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Colour Tone Masterbatch Limited

UK company 03176153, incorporated on 21 March 1996.

Colour Tone Masterbatch Limited is a UK company with status Active founded in 1996 based in North West England.

Company number
03176153
Incorporated
21 Mar 1996
Companies House status
Active

Company identity

Founded / incorporated
21 March 1996

Company number 03176153

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Legal name
COLOUR TONE MASTERBATCH LIMITED
Company type
Private Limited Company
Region
North West England
Registered address
UNIT B THORNSETT INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
BIRCH VALE
HIGH PEAK
ENGLAND
SK22 1AH
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

Updated 07 Jul 2026 09:49

1 level 1 ultimate controller
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Company Active LTD
Colour Tone Masterbatch Limited
CRN 03176153
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Direct and ultimate controller Active LTD
Prisma Colour Limited
CRN 02658661

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

5 events
17 Apr
2027

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

30 Sep
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

03 Apr
2026

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Dec
2024

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

21 Mar
1996

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

3 awards
First funded
2015
Funded years
2015, 2019, 2020
Age at first award
19 years

Projects

2020 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

COVID-19 Support for NIR Plas project 104686

1 Jun 2020 to 28 Feb 2021

Awarded
£26,355
Total cost £26,355

no public description

2019 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Recycling up to 376,000 tonnes of waste per annum that would otherwise have gone to landfill/incineration through a new sustainable multi-life NIR sortable polymer pigment and recycling system

1 Mar 2019 to 31 May 2021

Awarded
£98,680
Total cost £164,467

The vast majority of sorting recycling facilities that handle plastics use Near Infrared (NIR: 750 -- 1700 nm wavelength) spectroscopy for automated detection of polymer type for effective sorting; this technique has been chosen and developed over the past twenty years as being the only cost effective and robust technique for sorting mixed post consumer w...

2015 Vouchers Lead participant

New recycling solution for identifying various polymers in black packaging

1 Aug 2015 to 31 Jan 2016

Awarded
£5,000
Total cost £5,000

We need to establish ‘proof of concept’, techno-economic feasibility & develop these novel ‘invisible’ dyes where an individual dye with unique spectra is used to represent a specific polymer. That dye is then used in a masterbatch to ‘mark’ every component made in that polymer type. This work will be risky & we will require financial support for this res...

Product types

Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies Vouchers