UK New Manufacturing Company Finder

Find recently incorporated UK manufacturing legal entities in official Companies House monthly bulk data, filtered by SIC 2007 manufacturing activity, registered-office locality, incorporation date and company status.

Best for: UK accountancy and insurance firms, industrial distributors, manufacturing equipment suppliers, and B2B research teams seeking auditable company-register leads.

Source: Companies House Free Company Data Product (free monthly public CSV ZIP). Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Companies House.

What it actually does

1. Discovers the most recent complete set of official Companies House monthly ZIP files (currently seven parts) via the source landing page. No signup, API key or paid account.
2. Downloads every part. A missing or corrupt part aborts the run before any company is billed.
3. Streams CSV in constant-size batches, with strict date, company status, registered-office location and manufacturing SIC filters.
4. Sorts by most recent official incorporation date and returns up to your chosen limit.
5. Excludes company numbers already delivered to this Actor's same Apify user for the same snapshot month. One never-before-delivered matching company = one billable event.

The company must have at least one official Companies House condensed SIC 2007, Section C code (manufacturing). You can enter complete five-digit codes (25990, 28110) or prefixes (25, 10) to target a whole sub-sector. Invalid or non-manufacturing codes are rejected with a clear error. An empty SIC list searches all Section C activities.

Important: A newly incorporated company is not evidence of a newly trading company, an active factory, a buyer, an operating site, or purchasing intent. The data contains registered-office locations, not necessarily operating or production premises. The Actor does not infer business maturity, buy-readiness or contact information.

How recent is the data?

This is a monthly snapshot, not a live alert. Companies House states that the CSV contains records compiled through the end of the preceding calendar month and usually appears within five working days of month end. The file date (for example 2026-10-01) and coverage-through date (2026-09-30) are recorded separately. Status, SIC codes and address are as present in that snapshot and can subsequently change.

The source describes its files as a snapshot of "live companies"; do not assume it is a complete historic archive of dissolved companies.

Quick start

Example input:

{
  "sicCodes": ["25990", "28110"],
  "region": "England",
  "regionField": "COUNTRY",
  "incorporatedFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "incorporatedTo": "2026-09-30",
  "companyStatuses": ["Active"],
  "maxResults": 100
}

All fields are optional. Without a date range the Actor uses the preceding calendar month relative to the newest available snapshot, not the machine clock. Without SIC codes ([]), it includes all manufacturing categories. The default status is Active.

Region semantics

Use the region string with regionField:

regionField	What is checked
COUNTRY	Exact RegAddress.Country value (e.g. ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES, UNITED KINGDOM)
COUNTY	Exact RegAddress.County as filed (may be blank)
POST_TOWN	Exact RegAddress.PostTown (e.g. LEEDS)
POSTCODE_PREFIX	Case-insensitive starts-with registered postcode (e.g. LS1, SW)
AUTO	Exact Country / County / PostTown or postcode prefix match

This is not standardised statistical-region/ITL filtering or geocoding. For example, London in POST_TOWN means registered post town London, not necessarily every legal entity in Greater London. A row with UNITED KINGDOM as country is not inferred to be in England. Neither full address nor full postcode is returned.

Dataset example

The following company number, legal name, SIC and date were verified in the official October 2026 snapshot part 1. Other fields are shown only when present in the CSV.

{
  "companyNumber": "17479473",
  "legalName": "AVESTRIUM SYSTEMS LIMITED",
  "sicCodes": ["25990"],
  "sicDescriptions": {"25990": "Manufacture of other fabricated metal products n.e.c."},
  "matchedManufacturingSicCodes": ["25990"],
  "registeredOfficeCountry": "ENGLAND",
  "companyStatus": "Active",
  "incorporationDate": "2026-09-24",
  "registrationDate": null,
  "sourceFileDate": "2026-10-01",
  "snapshotCoverageThrough": "2026-09-30",
  "companyUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17479473",
  "sourceAttribution": "Contains public register information from Companies House"
}

The sicDescriptions object includes the lookup for all recorded SICs, while matchedManufacturingSicCodes indicates which ones match your manufacturing filters. If a non-manufacturing SIC appears alongside a matching manufacturing SIC, it remains in sicCodes for transparency.

