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Heat Trace Limited

Suppliers of electric heat tracing equipment | Heat Trace

One of the world's leading manufacturers of electric heat tracing equipment for both process temperature maintenance and freeze protection applications.

CRN
01573447
Founded
1981
Age
44

Overview

Legal name
HEAT TRACE LIMITED
Region
North West England
Registered address
MERES EDGE CHESTER ROAD
HELSBY
FRODSHAM
CHESHIRE
WA6 0DJ
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

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Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

5 events
14 Jan
2027

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

30 Sep
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

31 Dec
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Dec
2024

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

10 Jul
1981

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

11 awards
First funded
2008
Funded years
2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2020
Age at first award
27 years

Projects

2020 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Application for a Continuity grant for the existing Innovate UK Project No: 133864 and other Covid effected projects

1 Jun 2020 to 30 Nov 2020

Awarded
£44,333
Total cost £44,333

no public description

2020 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

University of Sheffield and Heat Trace Limited

1 Apr 2020 to 31 Dec 2022

Awarded
Unknown

To develop new monitoring and control processes that are designed to improve the current manufacturing of existing products and develop novel manufacturing processes for the next generation of electric heating products.

2019 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Novel self-regulating CHIP (Cooling and Heating Integrated Pipe) thermal management systems for EV batteries

1 Sep 2019 to 28 Feb 2021

Awarded
£111,798
Total cost £186,330

"This is a 12-month feasibility project with 3 partners, Heat Trace Ltd (Lead Partner and SME), Nobel Autoparts UK Ltd (Tier 1 supplier and a Large company) and Warwick Manufacturing Group (RTO) Our vision is the transfer Heat Trace's aluminium-based polymeric smart self-regulating technology into Battery Thermal Management systems. Self-regulating heater...

2016 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

The University of Manchester and Heat Trace Limited

1 Aug 2016 to 31 Jan 2019

Awarded
Unknown

To design, develop and embed an advanced software system that will design and monitor total life cycle of installed trace heating systems, for novel applications such as commissioning, planned maintenance and monitoring and control of trace heating systems.

2014 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Feasibility study into novel new materials for heat tracing applications inside nuclear containment

1 Nov 2014 to 30 Sep 2016

Awarded
£110,193
Total cost £146,923

This project will develop, for application in nuclear power and processing, an electrical heating cable which is capable of high temperature withstand and resistance to irradiation. The cable will be a high temperature type built around a novel self-regulating core material suitable for nuclear application. This self-regulating cable, built on new materia...

2014 GRD Development of Prototype Lead participant

Development of Protoypes of Novel Laminar Heaters

1 Oct 2014 to 30 Sep 2016

Awarded
£250,000
Total cost £750,937

Heat Trace is the technical world leader in the manufacture of self-regulating heating cables, used primarily for heating pipes within the oil/gas market sector. The heating cables comprise two stranded circular copper conductors embedded within a semi-conductive polymeric heating material For this project, the intention is the use of Heat Trace’s base te...

2013 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

The University of Manchester And Heat Trace Limited

1 May 2013 to 29 Feb 2016

Awarded
Unknown

To develop and market remote monitoring and control equipment for electrical trace heating products, into the UK and global Nuclear market.

2012 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Energy efficient heating systems for snow melting and ice prevention of rail switch points

1 Sep 2012 to 30 Nov 2013

Awarded
£205,597
Total cost £495,551

This project will develop, for snow melting and ice prevention of rail switch points, an electric heating system which will require less energy than conventional switch point heaters. This new heating system will be have 4 elements: a self- regulating semi-conductive polymeric heater, an advanced intelligent control system, a thermal insulation system and...

2011 Feasibility Studies

Novel processing of self regulating trace heating polymers

1 May 2011 to 31 Jul 2011

Awarded
£8,048
Total cost £10,730

Awaiting Public Summary

2009 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Heatal Project: Replacement of Copper with Aluminum in Electrical Heating Cables

1 Oct 2009 to 30 Sep 2012

Awarded
£687,984
Total cost £1,475,022

The 5 partners in this project are Heat Trace Ltd, University of Manchester, Innoval Technology, 3M UK and Watlow Ltd. This project has been very successful and showed that 1) Aluminium can replace copper in existing electrical heating products and significantly reduce costs. These products will be more competitive in existing and new markets 2) The use o...

2008 Collaborative R&D

Development of graphite/polymer nanocomposite material(Nano-Graph)

1 Oct 2008 to 30 Sep 2011

Awarded
£8,425
Total cost £65,127

Awaiting Public Summary

Product types

Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies GRD Development of Prototype Knowledge Transfer Partnership