CAPARO ENGINEERING LIMITED

Company number 03450375 ·

Liquidation

The annual accounts for this company are overdue.

The confirmation statement for this company is overdue.

Executive summary

CAPARO ENGINEERING LIMITED represents a high-profile casualty of the structural challenges facing the UK metals manufacturing sector, having entered liquidation following the collapse of the wider Caparo group. Despite its historical scale and diversified casting capabilities, the company fell victim to the toxic combination of global overcapacity, spiraling UK energy costs, and legacy operational structures that rendered it uncompetitive against both low-cost imports and agile, high-spec domestic peers. Its current status and overdue filings reflect a total operational and financial failure typical of heavy industry firms that lacked the capital agility to weather the mid-2010s commodity downturn.

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Overview

Company type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
1997-10-15
Registered office
Floor 8 Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, LS1 4DL
Postcode
LS1 4DL
Capital
1,000 GBP
Accounts category
Full
Charges
1 outstanding

Accounts

Last made up to
2014-12-31
Next due by
2016-09-30 Overdue
Financial year end
31 December

Confirmation statement

Next due by
2016-10-29 Overdue
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 24510 Casting of iron
  • 24540 Casting of other non-ferrous metals
  • 25990 Manufacture of other fabricated metal products not elsewhere classified

Officers 1 current · 26 resigned

Appointed 1998-07-20

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Previous company names

NameDate changed
SUPREMO 2000 LIMITED1997-12-17

Previous registered addresses 3

AddressChanged on
7 MORE LONDON RIVERSIDE, LONDON, SE1 2RT2017-10-07
CAPARO HOUSE, 103 BAKER STREET, LONDON, W1U 6LN2016-01-12
61 FAIRVIEW AVENUE, WIGMORE, GILLINGHAM, KENT ME8 0QP1997-12-18

The class of 1997

44%

of the 50,527 companies incorporated in 1997 are still active today; 54% have since been dissolved.

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