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CAPILLARY FILM TECHNOLOGY LTD
Region
South East England
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Capillary Film Technology Ltd
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CFT has developed FluorEx, a low-cost microfluidic fluoropolymer film that possesses unique optical transparency. The parallel array of 10 x 200 micron capillaries that allow rapid fully quantitative immunoassays to be incorporated in existing or emergent diagnostic technologies for use in the point of care clinical diagnostics market. CFT has exclusive know-how and IP. CFTs FluorEx technology is available for licensing
CRN
08139448
Founded
2012
Age
13
Corporate ownership
Updated 07 Jul 2026 09:49
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Capillary Film Technology Ltd
CRN 08139448
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Capillary Films Technology Holdings Limited
CRN 12150436
Latest accounts
Financial period: 1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2024
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Turnover
Unknown
Profit / Loss
Unknown
Employees
4
Company events
Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.
1 event
11 Jul
2012
Incorporated
InceptionCompany registered at Companies House
Spinout profile
3 entries
Company description
Capillary Film Technology Ltd (CFT) is a technology and product development company for life sciences and clinical diagnostics. CFT is able to bring a disruptive manufacturing technique for the production of low-cost multiplex microfluidic material. Using exclusive know-how and IP, we are currently developing the next generation of lateral flow technology that allows rapid, fully quantitative multiplex immunoassays for field and bed-side/point-of-care use.
Project impact
Main activities to date are technology development, and presentation to industrial and clinical users of diagnostic technology including at international trade fairs and through academic health science network events. In 2014, CFT secured SBRI Healthcare funding, which resulted in employment of 2 full time research scientists. IN 2015, CFT secured a further £1M SBRI Healthcare funding, which resulted in employment of 3 full time research scientists, one 0.6 FTE business development employee, and significant subcontracted research in the NIHR DEC london and product development to EG Technology Ltd. In addition, CFT has secured significant private investment (commercially confidential sum). CFT also licenses IP including IP partially derived from an EPSRC-funded project.
Capillary Film Technology
2012
Capillary Film Technology
2012
Capillary Film Technology Ltd
2012
Public funding
2 awards
First funded
2018
Funded years
2018, 2020
Age at first award
6 years
Projects
2020
Knowledge Transfer Network
Lead participant
Tiny Test Tubes to Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance in Dairy Farming in India
1 May 2020 to 31 Oct 2020
Awarded
£12,243
Total cost £17,490
Vision Our long-term goal is to tackle the challenge of rising AMR levels that leads to reduced milk production through hard-to-treat mastitis in dairy cattle (cutting family income), and untreatable human infections. Although India is the world's largest milk producing nation, most dairy farms are not industrialised- instead thousands of small farms prov...
2018
Collaborative R&D
Point-of-care for stroke subtype diagnosis to enable rapid treatment
1 Dec 2018 to 28 Feb 2021
Awarded
£8,998
Total cost £12,869
"POCKiT diagnostics is a UK company focused on the research and development of point-of-care diagnostic devices. Our main target is to develop a device for diagnosis of brain stroke. Stroke is the third leading cause of death and the first cause of physical disability and dementia worldwide. In stroke, the brain is damaged by restricted blood flow to the ...
Product types
Collaborative R&D
Knowledge Transfer Network