Office equipment (except computers)
UK companies organised by the CorpSignals industry, segment, and subsegment taxonomy.
Company snapshot
What this shows: the size and current activity of this classification, plus recent formations, company age, revenue coverage, and trade participation.
All companies
149
Active companies
79
Formed in latest 12 months
7
Median active-company age
9.8 years
Revenue known
1
Importers
25
Exporters
24
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 149 |
| Active companies | 79 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 7 |
| Importers | 25 |
| Exporters | 24 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 1 known, 78 unknown (1.3%).
Company formations
What this shows: monthly incorporations and dissolutions from 1 January 2024, including companies of every current status.
Latest ten months shown in the chart
| Month | Formed | Dissolved |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11 | 1 | 7 |
| 2025-12 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-01 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-02 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-03 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-08 | 0 | 0 |
Window: 2024-01 to 2026-08.
Company status
What this shows: all current Companies House status values; blank and missing values are combined as Unknown.
Top values shown in the chart
| Status | Companies |
|---|---|
| Active | 79 |
| Dissolved | 69 |
| Liquidation | 1 |
Active companies by UK region
What this shows: active companies with a known ITL2 region. The UK map falls back to a bar chart if map data cannot be loaded.
Top values shown in the chart
| ITL2 region | Companies |
|---|---|
| Inner London - East | 8 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 7 |
| Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 5 |
| Greater Manchester | 5 |
| Surrey, East and West Sussex | 5 |
| Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire | 3 |
| Inner London - West | 3 |
| Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire | 3 |
| West Midlands | 3 |
| Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | 2 |
Geography coverage: 78 known, 1 unknown (98.7%).
Revenue ranges
What this shows: active companies grouped into the platform’s ordered estimated-revenue bands.
Top values shown in the chart
| Revenue range | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0-1m | 29 |
| 1m-15m | 14 |
| 15m-54m | 2 |
| 54m+ | 9 |
Revenue-range coverage: 54 known, 25 unknown (68.4%).
Company size and employees
What this shows: active companies by published size category and by reported employee count.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company size | Companies |
|---|---|
| Micro | 18 |
| Small | 24 |
| Medium | 1 |
| Large | 9 |
| Holding | 2 |
| Dormant | 12 |
Company-size coverage: 66 known, 13 unknown (83.5%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 14 |
| 1–9 | 19 |
| 10–49 | 7 |
Employee coverage: 40 known, 39 unknown (50.6%).
Active-company age
What this shows: how long currently active companies have been incorporated.
Top values shown in the chart
| Age band | Companies |
|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 6 |
| 1–3 years | 12 |
| 3–5 years | 9 |
| 5–10 years | 13 |
| 10–20 years | 12 |
| 20+ years | 27 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 79 known, 0 unknown (100.0%).
Classification breakdown
What this shows: active companies across the next taxonomy level; direct assignments are labelled separately. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| 28230 | 79 |
International trade
What this shows: active-company participation in imports and exports, followed by the ten HS2 categories involving the most distinct companies.
Top values shown in the chart
| Trade participation | Companies |
|---|---|
| Importer only | 4 |
| Exporter only | 3 |
| Both | 21 |
| Neither | 51 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 22 | £10,461,604,559 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 21 | £11,442,770,250 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 14 | £1,416,961,422 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 13 | £1,831,279,756 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 48 — Paper and Paperboard Products | 11 | £616,660,984 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 96 — Miscellaneous manufactured goods | 10 | £78,824,868 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 9 | £544,086,962 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 9 | £219,472,681 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 9 | £772,495,846 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 82 — Basic metal tools and utensils | 8 | £65,352,817 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 21 | £4,487,272,557 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 18 | £3,494,367,059 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 87 — Vehicles, parts, and accessories (not for trains or trams) | 12 | £435,067,368 | 2016-05-01 – 2026-02-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 11 | £1,193,843,834 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 11 | £1,021,341,711 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 11 | £243,197,914 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 48 — Paper and Paperboard Products | 10 | £211,600,408 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 83 — Miscellaneous metal items | 10 | £54,228,210 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 49 — Printed materials like books, newspapers, and pictures | 9 | £538,290,672 | 2016-01-01 – 2025-10-01 |
| 40 — Rubber and rubber products | 6 | £54,014,397 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-04-01 |
Business and digital traits
What this shows: active companies identified with selected ownership, business-model, and online-presence traits.
Values shown in the chart with data coverage
| Trait | Companies | Known | Unknown | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family business | 5 | 58 | 21 | 73.4% |
| Holding company | 0 | 58 | 21 | 73.4% |
| Solo founder | 32 | 58 | 21 | 73.4% |
| Ecommerce | 6 | 21 | 58 | 26.6% |
| Website | 24 | 25 | 54 | 31.6% |
| 25 | 25 | 54 | 31.6% |
Leading active companies
What this shows: the ten active companies with the highest non-missing revenue, with company number used as the deterministic tie-breaker.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company | Revenue |
|---|---|
| Smtpowerplant Ltd | £0 |
Revenue coverage: 1 known, 78 unknown (1.3%).
Related classifications
What this shows: sibling classifications ranked by distinct active companies, excluding the current node. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Other special purpose machinery n.e.c. | 3,376 |
| Other n.e.c. | 1,272 |
| Lifting equipment | 916 |
| Other machine tools | 612 |
| Industrial cooling and ventilation | 589 |
| Pumps | 466 |
| Agricultural and forestry machinery (not tractors) | 448 |
| Engines & turbines | 446 |
| Machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing | 428 |
| Taps & valves | 374 |
| Bearings, gears, drivers | 343 |
| Fluid power equipment | 264 |
| Plastics and rubber machinery | 198 |
| Metal forming machinery | 186 |
| Machinery for textile, apparel and leather production | 168 |
| Ovens, furnaces, burners | 165 |
| Mining equipment | 128 |
| Compressors | 106 |
| Machinery for paper and paperboard production | 89 |
| Power tools | 88 |
| Other | 242 |
SIC classification
SIC 28230 — Manufacture of office machinery and equipment (except computers and peripheral equipment)
Includes
manufacture of calculating machines, manufacture of adding machines, cash registers, manufacture of calculators, electronic or not, manufacture of postage meters, mail handling machines (envelope stuffing, sealing and addressing machinery; opening, sorting, scanning), collating machinery, manufacture of typewriters, manufacture of stenography machines, manufacture of office-type binding equipment (i.e. plastic or tape binding), manufacture of cheque writing machines, manufacture of coin counting and coin wrapping machinery, manufacture of pencil sharpeners, manufacture of staplers and staple removers, manufacture of voting machines, manufacture of tape dispensers, manufacture of hole punches, manufacture of cash registers, mechanically operated, manufacture of photocopy machines, manufacture of toner cartridges, manufacture of blackboards; white boards and marker boards, manufacture of dictating machines
Excludes
manufacture of computers and peripheral equipment, see ##26.20