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R.E. Bowers & Freeman Limited

Bowers & Freeman - Aerospace fasteners |silicone dies, engraved dies, type and wordblocks, precision engineering - Bowers & Freeman UK : Bowers & Freeman

Aerospace fasteners |silicone dies, engraved dies, type and wordblocks, precision engineering - Bowers & Freeman UK

CRN
00674029
Founded
1960
Age
65

Overview

Legal name
R.E. BOWERS & FREEMAN LIMITED
Region
East Midlands
Registered address
15 SAFFRON ROAD
SOUTH WIGSTON
LEICESTER
LEICESTERSHIRE
UNITED KINGDOM
LE18 4TG
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

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Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

5 events
20 Apr
2027

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

30 Sep
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

06 Apr
2026

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Dec
2024

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

02 Nov
1960

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

2 awards
First funded
2014
Funded years
2014, 2015, 2018
Age at first award
53 years

Projects

2018 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Pulsed-electrochemical machine and process to manufacture powder metallurgy fastener punches.

1 Dec 2018 to 28 Feb 2021

Awarded
£159,050
Total cost £353,445

In addition to our original scope, we now also wish to also investigate the following in our final quarter: Credit cards require a security secure holographic hot foil print on the reverse side of the card. The hot foil printing on to a rigid substrate is extremely difficult and holographic foil compounds this difficulty. We wish to investigate in this fi...

2015 GRD Development of Prototype Lead participant

Advanced Tooling Technology for the Aerospace Fastener Industry

1 Apr 2015 to 31 Mar 2017

Awarded
£195,645
Total cost £434,766

Aircraft Fasteners (AFs – e.g. crucifix screw head recess and other styles) secure an array of mechanical aircraft components; a Boeing 787 comprises 40K AFs. AF punches are manufactured by ‘hobbing’ whereby the master hob carries a recess similar to the final AF recess and are driven at high pressures 250 tonnes+ into a punch blank made of M2 or M42 mate...

2014 GRD Proof of Market Lead participant

Advanced Tooling Technology for the Aerospace Fastener Industry

1 Feb 2014 to 31 Jul 2014

Awarded
£24,999
Total cost £57,088

B&F would like to further research & investigate the aerospace fastener manufacture market. The project aims to test and evaluate whether or not their newly proposed method of producing master hobs and subsequent punches for aerospace fastener manufacture would provide tooling with advanced wear properties whilst enabling reduced overall punch manufacturi...

Product types

Collaborative R&D GRD Development of Prototype GRD Proof of Market