The firm
MTIS has answered industrial materials questions since 2009. The idea was simple: industry has materials questions constantly — failures, corrosion, selection, verification — and most organisations have no metallurgist to answer them. MTIS exists to be that answer: consultancy-grade materials engineering, delivered by the senior engineers themselves.
Today the work spans failure investigation, corrosion and integrity, materials selection, characterisation and testing coordination, manufacturing and repair support, and training — always led by a director, always evidence-first.
The people
Andrew — Director
Chartered Engineer and professional-institution fellow. Andrew's career spans industrial materials engineering and failure investigation — with particular depth in oil-and-gas component and asset failures — alongside an academic research and teaching career. He leads MTIS investigations from evidence intake to final report.
Nigel — Director
Chartered Engineer and professional-institution fellow, combining industrial practice with deep materials engineering expertise across failure analysis, corrosion and materials performance.
MTIS on LinkedIn: company page · Andrew Spowage · Nigel Brewitt.
Our delivery model
MTIS maintains limited in-house practical capability for inspection, sample preparation, secure storage and selected materials-processing/support tasks, and works with a network of specialist laboratory partners to access the most appropriate test methods for each investigation.
We treat this as a strength, deliberately chosen. Owning a laboratory means every problem tends to be answered with the tests that laboratory can run. Coordinating across specialist partners means each investigation gets the method that best answers its question — while MTIS keeps the parts that matter most in expert hands: defining what to test, why, and what the results mean. The model in detail →
In-house, that practical capability includes inspection and examination equipment, sample preparation, microscopy, secure storage, workshop access and limited materials-processing equipment including 3D-printing, laser and cutting tools for support tasks.
How we work
- Evidence first. Conclusions follow from documented evidence; competing explanations are tested and eliminated, not assumed away.
- Honest uncertainty. We distinguish confirmed mechanisms from most-likely mechanisms, and say plainly what would firm the answer.
- Confidential by practice. Client components and information are received with documented handling, stored securely, and not disclosed.
- Practical output. Every finding connects to actions — material, design, operating or maintenance changes you can implement.
- Director-led. The engineer you brief is the engineer who investigates and the engineer who signs the report.