The SUMMARY key-value record contains source snapshot date, coverage, ZIP count, rows scanned, matching companies, previously delivered numbers, delivered results and charged event count.

Why is registrationDate null?

The official free monthly CSV explicitly contains IncorporationDate, but does not provide a separately defined registration timestamp. For accuracy, registrationDate is always null, not falsely copied from incorporation date. sourceFileDate documents the date of the bulk file, not the date a particular company was registered.

Pricing and duplicate handling

Live Store billing: $0.01 USD for each newly delivered matching company using the new-manufacturing-company pay-per-event charge. There are no additional charged startup, ZIP, scanned-row, empty-result or unmatched-record events. The event price is managed in Apify monetization (not hardcoded in the Actor). The publisher bears underlying compute costs under the event-only pricing configuration.

• A company number already delivered to the same Apify user for the same official snapshot month is skipped on later runs of this Actor, even when search filters change. The second identical run eventually returns zero duplicates and creates zero new-company events once all matching records are exhausted. If your first run was cut off by maxResults, the next run can deliver and bill the next set of never-before-delivered matching company numbers. Fully exhausted identical queries are cached per snapshot month and complete without redownloading all ZIPs.
• A new official snapshot month starts a new duplicate scope. Re-requesting older incorporation dates in another month can result in the same company being charged again if it remains in the snapshot and matches.
• The duplicate state lives in a persistent named Apify key-value store under that user's Actor permissions, not on our server. Apify storage retention, user deletion of that state, or two simultaneously running jobs can affect this guarantee. Do not run overlapping jobs when you require strict duplicate prevention. Remote storage does not provide a transaction lock.
• When users reach their Apify maximum event budget, the Actor stops generating further charged results. Source download and cloud computation/storage costs may still arise, depending on the Actor's final Store pricing configuration.
• maxResults applies after past deliveries are excluded; sorting prioritises the newest incorporation date and is deterministic.

For predictability, try maxResults: 20 on your first run. The entire official snapshot must still be scanned before any record is delivered.

Privacy, compliance, accuracy

• Never gathers directors, shareholders, PSCs, officers, personal emails, personal telephone numbers, or contact leads. Only legal entity names, IDs, official SIC, dates, status and general registered-office geography are output.
• Does not fetch arbitrary private resources or log into Companies House. It does not use the protected Companies House API.
• A public registered office can sometimes be a residential address. The Actor intentionally omits full street addresses, contact data and inward postcode.
• Company status and SIC descriptions reflect how information was filed or how SIC is classified. Companies House does not verify commercial intent.
• Validate all material business decisions against the linked Companies House public record.
• The source can include information subject to third-party rights; the official materials do not waive those rights. Review your applicable UK GDPR, commercial marketing, copyright and other obligations.

Sources and attribution

Contains public register information from Companies House.

• Official data products guidance
• Official bulk download
• Data fields PDF
• Official condensed SIC list
• Public task, Crown copyright and third-party rights
• Open Government Licence v3.0

Material produced by Companies House is usually subject to Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise indicated. Public-register data is made available for re-use under Companies House's statutory approvals, with third-party rights and other legal obligations remaining the user's responsibility. We give clear attribution in each result and this README, omit Crown insignia, and do not present the service as official.

Runtime and local development

Python 3.12, Apify Python SDK and requests. No external database, proxy, paid data access or API token in the source.

cd /opt/APIFY/API28
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt pytest jsonschema
.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q tests
# Apify Cloud: build/push with Apify CLI using authorized login.

The official ZIPs may total 470 MB+ compressed per full run, so plan platform storage, network and run timeout accordingly. The app downloads ZIP files to a temporary directory, scans them without extracting to disk, then deletes them. A new month can change number/size of ZIPs. The service will fail clearly rather than report incomplete results when any officially published part is unavailable.

The project is isolated in /opt/APIFY/API28. The source-maintenance script scripts/fetch_sic.py regenerates a checked, bundled Companies House SIC classification; it is not called on customer runs. Review licence and schema when refreshing classification editions (ONS UK SIC 2026 exists, but Companies House continues publishing its specific condensed code list).

No legal, tax or insurance advice is provided.