01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- WATERS LIMITED
- Company number
- 02912366
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
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
6 March 2026Next statement due
20 March 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 16 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
30 days
- Dispute resolution process
If there is an issue when we receive an invoice, our AP team will query the invoice with the third party. Our accounts team will not process the invoice until the query has been resolved. The timescale of the resolution will vary in accordance with the issue and the response time of the third party.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 22.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay16.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 12.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay10.0% 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.
04 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- WATERS LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- MICROMASS UK LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 January 2020 – 31 December 2020
- Approved
- 31 December 2020
- Sectors
- Other
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Not reported as covered
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Not reported as covered
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
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.
05 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Waters Limited
Registration Z5094534
- Registered from
- 30 October 2000
- Current end date
- 29 October 2026
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.
06 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Ultra-Sensitive Triple Quadrupole LC-MS/MS System for Advanced Biomedical Training and Research
ASTON UNIVERSITY · ocds-b5fd17-70c54d9d-917b-4e92-a4a2-b53f8f39fc69
- Award value
- £332,000
- Contract period
- 1 March 2026 – 28 February 2029
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
Trace Equipment Procurement
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-235e96a3-10a2-43a0-9a38-af215d5b5b52
- Award value
- £495,458.96
- Contract period
- 27 January 2026 – 10 April 2026
- Procedure
- Competitive procedure with negotiation (above threshold)
Thermal Measurement Lab Equipment
UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD(THE) · ocds-b5fd17-fd24bf53-f8be-4078-be7d-73724407f1a2
- Award value
- £84,687.60
- Contract period
- 17 June 2025 – 30 September 2025
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
Service contract for mass spectrometry instrument
UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA · ocds-b5fd17-37249830-0b9b-40fa-92c0-355d50d2912b
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 17 January 2025 – 22 January 2025
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Zeta Sizer Supply and Installation
ASTON UNIVERSITY · ocds-b5fd17-d3da6dd3-51a7-4074-854f-3da5f538ccf3
- Award value
- £80,000
- Contract period
- 2 January 2025 – 3 January 2025
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
Cover annual performance maintenance for scientific instruments
UNIVERSITY OF DERBY · ocds-b5fd17-bd6afdbf-3403-443b-929a-3ff0f1aff905
- Award value
- £71,711.78
- Contract period
- 13 December 2024 – 12 December 2025
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Mass Spectrometer Service Contract
ASTON UNIVERSITY · ocds-b5fd17-e62a0e51-3e85-4e29-a07e-18f26c49ed26
- Award value
- £92,000
- Contract period
- 1 November 2024 – 31 October 2026
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
LC-HRAM System
UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD(THE) · ocds-b5fd17-16c03f02-34e3-4162-9dc8-cc29d0f9d249
- Award value
- £179,991
- Contract period
- 1 August 2024 – 1 August 2027
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
Benchtop Robot
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-c6d47936-67ca-4f91-ac1f-10161221e529
- Award value
- £43,035.36
- Contract period
- 21 December 2023 – 20 December 2024
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
Nano DSC Servicing
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-4825248a-48df-4c11-b551-3d022c5694d4
- Award value
- £50,000
- Contract period
- 29 November 2023 – 6 July 2027
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
UPLC-MS-MS system [Liquid Chromatography Mass-Spectrometry-Mass Spectrometry]
UK Centre For Ecology & Hydrology · ocds-b5fd17-1e6d4e2e-defe-4331-bcd1-adb2e8087c70
- Award value
- £413,840.96
- Contract period
- 1 December 2023 – 31 March 2031
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
Thermogravimetric Analyser
Aston University · ocds-b5fd17-ee6c325c-e3fc-4825-9aba-7c26ee1938d3
- Award value
- £40,000
- Contract period
- 1 October 2023 – 31 October 2023
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
Differential Scanning Calorimeter
Aston University · ocds-b5fd17-e2e6e0f2-11b2-4de6-9f33-c74d72d380a0
- Award value
- £40,000
- Contract period
- 1 October 2023 – 31 October 2023
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
Contract for the Supply and Installation of a Simultaneous Thermal Analyser plus accessories to the University of Birmingham
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · ocds-b5fd17-c164898c-e8b0-4ddb-8b92-cd4e5ad7510f
- Award value
- £70,480.36
- Contract period
- 20 September 2023 – 20 November 2023
- Procedure
- Other - Single Contract from 3 Quotes
High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON · ocds-b5fd17-693e6d37-d538-4c83-82cf-226de02a18c4
- Award value
- £67,003.56
- Contract period
- 12 June 2023 – 9 July 2025
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
Contract for the Supply and Installation of Xevo QTof System to the University of Birmingham
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · ocds-b5fd17-f033d334-41b8-490a-ab04-a0646b0ceaf2
- Award value
- £176,301
- Contract period
- 26 May 2023 – 30 June 2023
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
Contract for the Supply and Installation of a Discovery TGA 550 Auto Advanced to the University of Birmingham
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · ocds-b5fd17-0e1fa7c1-4552-456f-8de6-914073931ff9
- Award value
- £39,845.40
- Contract period
- 29 March 2023 – 30 April 2023
- Procedure
- Other - Direct Award
Supply of Parallel Plate Rheometer
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-feba9e8a-7f7e-4793-9998-438c83048e3e
- Award value
- £177,897.50
- Contract period
- 20 March 2023 – 19 February 2027
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
Liquid Chromatography System
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON · ocds-b5fd17-0bbb5133-244f-4079-adf3-994d520617f8
- Award value
- £66,426.23
- Contract period
- 9 March 2023 – 8 May 2028
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
Framework for UPLC, UHPLC and HPLC Equipment
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-ffd11427-0822-4144-8770-08dd386c46cd
