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Company description
LIFE TECHNOLOGIES BPD UK LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 25 February 1999; registered for 27 years; registered office reported in ALTRINCHAM, CHESHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 21100 · Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records, 1 procurement record. 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
- LIFE TECHNOLOGIES BPD UK LIMITED
- Company number
- 03721319
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 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
25 February 2026Next statement due
11 March 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- -2.3%
- Mean bonus gap
- -8.5%
- Women receiving bonus
- 93.5%
- Men receiving bonus
- 85.5%
- Women in top quartile
- 27.6%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 37.3%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 26.3%
- Women in lower quartile
- 21.3%
Earlier reporting years (5)
- 250 to 4993.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-0.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-1.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-4.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-3.2% 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
- 3 August 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 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
- £37,124,869
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £70,160,901
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £15,262,265
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £28,214,760
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 49.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The most common payment terms is the net 30 Days, but we have several vendors where the payment terms is 60 days
- Dispute resolution process
We have used the invoice dispute resolution as an opportunity to demonstrate how we value our relationship with our suppliers. As a company we place great importance on building and maintaining strong relationships with our suppliers.
An invoice will generally go on hold for payment if there is a dispute on price (invoices vs PO), quantity (ordered vs delivered) & quality. The accounts payable clerk will notify the supplier of any discrepancy either by email or phone. Once the issue has been resolved (usually by credit note received) we release the invoice for payment and it will be paid in the next payment run which occurs every Thursday.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 56.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 53.0 average days to pay27.0% outside terms
- 55.0 average days to pay31.0% outside terms
- 52.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay16.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
- 40.0 average days to pay19.0% 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
LIFE TECHNOLOGIES BPD UK LIMITED
LEI 9845002B92CB965DUD24 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 25 February 1999
- Initial LEI registration
- 14 May 2024
- LEI last updated
- 26 March 2026
- Next renewal
- 14 May 2027
- Managing LOU
- 529900T8BM49AURSDO55
- Other legal names
- HYCLONE UK LIMITED; ACEMEXICO LIMITED
- Legal address
- 3rd Floor, 1 Ashley Road, Altrincham, WA14 2DT, GB
- Headquarters address
- 3rd Floor, 1 Ashley Road, Altrincham, WA14 2DT, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
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
- LIFE TECHNOLOGIES BPD UK LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 20 May 2026
- Sectors
- Healthcare and pharmaceuticals Other
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
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 21 September 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
Other
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Demonstrated progress
We demonstrate progress through continuous improvement of our human rights due diligence and supplier oversight. We monitor key indicators including supplier due diligence response rates, Code of Conduct training effectiveness and completion, EHS metrics, remediation of substantiated human rights concerns, and annual Ethics Hotline effectiveness reviews. We also publish historical human rights performance data and continue to enhance our risk assessment tools and supplier engagement.
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.
07 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Overhead Mixer and Service Contract
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-e6393a01-8384-48e7-8ec9-5441b6c97a3f
- Supplier named in award
- LIFE TECHNOLOGIES BPD UK LIMITED
- Award value
- £46,750.37
- Contract period
- 31 March 2022 – 30 March 2023
- Published
- 8 August 2022
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 38000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-e6393a01-8384-48e7-8ec9-5441b6c97a3f-2022-08-08T14:15:36+01:00
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.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 13 May 2022
The company has not yet completed the steps to find its PSCs
- Notified
- 25 February 2017
- Ceased
- 3 September 2018
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- Delaware
- Legal authority
- United States (Delaware)
- Legal form
- Corporation
- Place registered
- Delaware Division Of Corporations
- Registration number
- 0558016
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 12 November 2018
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
- 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
- Company name
Previous name: HYCLONE UK 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.
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.