SPECIAL TESTING LIMITED

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Shareholders' funds

£3,779,230

Balance sheet as at 2025-05-31

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Overview

Company type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
1939-08-05
Employees
38 (2025 accounts · was 36 in 2024)
Registered office
Bacon Lane, Sheffield, S9 3NH
Postcode
S9 3NH
Capital
100,000 GBP
Accounts category
Small
Charges
1 outstanding

Accounts

Last made up to
2025-05-31
Next due by
2027-02-28
Financial year end
31 May

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2025-10-17
Next due by
2026-10-31
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 71200 Technical testing and analysis

Officers 6 current · 5 resigned

Appointed 2022-08-01
Appointed 2016-01-01
Appointed 2005-12-18
Appointed 2005-05-10
Appointed 2005-05-10

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Group structure

Controlled by SPECIAL STEEL CO.,LIMITED — since 2016-04-06

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

Modern slavery statement

Registered a modern slavery statement for 2021 (period to 2021-05-31) as part of the SPECIAL STEEL CO.,LIMITED group statement — 2 years on the registry.

Read the statement summary on the government modern slavery statement registry. 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 — ZA360945 (Tier 2), registered since 2018.

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

Contact details

Website
specialtesting.co.uk

Established in 1939, Special Testing Ltd has been providing materials testing services with quality and integrity, and has established a reputation as one of the UK's leading accredited materials testing companies. Continual improvement programmes have allowed us to grow steadily into extended and enhanced facilities at our original site that opened more than 75 years ago.

Previous company names

NameDate changed
SPECIAL TESTING WORKS LIMITED2008-10-01

Among its peers

Top 5%

by shareholders' funds, of 64 similar companies in S

The largest employer among its local peers (38 staff).

The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1939.

No.1 of the largest technical testing and analysis companies in Sheffield →

Competitors Sheffield

This company ranks 1 among technical testing and analysis in Sheffield.

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