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Shelton Machines Limited

Shelton machine vision systems and solutions

Shelton Vision provide powerful, cost effective machine vision and inspection systems that detect defects and yield returns against your bottom line.

CRN
01018472
Founded
1971
Age
54

Overview

Legal name
SHELTON MACHINES LIMITED
Region
East Midlands
Registered address
NO 1 PRIORY BUSINESS PARK,
WISTOW ROAD
KIBWORTH
LEICESTER
LE8 0RX
Insolvency history
No

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

6 events
31 Jan
2027

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

30 Jun
2026

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

22 Jun
2026

Confirmation Statement With Updates

Confirmation-statement

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Published 22 Jun 2026 13:39

16 Jun
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

30 Apr
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

22 Jul
1971

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

4 awards
First funded
2007
Funded years
2007, 2017, 2018, 2020
Age at first award
36 years

Projects

2020 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Automated commissioning, set-up and operation of a novel fabric inspection system delivering objective quality control and a fully remote customer journey

1 Oct 2020 to 30 Jun 2021

Awarded
£168,387
Total cost £210,484

Textiles and garment supply chains are enduring disruption due to the Covid-19 crises. Retailers have not been able to sell products through their bricks and mortar outlets. Supply chains are complex and globally dispersed. Production orders within the supply chains have been cancelled or curtailed, many of the geographic regions have not been able to off...

2018 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Novel real-time algorithms and system architecture for defect detection on patterned textiles

1 Nov 2018 to 31 Jul 2020

Awarded
£271,288
Total cost £387,554

The global textile industry produces \>170 billion metres of fabric generating a market value of \>£640 Billion. \>25% of textiles are patterned fabrics. Defect detection represents a major industry challenge. Failure to provide textiles within defect tolerance limits can lead to whole batch recalls, resulting in costly customer claims and downstream prod...

2017 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

University of Leicester and Shelton Machines Ltd

1 Nov 2017 to 31 Oct 2019

Awarded
Unknown

To develop an innovative, rapidly-deployable, self-configuring machine-vision inspection technology with unrivalled hardware/commissioning costs and performance for the wider textiles industry.

2007 Collaborative R&D

Integrated Textile Solution for Ultraviolet Resistance of Airships and Related Craft

1 Oct 2007 to 30 Sep 2011

Awarded
£47,456
Total cost £94,660

Awaiting Public Summary

Product types

Collaborative R&D Knowledge Transfer Partnership