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Company description
U-POL LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 23 February 1949; registered for 77 years; registered office reported in WELLINGBOROUGH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 20301 · Manufacture of paints, varnishes and similar coatings, mastics and sealants, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 December 2025, it reported profit after tax £5,745,000, net assets £70,155,000, average employees 3. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 30 trade marks, 2 other public-register records. 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
- U-POL LIMITED
- Company number
- 00464919
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 16 total · 2 outstanding · 14 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
20 May 2026Next statement due
3 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Profit before tax
- £7,887,000
- Profit after tax
- £5,745,000
- Fixed assets
- £12,539,000
- Net assets
- £70,155,000
- Current assets
- £79,208,000
- Current liabilities
- £19,744,000
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £72,003,000
- Cash at bank
- £7,524,000
- Equity
- £70,155,000
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
Earlier imported periods (1)
- Accounts£89,211,000 net assets
04 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 16.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 35.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 36.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 64.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 20.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 31.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 30.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 64.0%
Earlier reporting years (4)
- 250 to 49914.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49910.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49922.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49917.9% 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.
05 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 30 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- 90 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £1,235,665
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £10,736,847
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £25,242,013
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £22,323,849
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 49.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 1.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
U-POL LTD STANDARD PAYMENT TERMS STATE:-
Payment shall be made by the Buyer within 60 days from the end of the term within which the relevant Supplier's invoice was received
Terms may however may be concluded by the supplier and these terms are generally from 30 to 90 days
Payments are made electronically - Other payment-term information
IF ALL CREDITORS WERE PAID ON DUE DATE OF INVOICE THE AVERAGE TIME TAKEN TO PAY INVOICES DROPS FROM 56 TO 53
- Dispute resolution process
Disputes are resolved by discussion and agreement with the supplier and are typically managed by the Finance team and Procurement team
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 57.0 average days to pay80.0% outside terms
- 57.0 average days to pay82.0% outside terms
- 56.0 average days to pay83.0% outside terms
- 55.0 average days to pay80.0% outside terms
- 55.0 average days to pay80.0% outside terms
- 55.0 average days to pay79.0% outside terms
- 54.0 average days to pay82.0% outside terms
- 55.0 average days to pay83.0% outside terms
- 56.0 average days to pay86.0% outside terms
- 59.0 average days to pay86.0% outside terms
- 59.0 average days to pay87.0% 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.
06 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
U-POL LTD
LEI 635400FB1TSW3F9YAT84 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- Not supplied
- Initial LEI registration
- 25 February 2014
- LEI last updated
- 21 November 2022
- Next renewal
- 25 February 2021
- Managing LOU
- 635400DZBUIMTBCXGA12
- Legal address
- U-Pol Tech Centre Denington Road, Denington Industrial Estate, Wellingborough, Not Applicable, GB-NTT, NN8 2QH, GB
- Headquarters address
- U-Pol Tech Centre Denington Road, Denington Industrial Estate, Wellingborough, Not Applicable, GB-NTT, NN8 2QH, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
UK Additional public registers
Schools, childcare, care and HSE records
U-Pol Limited
16 May 2025 · Improvement Notice
U-Pol Limited
16 May 2025 · Improvement Notice
Identity methods differ by source. DfE links use source-supplied company numbers. Ofsted and Scottish care links are unique exact name-and-postcode candidates. HSE links require one unique exact Companies House organisation name. Verify candidate associations independently.
07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
U-Pol Limited
Registration Z7877501
- Registered from
- 5 March 2003
- Current end date
- 4 March 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
U-POL EASYFILL
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1,19
- Filed / designated
- 21 July 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 July 2027
U-POL FASTFILL
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1,19
- Filed / designated
- 21 July 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 July 2027
U-POL TOUGHFILL
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1,19
- Filed / designated
- 21 July 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 July 2027
RAPTOR
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 2
- Filed / designated
- 30 October 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 October 2025
FLYWEIGHT GOLD
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1
- Filed / designated
- 4 August 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 August 2025
GRIPPED
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1
- Filed / designated
- 4 August 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 August 2025
FIBRAL
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1
- Filed / designated
- 4 August 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 August 2025
DOLPHIN
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1
- Filed / designated
- 4 August 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 August 2025
ACID#8
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 2
- Filed / designated
- 4 August 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 August 2025
CLEAR#1
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 2
- Filed / designated
- 4 August 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 August 2025
GRIP#4
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1
- Filed / designated
- 4 August 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 August 2025
U-POL ExperT
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 2
- Filed / designated
- 20 January 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 20 January 2022
STRONGHOLD
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1
- Filed / designated
- 7 February 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 February 2022
PLAST'X'
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1,2,3
- Filed / designated
- 28 July 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 28 July 2019
ZINC 182
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 2
- Filed / designated
- 10 April 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 April 2025
GALVX
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1
- Filed / designated
- 10 April 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 April 2025
BARCOAT
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 2
- Filed / designated
- 10 April 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 April 2025
REFACE
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1
- Filed / designated
- 10 April 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 April 2025
THE BIG SMOOTH EASY ONE
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1
- Filed / designated
- 31 March 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 March 2025
SMOOTH 7
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1
- Filed / designated
- 31 March 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 March 2025
TOP STOP
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1
- Filed / designated
- 31 March 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 March 2025
FASTGLAS
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1,21
- Filed / designated
- 31 March 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 March 2025
QUICK SAND
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1
- Filed / designated
- 13 July 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 July 2021
FIBRAL
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 21
- Filed / designated
- 4 October 1989
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 October 2026
U-POL TOP STOP
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 1
- Filed / designated
- 13 July 1988
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 July 2025
U-POL TOP STOP
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 19
- Filed / designated
- 13 July 1988
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 July 2025
U-POL TIGER SEAL
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 17
- Filed / designated
- 23 October 1987
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 October 2018
U-POL
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 2
- Filed / designated
- 7 October 1986
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 October 2027
U-POL
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 8
- Filed / designated
- 7 October 1986
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 October 2027
U-POL
Owner U-Pol Limited · classes 19
- Filed / designated
- 7 October 1986
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 October 2027
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.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Axalta Coating Systems Uk Holding Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights (as a firm)
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Has significant influence or control (as a firm)
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited
- Place registered
- United Kingtom
- Registration number
- 08330148
- Notified
- 15 May 2024
U-Pol Products Ltd
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- English Law
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- United Kingdom
- Registration number
- 04512086
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 15 May 2024
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.
09 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.
10 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.
11 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.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
12 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.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
13 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.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Manufacture of other chemical products n.e.c.
15 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.
16 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Detected change
Accounts due date: 2026-09-30 → 2027-09-30
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
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.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Organisation enforcement records linked by one unique exact company name.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact 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.
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