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Caterpillar (U.K.) Limited

UK company 00484783, incorporated on 27 July 1950.

Caterpillar (U.K.) Limited is a UK company with status active founded in 1950 based in East Midlands.

Company number
00484783
Incorporated
27 Jul 1950
Companies House status
Active

Company identity

Founded / incorporated
27 July 1950

Company number 00484783

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Legal name
CATERPILLAR (U.K.) LIMITED
Company type
LTD
Region
East Midlands
Registered address
Unknown
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

Updated 07 Jul 2026 09:49

Controls 2
Caterpillar (U.K.) Limited
No active corporate controller recorded.

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

1 event
27 Jul
1950

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

7 awards
First funded
2005
Funded years
2005, 2007, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
Age at first award
55 years

Projects

2019 BIS-Funded Programmes Lead participant

Electrification of an off-highway vehicle

1 Aug 2019 to 31 Jul 2022

Awarded
£1,421,842
Total cost £3,467,908

Public description The public description is being reviewed by the Caterpillar corporate public affairs team and will be provided once approved.

2017 Collaborative R&D

Advanced Powertrain With Energy Storage (APWES)

1 May 2017 to 30 Jun 2021

Awarded
£0
Total cost £0

Caterpillar drivetrain and engine divisions in partnership with Flybrid group (part of Torotrak group) and University of Hertfordshire will conduct a 48 month program to develop and commercialize a leading edge continuously variable hydrostatic transmission with a flywheel based energy storage system for off highway machines and construction equipment. Th...

2016 BIS-Funded Programmes

Disruptive Integrated Electric Transmissions for Industrial Vehicles (DIET)

1 Nov 2016 to 31 Jul 2019

Awarded
£103,537
Total cost £230,083

Disruptive Integrated Electric Transmissions for Industrial Vehicles (DIET) will develop integrated electrified transmissions. The integrated electric transmissions consist of a combined motor and inverter integrated into one of three separate drive units: a hydraulic pump, a planetary gearbox or an axle. Generating a range of integrated e-pumps, e-axles ...

2015 Collaborative R&D

Interior Permanent Magnet (IPM) e-Cartridge

1 Apr 2015 to 30 Jun 2016

Awarded
£55,970
Total cost £111,939

The IPM e-Cartridge project will develop the equivalent of a power tool ‘base unit’ with ‘multi-purpose adaptors’, but for low voltage off-highway traction and implementation drives. In this case the ‘base unit’ is a fully integrated Interior Permanent Magnet (IPM) motor & controlle cartridge and the ‘multi-puropse adaptors’ include hydraulic pumps, e-axl...

2010 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Vehicle Energy Recovery through an Intelligent Turbo Assist System

1 Jan 2010 to 31 Dec 2013

Awarded
£579,361
Total cost £1,931,203

The TSB-funded VERITAS project led by Caterpillar UK Engines Co. Ltd, in partnership with BorgWarner Ltd, Imperial College London and Loughborough University is developing solutions to realise powertrain-level CO2 savings. These solutions in the form of advanced diesel engine air system technologies and associated controls will be harnessed to provide imp...

2007 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Novel, environmentally friendly, compact diesel engine and vehicle cooling systems

1 Aug 2007 to 30 Apr 2011

Awarded
£528,151
Total cost £1,156,958

Awaiting Public Summary

2005 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Design of Radically Low Emission Diesels by Advanced Modelling

1 Dec 2005 to 31 May 2009

Awarded
£449,800
Total cost £1,266,471

Awaiting Public Summary

Product types

BIS-Funded Programmes Collaborative R&D