CROSSBOWS OPTICAL LIMITED

Company number NI020335 ·

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Shareholders' funds

£27,884,438

Balance sheet as at 2023-12-31

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What it does

During the financial year the principal continuing activities of the Company consisted of facilitating the manufacture of plastic ophthalmic lenses by means of software for freeform machining lenses.

The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.

Overview

Company type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
1987-04-01
Employees
12 (2025 accounts · was 30 in 2023)
Registered office
Unit 1 Halfpenny Valley, Industrial Estate, Portadown Road, Lurgan, Craigavon, BT66 8TP
Postcode
BT66 8TP
Capital
500,000 GBP
Accounts category
Full

Accounts

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

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2026-07-24
Next due by
2027-08-07
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 32990 Other manufacturing not elsewhere classified

Officers 5 current · 17 resigned

Subscribers only Secretary
Subscribers only Appointed 2023-10-01
Subscribers only Director
Appointed 2019-09-02
Subscribers only Director
Appointed 2017-05-01
Subscribers only Director
Appointed 2014-06-01
Subscribers only Director
Appointed 1987-04-01

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Group structure

Controlled by EMNUK LIMITED — since 2016-04-06

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

Data protection registration

Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA677451 (Tier 2), registered since 2020.

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

Contact details

Website
crossbowsoptical.com
Phone
002081334, 00366437-260, 04175076038

Crossbows Optical is a freeform design supplier delivering advanced ophthalmic and progressive lens designs to laboratories worldwide, backed by 80 years of expert innovation.

Previous company names

NameDate changed
PANCHEON LIMITED2000-01-01

Among its peers

Top 1%

by shareholders' funds, of 341 similar companies in BT

Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1987.

No.2 of the largest other manufacturing not elsewhere classified companies in Belfast →

Competitors Belfast

This company ranks 2 among other manufacturing not elsewhere classified in Belfast.

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The class of 1987

58%

of the 211 companies in this sector incorporated in 1987 are still active today; 39% have since been dissolved.

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

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