HIGH FORCE RESEARCH LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£2,913,364
Balance sheet as at 2025-06-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1988-04-27
- Employees
- 52 (2025 accounts · was 56 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Bowburn North Industrial Estate, Bowburn, Durham, DH6 5PF
- Postcode
- DH6 5PF
- Capital
- 6 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-06-30
- Next due by
- 2027-03-31
- Financial year end
- 30 June
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-11-10
- Next due by
- 2026-11-24
Nature of business (SIC)
- 20590 Manufacture of other chemical products not elsewhere classified
Officers 4 current · 3 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by HFR HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED — since 2022-03-18
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z1751177 (Tier 1), registered since 2009.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- highforceresearch.com
HFR Chemistry is an independent CRO / CDMO with the ability to address a wide range of chemistry requirements across multiple industries.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| TAYHIDE LIMITED | 1988-06-15 |
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| UNIT 1D MOUNTJOY RESEARCH, CENTRE,, STOCKTON ROAD, DURHAM DH1 3SW | 1996-01-18 |
| UNIT 1D, MOUNTJOY RESEARCH CENTRE, STOCKTON ROAD, DURHAM DH1 3SW | 1989-12-06 |
| 43 MALVERN DRIVE, STOCKSLEY, NORTH YORKSHIRE, TS9 59S | 1989-10-24 |
| 2 BACHES STREET, LONDON, N1 6UB | 1988-06-15 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 16 similar companies in DH — measured against the wider sector
2nd largest employer among its local peers (52 staff).
Trading since 1988.
The class of 1988
51%
of the 20,915 companies incorporated in 1988 are still active today; 43% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 3 titles
- Freehold
- 2
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2019-07-01
- Where
- County Durham (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DU374751 | County Durham | Leasehold | 2019-07-01 | — |
| DU233882 | County Durham | Freehold | 2000-01-19 | — |
| DU202162 | County Durham | Freehold | 1995-09-22 | — |
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