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Shd Composite Materials Ltd

Advanced composite prepreg materials by SHD

Developed with extensive composite industry experience and expertise, we manufacture a wide range of tooling and prepreg materials, suitable for a variety of global market applications and sectors.

CRN
07078299
Founded
2009
Age
16

Overview

Legal name
SHD COMPOSITE MATERIALS LTD
Region
East Midlands
Registered address
UNIT 4 THE RESERVATION
SLEAFORD ENTERPRISE PARK
SLEAFORD
LINCOLNSHIRE
NG34 7BY
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

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Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

6 events
01 Dec
2026

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

30 Sep
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

17 Nov
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

30 Nov
2024

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

18 Nov
2024

Confirmation Statement With No Updates

Confirmation-statement

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Published 18 Nov 2024 12:38

17 Nov
2009

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

8 awards
First funded
2014
Funded years
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2023, 2024
Age at first award
4 years

Projects

2024 Legacy Department of Trade & Industry

Safran Seats - EcoSuite

1 Nov 2024 to 31 Oct 2027

Awarded
£42,452
Total cost £84,905

This project will mature and validate a range of innovative materials and processes to underpin a future wide-body Business Class (BC) seat to be known as "EcoSuite" and to enable substantial enhancements to Wide-body First Class (FC) bespoke seats. The innovations introduced via EcoSuite are aimed at addressing market concerns around weight, environmenta...

2023 Collaborative R&D

Carbon-neutral Agroforestry-derived Resins to Materials for Automotive applications (CARMA)

1 Oct 2023 to 31 Mar 2025

Awarded
£24,100
Total cost £40,166

There is increasing industrial, regulatory and consumer demand for the use of greener alternatives across a range of everyday products, with a particular focus on formulated non-food items. It is also a key strategy for the UK government and manufacturers to use biobased alternatives to petrochemical-derived ingredients across the chemical industry. Bio-r...

2020 BIS-Funded Programmes Lead participant

ATLAS - Advanced Technology Lightweight Automated Structure

1 Nov 2020 to 31 Mar 2021

Awarded
£65,836
Total cost £109,726

This project is a collaboration between SHD Composite Materials Ltd and Sheffield University (AMRC) with Lotus cars as end user. The object is to develop a multi-functional, sustainable composite material meeting the thermal and structural requirements of EV battery boxes whilst fulfilling the requirements for rate of manufacture and cost dictated by Lotu...

2020 BIS-Funded Programmes Lead participant

Ecojet – using sustainable composite materials to reduce the weight of composite aero engine components without compromise to performance or cost.

1 Sep 2020 to 28 Feb 2022

Awarded
£104,094
Total cost £208,187

Using sustainable, high performance resins to produce aero engine components from unidirectional carbon fibre prepreg at the rates required for high volume manufacture.

2017 Feasibility Studies

Flexible Cost Effective Processing of Composite Materials (FlexiComp)

1 Jul 2017 to 31 Dec 2017

Awarded
£15,400
Total cost £22,001

FlexiComp proposes to research the technical and commercial feasibility of a flexible, rapid and cost effective composite processing technology for a multitude of different applications from transport to medical and everything in between. The ultimate aim is to produce a high quality composite part from a range of prepreg composite materials within a thir...

2016 Collaborative R&D

PLAsma Funtionalised CAPsules for Composite Damage Detection (PLAFCAP)

1 Feb 2016 to 31 Jul 2018

Awarded
£43,271
Total cost £72,118

This project aims to develop materials that when incorporated into composite structures, provides those composite materials with the ability to “bruise” or show a visible indication that the material has suffered damage.

2015 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

University of Derby and SHD Composite Materials Limited

1 May 2015 to 31 Jan 2018

Awarded
Unknown

To develop additive materials for development of new composite pre-pregs which will lead to products with novel characteristics and enhanced sustainability

2014 Collaborative R&D

Carbon/biocomposite hybrid vehicle structures for reduced weight, cost and environmental impact (CARBIO)

1 Jan 2014 to 31 Dec 2015

Awarded
£24,289
Total cost £40,482

The CARBIO project will develop automotive structures with reduced weight, cost, environmental impact and improved noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) by the incorporation of novel flax-bioepoxy composites into carbon fibre components. The need to reduce vehicle weight is leading to the adoption of carbon fibre, which is expensive, energy/CO2 intensive, ...

Product types

BIS-Funded Programmes Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies Knowledge Transfer Partnership Legacy Department of Trade & Industry