{"name":"CRANE PROCESS FLOW TECHNOLOGIES LTD","company_number":"00447239","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"1947-12-30","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"Grange Road, Cwmbran, Gwent, NP44 3XX","postcode":"NP44 3XX","sic_codes":[{"code":28140,"description":"Manufacture of taps and valves"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[{"name":"ALFA LAVAL SAUNDERS LIMITED","changed_on":"2001-04-03"},{"name":"SAUNDERS VALVE COMPANY LIMITED","changed_on":"1996-02-14"}],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Full","year_end":"31 December","last_made_up_to":"2025-12-31","next_due":"2027-09-30"},"employees":null,"financials":[],"officers":{"current":3,"resigned":27,"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":"CRANE PROCESS FLOW TECHNOLOGIES LTD occupies a premium, highly defensible niche within the UK valve manufacturing sector, leveraging the legendary \"Saunders\" diaphragm valve heritage to serve lucrative hygienic and biopharmaceutical markets. While it faces the same macroeconomic headwinds as broader UK manufacturing—namely high energy costs and input inflation—its structural integration as a subsidiary of Crane Limited provides significant financial resilience and global distribution scale that standalone competitors simply cannot match. The recent shifts in its American-directed board signal ongoing corporate realignment, but the underlying brand equity and specialized product focus ensure its continued dominance in sterile process flow applications.","website":null,"links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/crane-process-flow-technologies","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/crane-process-flow-technologies/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/crane-process-flow-technologies/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00447239","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/crane-process-flow-technologies/control","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/crane-process-flow-technologies/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/crane-process-flow-technologies"}