{"name":"CAPARO ENGINEERING LIMITED","company_number":"03450375","status":"Liquidation","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"1997-10-15","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"Floor 8 Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, LS1 4DL","postcode":"LS1 4DL","sic_codes":[{"code":24510,"description":"Casting of iron"},{"code":24540,"description":"Casting of other non-ferrous metals"},{"code":25990,"description":"Manufacture of other fabricated metal products not elsewhere classified"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[{"name":"SUPREMO 2000 LIMITED","changed_on":"1997-12-17"}],"warnings":["The annual accounts for this company are overdue.","The confirmation statement for this company is overdue."],"accounts":{"category":"Full","year_end":"31 December","last_made_up_to":"2014-12-31","next_due":"2016-09-30"},"employees":null,"financials":[],"officers":{"current":1,"resigned":26,"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":1,"outstanding":1},"gazette_notices":[{"date":"2026-08-11","kind":"other"},{"date":"2026-07-28","kind":"other"},{"date":"2021-12-01","kind":"insolvency"},{"date":"2019-05-15","kind":"insolvency"},{"date":"2018-11-08","kind":"insolvency"},{"date":"2016-11-25","kind":"insolvency"},{"date":"2016-05-25","kind":"insolvency"},{"date":"2016-03-11","kind":"insolvency"},{"date":"2015-10-28","kind":"other"}],"insolvency_outcome":{"active_today":false,"filings":[{"form":"LIQ14","date":"2024-02-21","description":"Return of final meeting in a creditors' voluntary winding up"}]},"ai_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.","website":null,"links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/caparo-engineering","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/caparo-engineering/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/caparo-engineering/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03450375","gazette":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/caparo-engineering/gazette","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/caparo-engineering/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/caparo-engineering/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/caparo-engineering"}