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C4 Carbides Limited

C4 Carbides Cutting Edge Technology - Diamond & Tungsten Carbide Grit Blades

Market leading innovative solutions for cutting. Diamond grit edged and tungsten carbide grit edged blades. Bandsaws,hole saws, reciprocating saws and jig saws.

CRN
01902912
Founded
1985
Age
41

Overview

Legal name
C4 CARBIDES LIMITED
Region
North West England
Registered address
3RD FLOOR
1 ASHLEY ROAD
ALTRINCHAM
CHESHIRE
UNITED KINGDOM
WA14 2DT
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

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Latest accounts

Financial period: 1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2024

FULLACCOUNTS
Turnover
Unknown
Profit / Loss
£77,362
Employees
50

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

6 events
30 Sep
2027

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

14 Jul
2026

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

03 Jul
2026

Confirmation Statement With No Updates

Confirmation-statement

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31 Dec
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

30 Jun
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

04 Apr
1985

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

8 awards
First funded
2011
Funded years
2011, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2021
Age at first award
26 years

Projects

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Formation of Super-hard Wear Resistant Coating using Energy Efficient Reactive Laser Additive Manufacturing Technique (REALM)

1 May 2021 to 30 Apr 2023

Awarded
£258,718
Total cost £431,196

The REALM project will develop a new, sustainable manufacturing technology to produce hard-facings for downhole drilling tools. The proprietary technology uses a novel metal additive manufacturing process based on Directed Energy Deposition (DED) to form highly wear resistant hard-facing coatings in-situ, using elemental powders. The super-hard coating is...

2020 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

University of Hertfordshire and C4 Carbides Limited

1 Dec 2020 to 31 Mar 2023

Awarded
Unknown

To create a new carbide composition for metal additive manufacturing processes and technologies for linear edge saw blades.

2020 Study Lead participant

Super-hard tooth formation on linear edge saw blades using Selective Laser Melting process - SmartTeeth

1 Feb 2020 to 31 Jul 2021

Awarded
£148,935
Total cost £212,764

"C4 Carbides innovative saw blade development program will use Selective Laser Melting (SLM), a metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology, to fuse super-abrasive powder to form tooling grade hard materials into net shape 'sharp' cutting teeth, eliminating the needs of post process grinding. UK patents for this concept have been filed. Compared to conve...

2018 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

'Zero radius' laser forming of tungsten carbide/superabrasive cutting edges and teeth

1 Apr 2018 to 31 Mar 2020

Awarded
£485,035
Total cost £692,907

"We will use innovative additive manufacturing to radically update the process for forming hard teeth on saw blades. The most commonly used tooth tip material is tungsten carbide. In a typical tipped blade less than 1% of the high value wear material is used. The rest is machined off during the manufacturing process or left on the base and discarded when ...

2014 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Linear edge Superabrasives

1 Jul 2014 to 31 Dec 2015

Awarded
£129,170
Total cost £215,283

C4 Carbides currently manufactures linear edge tunsten carbide and diamond coated strip for cutting and drilling products. Tungsten is high on the list of ‘at risk’ minerals so there is an incentive to substitute tungsten carbide by other minerals. Diamond is a good alternative in many applications but is not suitable for ferrous materials. Cubic Boron Ni...

2013 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Diamond re-tooling

1 Nov 2013 to 28 Feb 2014

Awarded
£24,750
Total cost £33,000

The project concerns new coatings for the cutting tools used in many advanced and high-value manufacturing applications. It will explore systematically the possibility of simultaneously (i) substituting diamond grit for tungsten carbide using a novel coating technology and (ii) retooling worn out tools and cutting blades rather than disposing of them. In ...

2013 GRD Development of Prototype Lead participant

Brazed Diamond Band Saw Development (Revised)

1 Jan 2013 to 30 Sep 2014

Awarded
£250,000
Total cost £714,243

C4 Carbides currently manufactures and sells three product ranges: synthetic diamond-coated & tungsten carbide-coated power drill accessories and tungsten carbide saw blades. These are sold to some of the world’s leading brands including Bosch, Black and Decker, AEG and Hitachi. We have developed a novel method for diamond coating. This project aims to co...

2011 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

University of Hertfordshire And C4 Carbides Limited

1 Sep 2011 to 31 Jan 2014

Awarded
Unknown

To develop a capability in new diamond-to-steel bonding processes to enable expansion of linear edge technology into new products and markets.

Product types

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