INBUREX Consulting

What INBUREX Consulting does

INBUREX Consulting GmbH is a privately held German engineering consultancy founded in 1990 and headquartered in Hamm, Germany, specializing in industrial plant safety. The firm operates through four specialist departments — Explosion Protection, Fire Protection, Process Safety, and Major Accident Prevention — supported by its own research and testing laboratory, the Wilhelm-Jost-Institut in Möhnesee. Services are delivered as expert consulting, expert witness opinions (including designations under §29a and §29b BImSchG), disturbance incident investigations, external safety officer appointments, seminars, and laboratory testing for combustion, explosion, and thermal stability parameters under EN, IEC, and DIN standards. The client base comprises three named constituencies: plant operators (Betreiber), engineering planners (Planer), and regulatory authorities (Behörden).

Revenue is generated through individually quoted professional services fees across these divisions, with no public pricing list and no productized or self-serve offering. Engagement is delivered via direct expert-to-client consulting under an enterprise field-sales motion, with dedicated contact persons per specialist department. The firm operates internationally through wholly-owned entities INBUREX UK Ltd. (Woolston, Warrington) and a Netherlands branch (Breda), and supports its advisory work through active participation in CEN, DIN, ProcessNet, DGUV/BG RCI, and IVSS standardization committees, as well as European research projects that feed directly into client engagements.

The business is led by three managing directors (Dr.-Ing. Klaus Hermann, Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Jörg Meistes, Dr.-Ing. Bernd Broeckmann) and an interdisciplinary team of certified expert witnesses, Störfallbeauftragte, and specialists holding advanced degrees across engineering and chemistry. There are no disclosed funding rounds, no institutional investors, no parent company, and no M&A activity in the source material. INBUREX competes on regulatory standing, in-house laboratory capability, and depth of certified talent rather than on technology platform scale.

Name

INBUREX Consulting

Legal name

INBUREX Consulting GmbH

Website

https://inburex.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

INBUREX Consulting GmbH is a German industrial safety consultancy (founded 1990, headquartered in Hamm) that delivers expert witness opinions, safety consulting, and laboratory testing in explosion protection, fire protection, process safety, and major accident prevention to plant operators, planners, and regulators across Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Safety Consulting

NAICS

Engineering Services (541330), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169), Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711), Services-Testing Laboratories (8734), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAHAJAE

Process Safety & Major Hazard Risk Management (PSM)

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Consulting

SECONDARYBPAHAIAL

Testing, Inspection, Certification & Commissioning (TICx) Technical Services

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Engineering & Technical Consulting

SECONDARYBPAHACAJ

Risk, Compliance & Internal Controls Consulting

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Management Consulting

SECONDARYBPABAAAE

Security, Safety & Fire/Life Safety Management

Business & Public Services/Facilities Management & Building Services/Integrated Facilities Management (IFM)

Keywords

• Industrial safety consulting
• Explosion protection services
• Fire protection consulting
• Process safety advisory
• Major accident prevention

Headquarters

HQ city

Hamm

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Industrial Safety Consulting and Advisory Services: INBUREX generates revenue through professional consulting fees charged for advisory services across its four specialist departments (Explosion Protection, Fire Protection, Process Safety, Major Accident Prevention) and its testing laboratory. Engagements include expert opinions, safety studies, risk assessments, permit support, and on-call advisory retainer arrangements. Services are delivered to plant operators, planners, and authorities. The company also offers seminars (Inhouse-Veranstaltungen) as a separate service line.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

INBUREX Consulting provides industrial plant safety consulting across four specialist departments: Explosion Protection, Fire Protection, Process Safety, and Major Accident Prevention. Services include expert opinions, risk assessments, protection concept design, regulatory compliance support under German safety law (BImSchG, StörfallV, ATEX), and external safety officer appointments. The firm also operates the Wilhelm-Jost-Institut research and testing laboratory in Möhnesee, generating proprietary explosion, combustion, and thermal stability data for client-specific substances and processes.

Product overview

INBUREX Consulting is an independent consulting company specializing in industrial plant safety. The company operates four core service divisions (Explosion Protection, Fire Protection, Process Safety, and Major Accident Prevention) supported by an in-house Research & Testing Laboratory (Wilhelm-Jost-Institut). The portfolio includes expert opinions and certifications (including §29a and §29b BImSchG expert services), external safety officer appointments, seminars and training, and specialized investigation services for fire and explosion causes. The service model is structured as a consulting firm rather than a software platform, offering its expertise directly to plant operators, planners, and authorities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Interdisciplinary expert teams cover all aspects of plant safety, occupational health, and environmental protection in a single engagement
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SRH Hochschule HeidelbergminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerINBUREX collaborated with SRH Hochschule Heidelberg to produce a short film about the 'Prüfstand Flammensperre' (flame barrier test bench) research project. A student from the Crossmedia Design program produced the film as a project. This is a minor educational/research collaboration focused on disseminating safety technology knowledge to a broader audience.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Gexcon: Norwegian specialist in explosion safety consulting, computational fluid dynamics (FLACS), and laboratory testing for explosion characteristics. Highly comparable to INBUREX as a niche process-safety and explosion-consulting firm with proprietary testing capability and similar international client base.
• Chilworth Technology (DEKRA Process Safety): Process safety and dust/gas explosion consulting firm now part of DEKRA. Highly comparable niche consultancy with testing laboratories, process safety management, and ATEX-related services parallel to INBUREX's specialist divisions.
• Fauske & Associates: US-based process safety and thermal hazards consultancy with in-house testing for reactive chemicals (VSP, APTAC). Comparable niche focus on reactive chemicals and process safety testing that overlaps with INBUREX's Wilhelm-Jost-Institut offerings.
• Hazard Evaluation Laboratories: UK-based process safety and thermal hazards testing laboratory. Comparable niche consultancy focused on reactive chemical testing and process safety assessments that directly overlaps INBUREX's lab-based service offerings and serves a similar European client base.
• ioMosaic: US-based process safety, reactive chemistry, and risk consulting firm with software and laboratory services. Comparable specialization in process safety management, HAZOP, and reactive-hazard testing similar to INBUREX's offerings.

Broad incumbents

• DEKRA: International TIC firm with industrial safety, explosion protection, and process safety consulting services. Operates broadly across industries and geographies, offering overlap with INBUREX's core safety consulting within a much larger portfolio that now includes Chilworth.
• T\u00dcV S\u00dcD: Global testing, inspection, certification, and training organization with extensive industrial safety and explosion protection services. Directly overlaps with INBUREX's \u00a729a/\u00a729b BImSchG expert-opinion work but operates as a broad incumbent across many industries and geographies.
• T\u00dcV Rheinland: Global TIC and advisory firm with strong industrial safety, plant safety, and explosion protection capabilities. Substantially larger than INBUREX but directly competes for the same expert-opinion and compliance advisory engagements.
• Bureau Veritas: Global TIC firm with industrial asset integrity and process safety services. Competes with INBUREX for plant-safety compliance and explosion-protection engagements, especially with multinational industrial clients under SEVESO/ATEX frameworks.

Others

• Fraunhofer ITEM: Applied research institute with safety testing capabilities for chemicals and aerosols. Adjacent ecosystem participant rather than a direct competitor; operates comparable scientific testing infrastructure but under a public research mandate rather than commercial consulting model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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