LIFE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, PA4 9RF : Companies House Number SC083107

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Overview

Company type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 1983-05-13
Registered office: 3 Fountain Drive, Inchinnan Business Park, Paisley, PA4 9RF
Postcode: PA4 9RF
Capital: 50 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: 2026-05-03
Next due by: 2027-05-17

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Nature of business (SIC)

32990 Other manufacturing not elsewhere classified

Officers 11 current · 24 resigned

Georgina Adams GREEN Director

Appointed 2024-04-18

Alison Jane STARR Director

Appointed 2024-04-18

Syed Waqas AHMED Director

Appointed 2020-03-23

Euan Daney Ross CAMERON Director

Appointed 2018-10-31

Anthony Hugh SMITH Director

Appointed 2017-10-06

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Group structure

Controlled by THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC LIFE HOLDINGS 2 LIMITED — since 2023-03-07

Controlled by THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC LIFE HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2016-04-06

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

Public contracts won 59

£8,560,247,031 total awarded value where published.

Applied Biosystems QuantStudio 5 Quantitative PCR cycler & analysis system & a TaqMan RNase P Instrument Verification Kit

UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND 2025-06-25 £29,930
RFL - QS5 0.2ML QPCR SYSTEM, NHSSC CONTRACT REF - Contract Reference Number: 2023/S 000-028831

Partners Procurement Service 2025-03-19 £34,724
Cell Sorter for Biological Sciences

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON 2025-03-06 £532,017
GSS24728 - SuperFi II PCR kit

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED 2024-10-01 £10,141
GSS23744 - UK Research and Innovation: Molecular Biology and Laboratory Chemicals Framework

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED 2024-08-20 £0

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Licensed visa sponsor

Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker (Worker (A rating)), 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 — Z1823006 (Tier 3), registered since 2009.

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

Gender pay gap

6.7%

Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity

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Previous company names

Name	Date changed
INVITROGEN LIMITED	2011-04-01
LIFE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED	2001-05-04
GIBCO LIMITED	1990-01-16

Previous registered addresses 2

Address	Changed on
INVITROGEN LIMITED, 3 FOUNTAIN DRIVE, INCHINNAN BUSINESS PARK, PAISLEY, PA4 9RF	2012-08-03
PO BOX 35, 3 FOUNTAIN DRIVE, INCHINNAN, RENFREW, RENFREWSHIRE PA4 9RF	2000-01-26

Among its peers

Among the oldest 25%

of 36 similar companies in PA, trading since 1983

The class of 1983

51%

of the 13,141 companies incorporated in 1983 are still active today; 40% have since been dissolved.

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

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Property in England & Wales 2 titles

Freehold: 1
Leasehold: 1
Most recent registration: 2021-02-18
Where: Warrington (2)

Title number	County	Tenure	Registered	Price paid
CH700841	Warrington	Leasehold	2021-02-18	—
CH296577	Warrington	Freehold	2011-04-28	—

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