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Company description
SOFIDEL UK LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 19 April 1988; registered for 38 years; registered office reported in NEATH, WALES. Its primary declared activity is 17120 · Manufacture of paper and paperboard.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records, 15 trade marks, 1 procurement record, 3 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
- SOFIDEL UK LIMITED
- Company number
- 02245657
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 23 total · 3 outstanding · 20 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
21 May 2026Next statement due
4 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 75.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- -104.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 89.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 96.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 10.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 11.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 7.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 12.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 9997.5% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9996.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9995.8% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-0.5% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-18.8% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9994.5% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-28.5% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-28.5% 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 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 13 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 2 days
- Longest standard term
- 120 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
- £128,710,713
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £20,775,157
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £13,187,110
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £91,858,613
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 63.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 120 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
Longer payment terms are typically agreed only with suppliers of high value items such as capital equipment purchases.
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Payment terms are agreed with each supplier individually and may vary depending on the nature of the goods or services provided.
Payment runs for each currency are made at the beginning and middle of each month. For the majority of cases invoices are paid on the first available payment run after their due date. - Other payment-term information
The statistics show a high proportion of invoices not paid within the agreed terms. This is a function of our bi-monthly payment runs and the majority of invoices are paid within a few days of their due date.
- Dispute resolution process
Suppliers are asked to contact the Accounts Payable team with any queries or disputes. Any queries that cannot be resolved by the team are forwarded to Purchase Office for further investigation and resolution. An escalation process exists where any unresolved queries are escalated to department managers/senior management.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 49.0 average days to pay40.0% outside terms
- 51.0 average days to pay52.0% outside terms
- 53.0 average days to pay47.0% outside terms
- 52.0 average days to pay54.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay51.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay57.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay61.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay57.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay53.0% outside terms
- 34.0 average days to pay67.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay62.0% 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 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
SOFIDEL UK LIMITED
LEI 213800XMLC619Y66LV33 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 19 April 1988
- Initial LEI registration
- 3 March 2014
- LEI last updated
- 3 November 2025
- Next renewal
- 23 December 2026
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Other legal names
- LPC GROUP LIMITED; LPC GROUP PLC
- Legal address
- BRUNEL WAY BAGLAN ENERGY PARK, BRITON FERRY WALES, NEATH, GB-NTL, SA11 2FP, GB
- Headquarters address
- BRUNEL WAY BAGLAN ENERGY PARK, BRITON FERRY, NEATH, GB-NTL, SA11 2FP, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 213800XMLC619Y66LV33 to LEI 8156004E70AB6119D319
- Initial registration
- 3 March 2014
- Last updated
- 3 November 2025
- Next renewal
- 23 December 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2024-12-31T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2020-02-17T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: OTHER_ACCOUNTING_STANDARD
- Validation reference
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02245657/filing-history/MzQ2ODYxNjg3NGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 213800XMLC619Y66LV33 to LEI 8156004E70AB6119D319
- Initial registration
- 3 March 2014
- Last updated
- 3 November 2025
- Next renewal
- 23 December 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2024-12-31T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2020-02-17T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: OTHER_ACCOUNTING_STANDARD
- Validation reference
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02245657/filing-history/MzQ2ODYxNjg3NGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
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.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- SOFIDEL UK LIMITED
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 23 June 2026
- Sectors
- Forestry, timber products, paper and containers and packaging
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 25 June 2026
Policies described
Freedom of workers to terminate employment Freedom of movement Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees Prohibits compulsory overtime Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents
Training described
Human resources
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Trade unions or worker representative groups Professional auditors Workers within your organisation
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff Third party audit arranged by your organisation Announced audit
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Demonstrated progress
The statement makes reference to both past and future initiatives and sets out the KPIs that are used.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Risks of agency workers being subject to restricted practices by the employment agencies they use.
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers
- Group: Women Migrants Refugees
- Location: United Kingdom
- Mitigation: We have introduced worker interviews with all agency workers to identify any potential problems from the agency they used. All labour providers are subject to unannounced audits by Sofidel HR staff to ensure that all legal requirements are being met.
- Risk: Risks of modern slavery issues within the our supply chain.
- Group: Women Migrants Refugees Children
- Location: Belgium Germany Spain France United Kingdom Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Poland Romania Sweden
- Mitigation: All suppliers are subject to automated screening against international sanctions lists, such as EU and UK regimes, as part of a centralized and systematic process applied across the Group. This screening is performed through an integrated data provider within the Ariba ecosystem, which enables continuous monitoring of sanctions, adverse media and other compliance risks.
- Risk: Inadvertent employment of child labour in our plants.
- Area: Within your own operations
- Group: Children
- Mitigation: We continue to be diligent in checking the identity documents of all employees and agency workers. Sofidel policy is not to employ permanent staff who are under the age of 18. Young people aged 16 & 17 can only be employed on an Apprenticeship basis through a recognised programme with a local college/training provider. In such cases Sofidel adopts the Safeguarding policies of the provider.
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
UK Additional public registers
Schools, childcare, care and HSE records
Sofidel UK Limited
29 October 2024 · Improvement Notice
Sofidel UK Limited
29 October 2024 · Improvement Notice
Sofidel UK Limited
5 November 2019 · Manufacturing
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 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Paper Hygiene Products 2023
NHS Supply Chain · ocds-b5fd17-17877968-8b29-4885-86ad-73b2a42ef605
- Supplier named in award
- Sofidel Uk Ltd
- Award value
- £27,000,000
- Contract period
- 8 April 2024 – 7 April 2026
- Published
- 1 December 2023
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 33772000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-17877968-8b29-4885-86ad-73b2a42ef605-2023-12-01T10:58:56Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
BREEZE
Owner Sofidel UK Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 9 July 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 July 2023
Ultimate KITCHEN TOWEL absorbent and strong for no nonsense kitchen tasks
Owner Sofidel UK Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 24 January 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 January 2023
TRIPELLE
Owner Sofidel UK Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 1 March 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 March 2021
TALENT
Owner Sofidel UK Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 1 August 2003
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 August 2023
COLOURSOFT
Owner Sofidel UK Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 5 November 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 November 2022
EMBRACE
Owner Sofidel UK Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 5 November 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 November 2022
REALM
Owner Sofidel UK Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 2 March 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 2 March 2022
KIND
Owner Sofidel UK Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 6 September 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 6 September 2020
MAJESTIC
Owner Sofidel UK Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 18 May 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 May 2020
CASHMERE
Owner Sofidel UK Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 15 September 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 September 2019
"PASHMINA"
Owner Sofidel UK Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 11 June 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 June 2019
family care luxury bathroom tissue
Owner Sofidel UK Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 20 August 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 20 August 2018
BREEZE
Owner Sofidel UK Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 23 January 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 January 2027
FLAIR
Owner Sofidel UK Limited · classes 16,35
- Filed / designated
- 23 October 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
ULTIMATE
Owner Sofidel UK Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 12 October 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
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
Mr Nicolò StefaniSee 2 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control (as a firm)
- Nationality
- Italian
- Country of residence
- Italy
- Notified
- 27 March 2025
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-03-03T00:00:00Z
Mr Luigi LazzareschiSee 3 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- Italian
- Country of residence
- Italy
- Notified
- 21 May 2016
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-05-26T00:00:00Z
Mr Edilio StefaniSee 2 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- Italian
- Country of residence
- Italy
- Notified
- 29 March 2024
- Ceased
- 30 January 2025
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
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
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: LPC GROUP LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 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.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Organisation enforcement records linked by one unique exact company name.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
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.