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Dragonfly Insulation Ltd

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Dragonfly Insulation Ltd is a UK company with status active founded in 2019 based in North East England.

CRN
12026868
Founded
2019
Age
7

Overview

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Legal name
DRAGONFLY INSULATION LTD
Region
North East England
Registered address
5 DUKESWAY
PRUDHOE IND EST
PRUDHOE
NORTHUMBERLAND
UNITED KINGDOM
NE42 6PQ
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

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Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

6 events
13 Jun
2027

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

30 Sep
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

30 May
2026

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Confirmation-statement

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Published 30 May 2026 13:35

30 May
2026

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Dec
2024

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

31 May
2019

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Spinout profile

4 entries

Company description

Dragonfly Insulation develops and commercialises aerogels for use in insulation.

Prof Lidija Siller and Dr Xiao Han have Spin out company from Newcastle University. Purpose of company is to manufacture aerogels, the most porous materials and most insulating material known to man. Silica aerogels are also nonflammable and acoustic insulators. Aim of company is to produce powders, granules and panels of aerogels that can be used in various applications (such as rendering, plastering, concrete, paint etc..). For the past 7 years Prof Siller and Dr Han developed new method of processing aerogels, by ambient pressure drying method with inorganic water based solvents that cut 10 fold production of aerogels.

Project impact

The company aims to manufacture in next 18 months, first a one ton quantity of aerogels in order to obtain certification so that company can sell in UK and abroad.

Dragonfly Insulation
2019
Dragonfly Insulation
2019
Dragonfly Insulation
2019
DRAGONFLY INSULATION LTD
2019

Public funding

3 awards
First funded
2021
Funded years
2021, 2024, 2025
Age at first award
1 years

Projects

2025 Innovation Loans Lead participant

Environmentally Sustainable Silica Aerogel Materials (ESSAM)

3 Jun 2025 to 3 Jun 2027

Awarded
£670,000
Total cost £696,433

Dragonfly is an advanced materials manufacturer specialising in the development and production of silica aerogels. We are an early-stage spin-out company from Newcastle University and hold patented technology that revolutionises the manufacturing process of silica aerogels. Dragonfly is currently the sole manufacturer of silica aerogels in the UK. This pr...

2024 Investment Accelerator Lead participant

Modularised Scalable Aerogel Manufacture (MoSAM)

1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2025

Awarded
£299,615
Total cost £428,022

Dragonfly Insulation Ltd (DF) is a UK-based advanced material manufacturing company that specialises in aerogel technologies. This project builds on the successful IUK ICURe project which has taken DF's silica aerogel manufacturing process from laboratory to small scale production. Silica aerogel is an extremely light, highly thermally efficient insulatio...

2021 Study Lead participant

Dragonfly Insulation: Manufacturing of Aerogels

1 Feb 2021 to 31 Jan 2023

Awarded
£209,861
Total cost £299,801

Aerogels are the most porous and thermally efficient materials known to man. They are used in space exploration including the capture of high-speed star-dust, cryogenic insulation for space launch vehicles and thermal insulation for Mars rovers. With their outstanding insulation properties, aerogels have great potential to be commercialised, but until now...

Product types

Innovation Loans Investment Accelerator Study