineering enterprise, we make make material intelligence work for you. Through the market-leading GRANTA MI system, we help your company to manage vital information about the engineering materials (metals, plastics, composites) from which your products are made. And we help you apply that information to make smart materials decisions with specialist materials software tools such as CES Selector. To date, we’ve helped hundreds of engineering enterprises to embrace material intelligence. The results speak for themselves – accessible data, time savings, slashed costs, reduced risk, optimized products, and happy engineers.