UNIVERSAL CONTROL EQUIPMENT LIMITED

Company number 03265730 ·

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Shareholders' funds

£2,287,031

Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31

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Overview

Company type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
1996-10-18
Employees
44 (2025 accounts · was 41 in 2024)
Registered office
Unit 20 Farthing Road, Ipswich, England, IP1 5AP
Postcode
IP1 5AP
Capital
2 GBP
Accounts category
Total Exemption Full
Charges
1 outstanding

Accounts

Last made up to
2025-12-31
Next due by
2027-09-30
Financial year end
31 December

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2026-01-22
Next due by
2027-02-05
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 28990 Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery not elsewhere classified

Officers 5 current · 9 resigned

Subscribers only Director
Subscribers only Appointed 2025-01-02
Subscribers only Director
Appointed 2014-01-01
Subscribers only Secretary
Appointed 2004-12-01
Subscribers only Director
Appointed 1999-01-26
Subscribers only Director
Appointed 1999-01-01

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Group structure

Controlled by UNIVERSAL CONVERTING EQUIPMENT LIMITED — since 2016-04-06

From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.

Licensed visa sponsor

Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).

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Data protection registration

Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA680484 (Tier 2), registered since 2020.

Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Contact details

Website
http://www.universalcontrolequipment.co.uk

Previous registered addresses 4

AddressChanged on
UNIT 12 FARTHING ROAD INDUSTRIAL, ESTATE, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK, IP1 5AP2014-01-21
UNIT 3 HILL VIEW BUSINESS PARK, OLD IPSWICH ROAD, CLAYDON, IPSWICH, SUFFOLK IP6 0AJ2005-03-07
UNIT 6 PENNY CORNER, FARTHING ROAD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, IPSWICH SUFFOLK, IP1 5AP2002-09-26
SCORPIO HOUSE 102 SYDNEY STREET, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW3 6NJ1996-11-08

Among its peers

Top 25%

by shareholders' funds, of 51 similar companies in IP

3rd largest employer among its local peers (44 staff).

Trading since 1996.

No.6 of the largest manufacture of other special-purpose machinery not elsewhere classified companies in Ipswich →

66 companies are registered at this postcode →

Competitors Ipswich

This company ranks 6 among manufacture of other special-purpose machinery not elsewhere classified in Ipswich.

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The class of 1996

45%

of the 41,237 companies incorporated in 1996 are still active today; 53% have since been dissolved.

A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.

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Property in England & Wales 1 title

Freehold
1
Most recent registration
2023-01-05
Price paid, where recorded
£285,000
Where
Suffolk
Title numberCounty Tenure RegisteredPrice paid
SK170101 Suffolk Freehold 2023-01-05 £285,000

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