{"name":"SPECIALTY SCANNERS LIMITED","company_number":"04056406","status":"Liquidation","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"2000-08-21","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"Lynwood House 373-375 Station Road, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 2AW","postcode":"HA1 2AW","sic_codes":[{"code":28990,"description":"Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery not elsewhere classified"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[{"name":"SPECIALTY SCANNERS PLC","changed_on":"2015-01-12"}],"warnings":["The annual accounts for this company are overdue.","The confirmation statement for this company is overdue."],"accounts":{"category":"Total Exemption Full","year_end":"28 February","last_made_up_to":"2023-02-28","next_due":"2024-11-30"},"employees":null,"financials":[{"financial_date":"2023-02-28","net_assets":1042186,"cash":9963},{"financial_date":"2022-02-28","net_assets":1045346,"cash":12975},{"financial_date":"2021-02-28","net_assets":1050324,"cash":18163},{"financial_date":"2020-02-28","net_assets":1035385,"cash":57546},{"financial_date":"2019-02-28","net_assets":1044538,"cash":42939}],"officers":{"current":0,"resigned":11,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":0,"outstanding":0},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"Specialty Scanners Limited is a SIC 28990 special-purpose machinery registrant whose filed accounts in fact describe a dormant holding vehicle — zero employees, no tangible assets or stock, and £1.06m of assets almost entirely composed of a static £771k intercompany receivable and a £260k unlisted subsidiary investment. It is effectively debt-free with £1.04m net worth, but carries negative reserves, overdue accounts and confirmation statement, and a Liquidation status that places it outside meaningful competitive benchmarking against the £2–10m-turnover, 20–80-employee SME norm for the sector. Any assessment of competitive standing in UK special-purpose machinery must be made at subsidiary level, where exposure to the automation/inspection tailwind, the 2023–24 capex slowdown and the 2027 EU Machinery Regulation transition would actually be felt.","website":"http://www.specialtyscanners.com","links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/specialty-scanners","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/specialty-scanners/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/specialty-scanners/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04056406","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/specialty-scanners/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/specialty-scanners/control","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/specialty-scanners/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/specialty-scanners"}