GENERAL ALL PURPOSE PLASTICS LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£38,887,173
Balance sheet as at 2025-05-29
What it does
distribution and manufacture of PVCu doors, window accessories and building products.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1992-11-25
- Employees
- 987 (2025 accounts · was 936 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Partnership Way, Shadsworth Business Park, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB1 2QP
- Postcode
- BB1 2QP
- Capital
- 3,677,683 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-05-29
- Next due by
- 2027-02-28
- Financial year end
- 29 May
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-08
- Next due by
- 2027-07-22
Nature of business (SIC)
- 22290 Manufacture of other plastic products
Officers 8 current · 7 resigned
Group structure 3 subsidiaries
Controlled by GENERAL ALL PURPOSE PLASTICS HOLDINGS LTD — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 2
£1,795,000,000 total awarded value where published.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Contracts Finder).
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
Matched by registered name to the register of licensed sponsors (Home Office, updated daily) — check the register itself before relying on it. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA163936 (Tier 3), registered since 2016.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
2.8%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| SILVERLINK LIMITED | 1993-01-13 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| PARTNERSHIP WAY, SHADSWORTH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, BLACKBURN, LANCASHIRE BB1 2PT | 2003-08-29 |
| UNIT 3, HUNCOAT BUSINESS PARK, NEWHOUSE ROAD, ACCRINGTON BB5 6NT | 1998-08-13 |
| 84 TEMPLE CHAMBERS, TEMPLE AVENUE, LONDON, EC4Y 0HP | 1993-02-02 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 59 similar companies in BB
The largest employer among its local peers (987 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1992.
No.1 of the largest manufacture of other plastic products companies in Blackburn →
Competitors Blackburn
This company ranks 1 among manufacture of other plastic products in Blackburn.
The class of 1992
49%
of the 21,839 companies incorporated in 1992 are still active today; 46% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 84 titles
- Leasehold
- 84
- Most recent registration
- 2025-09-12
- Price paid, where recorded
- £28,620
- Where
- West Yorkshire (6), Greater Manchester (5), West Midlands (5)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAN475834 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2025-09-12 | — |
| HS417197 | North Lincolnshire | Leasehold | 2025-07-01 | — |
| CYM906796 | Wrexham | Leasehold | 2025-04-17 | — |
| HP894374 | Southampton | Leasehold | 2025-04-15 | — |
| CH738954 | Cheshire West And Chester | Leasehold | 2025-02-27 | — |
| LL434130 | Lincolnshire | Leasehold | 2025-02-27 | — |
| MAN452408 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2025-02-27 | — |
| MS720102 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2025-02-27 | — |
| LAN296209 | Lancashire | Leasehold | 2025-02-25 | — |
| CH738865 | Cheshire West And Chester | Leasehold | 2025-02-24 | — |
| DY587762 | Derbyshire | Leasehold | 2025-02-19 | — |
| MM208087 | West Midlands | Leasehold | 2025-01-29 | — |
| NT593696 | City Of Nottingham | Leasehold | 2024-11-15 | — |
| LAN288559 | Blackburn With Darwen | Leasehold | 2024-07-08 | — |
| TY605405 | Tyne And Wear | Leasehold | 2024-07-05 | — |
| ESX432537 | East Sussex | Leasehold | 2024-05-08 | — |
| ST387633 | Somerset | Leasehold | 2024-05-08 | — |
| SYK717011 | South Yorkshire | Leasehold | 2024-04-12 | — |
| DN777429 | Devon | Leasehold | 2024-04-10 | — |
| DY580735 | City Of Derby | Leasehold | 2024-04-10 | — |
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