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Company description
FORMICA LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 23 March 1915; registered for 111 years; registered office reported in TYNE & WEAR. Its primary declared activity is 16210 · Manufacture of veneer sheets and wood-based panels.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 4 trade marks. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- FORMICA LIMITED
- Company number
- 00139731
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 19 total · 0 outstanding · 19 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2025Next accounts due
30 September 2027Last statement made up to
3 December 2025Next statement due
17 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 1.7%
- Mean bonus gap
- -43.7%
- Women receiving bonus
- 78.3%
- Men receiving bonus
- 84.5%
- Women in top quartile
- 27.1%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 16.9%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 7.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 12.9%
Earlier reporting years (6)
- 250 to 499-16.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-13.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49940.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-8.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-17.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-9.3% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 July 2019 – 31 December 2019
- Filed
- 30 October 2020
- Shortest standard term
- Not supplied
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- Not supplied
- Supply-chain finance
- Not supplied
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- No
- Payments made
- No
- Supplier-list charging policy
- Not supplied
- Supplier-list charges made
- Not supplied
Earlier payment reports (3 shown)
- 39.0 average days to pay32.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay64.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Environmental regulation
Environment Agency records
FORMICA LIMITED
EPR/SP3321SL · NE29 8RE
- Permit or record holder
- FORMICA LIMITED
- Record date
- 26 June 2024
- Local authority
- North Tyneside
- Regulated site or public record address
- Formica Ltd, Coast Road, North Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE29 8RE
- Activity
- Medium Combustion Plant and Specified Generator
- Grid reference
- NZ3309168845
- Easting
- 433091.000
- Northing
- 568845.000
- All populated source fields
- Permission Number: EPR/SP3321SL; Name: FORMICA LIMITED; Activity Type Description: Medium Combustion Plant and Specified Generator; Site Address: Formica Ltd, Coast Road, North Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE29 8RE; Site Postcode: NE29 8RE; Site Grid Reference: NZ3309168845; Easting: 433091; Northing: 568845; Local Authority: North Tyneside; Permission Date: 2024-06-26
FORMICA LIMITED
4167 · NE29 8RE
- Permit or record holder
- FORMICA LIMITED
- Record date
- 16 April 2007
- Local authority
- Not supplied
- Regulated site or public record address
- COAST ROAD, NORTH SHIELDS, TYNE & WEAR, NE29 8RE
- Activity
- IPPC
- Action
- Enforcement Notice
- Relevant legislation
- POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL REGULATIONS 2000
- All populated source fields
- Action Number: 4167; Offender: FORMICA LIMITED; Address: COAST ROAD, NORTH SHIELDS, TYNE & WEAR, NE29 8RE; Action Date: 2007-04-16; Relevant Legislation: POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL REGULATIONS 2000; Action Type: Enforcement Notice; Agency Function: IPPC
FORMICA LIMITED
932 · NE29 8RE
- Permit or record holder
- FORMICA LIMITED
- Record date
- 24 May 2001
- Local authority
- Not supplied
- Regulated site or public record address
- COAST ROAD, NORTH SHIELDS, TYNE & WEAR, NE29 8RE
- Activity
- Process Industry Regulation
- Action
- Enforcement Notice
- Relevant legislation
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1990
- All populated source fields
- Action Number: 932; Offender: FORMICA LIMITED; Address: COAST ROAD, NORTH SHIELDS, TYNE & WEAR, NE29 8RE; Action Date: 2001-05-24; Relevant Legislation: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1990; Action Type: Enforcement Notice; Agency Function: Process Industry Regulation
These are candidate company associations. The public-register downloads do not supply Companies House numbers. BritDB requires one unique exact holder-name and postcode match; the regulated site may differ from the registered office, so verify the record at source.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
ar PLUS
Owner Formica Limited · classes 20
- Filed / designated
- 22 May 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 May 2010
ECLIPSE
Owner Formica Limited · classes 20
- Filed / designated
- 4 September 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 September 2008
CHROMACOLOR
Owner Formica Limited · classes 20
- Filed / designated
- 14 April 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 April 2008
VISIONPAK
Owner Formica Limited · classes 20
- Filed / designated
- 5 September 1983
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 September 2014
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Formica Holdco (Uk) Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Legal authority
- Uk
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
The company has not yet completed the steps to find its PSCs
- Notified
- 24 October 2016
- Ceased
- 24 October 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
08 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
13 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
14 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Candidate permit and enforcement associations based on a unique exact holder-name and postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.