- Award value
- £5,000,000
- Contract period
- 28 February 2023 – 27 February 2027
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
2714 - Framework for UPLC, UHPLC and HPLC Equipment
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-533b24da-2237-4644-ba90-9b0ca4336cf3
- Award value
- £5,000,000
- Contract period
- 28 February 2023 – 27 February 2027
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
Service contract for the Waters Xevo TQXS mass spectrometry instrument
UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA · ocds-b5fd17-c9751935-452c-4cee-945c-a9f33cf44515
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 29 March 2023 – 28 March 2024
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
3406/NAMRC/JS/2022 - Flash Analyser for Thermal Diffusivity Measurements
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · ocds-b5fd17-063a5c1f-b606-478f-9322-4068134a2741
- Award value
- £174,000
- Contract period
- 28 November 2022 – 27 November 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
3325/JN - Sustainable Aviation Fuels - Innovation Centre: Further Aviation Characterisation Laboratory Equipment (14 Lots)
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · ocds-b5fd17-065ba28b-5595-4387-b5c1-03bb4c85969d
- Award value
- £302,754.15
- Contract period
- 1 November 2022 – 2 November 2022
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
Supply of Heat Flow Calorimeter
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory · ocds-b5fd17-6534191f-4c72-46bf-8d89-799417075c4f
- Award value
- £202,524
- Contract period
- 31 October 2022 – 31 January 2023
- Procedure
- Other - Single tender action DSPCR
2D-LC-IMS-HRMS Instrumentation
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON · ocds-b5fd17-09ec46c8-67ba-4ef7-94f4-66af47616d33
- Award value
- £764,485.70
- Contract period
- 30 September 2022 – 31 December 2027
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
Contract for the Supply and Installation of a Dynamic Mechanical Analyser (DMA) to the University of Birmingham
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · ocds-b5fd17-e72dba97-5529-444c-a43f-3d8f788fb04c
- Award value
- £156,157
- Contract period
- 24 June 2022 – 25 July 2022
- Procedure
- Other - Direct Award
Contract for the Supply and Installation of ACQUITY UPLC H-Class PLUS System (MS) (SA) MassLynx Acquisition Performance PC FlexCHOICE YEA732 MSMS FlexCHOICE YEA1206 MSMS to the University of Birmingham
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · ocds-b5fd17-a4ff5205-f8c1-456a-b904-4af8e59a91e4
- Award value
- £177,000
- Contract period
- 1 June 2022 – 31 July 2022
- Procedure
- Other - Direct Award
Contract for the Supply and Installation of an ElectroForce 5500 Axial 230V Tabletop Instrument plus accessories to the University of Birmingham
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · ocds-b5fd17-6dc53570-7f24-485a-b0a1-1ddec045be25
- Award value
- £29,159.70
- Contract period
- 5 April 2022 – 9 June 2022
- Procedure
- Other - Direct Award
Contract for the Supply and Installation of a Dynamic Mechanical Analyser (DMA) to the University of Birmingham
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · ocds-b5fd17-525da587-c72d-4743-b4ee-8e55d34a2f6e
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 22 March 2022 – 26 April 2022
- Procedure
- Other - Direct Award
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.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Micromass Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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08 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.
09 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.
10 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.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Mass Spectrometry Maintenance, Support and Equipment purchasing
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · updated 18 August 2026
- Tender value
- £10,000,000
- Awards
- 5
MFT-MT-0413 XEVO TQ-XS, UPLC I BIN SOL MGR, UPLC I SMP MGR-FL , S/W Benefits MLY
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust · updated 28 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
F002 Framework for Supply, delivery and/or installation, calibration, maintenance and repair of equipment for NIW Science Centres
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED · updated 14 May 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 9
Equipment Purchase - DSC2500 and TGA55
University of Lincoln · updated 9 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Service Contract
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER · updated 3 March 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Supply, Installation, and Support of DSC250 Thermal Analysis System
Sheffield Hallam University · updated 20 February 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
CSP25368 - Service contract for HPLC system
UK Research and Innovation · updated 16 September 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Isothermal Calorimeter
ASTON UNIVERSITY · updated 13 August 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Service Maintenance of ECD System
YORK AND SCARBOROUGH TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · updated 30 July 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
DSC ( Differential Scanning Calorimetry and a TGA ( Thermogravimetric Analysis) equipment
University of Portsmouth Higher Education Corporation · updated 29 May 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Purchase, Supply, Delivery, Installation, Training and Warranty of Compact Mass Spectrophotometer
UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX(THE) · updated 13 March 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
2714 - Framework for UPLC, UHPLC and HPLC Equipment
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · updated 1 March 2023
- Tender value
- £5,000,000
- Awards
- 1
3406/NAMRC/JS/22 - Flash Analyser for Thermal Diffusivity Measurements
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · updated 30 November 2022
- Tender value
- £175,000
- Awards
- 1
3325/JN - Sustainable Aviation Fuels - Innovation Centre: Further Aviation Characterisation Laboratory Equipment (14 Lots)
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · updated 28 November 2022
- Tender value
- £435,000
- Awards
- 14
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12 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.
13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Manufacture of electronic measuring, testing etc. equipment, not for industrial process control
14 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
14 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.
15 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
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
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.
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