Smith+Nephew
No description from the company. The catalog line you may see elsewhere is generated by us from the category and location, not a statement by the company.
- Type
- Not established by any record (our catalog import lists it as manufacturer; that is not evidence of the role)
- Role
- Manufacturer (manufacturing registered as the company's activity in the state register; production site not independently confirmed); the register records manufacturing as the company's declared activity (20590: Manufacture of other chemical products n.e.c.), a declaration to the register, not an observation of a working plant
- Location
- Watford, United Kingdom
- Founded
- Not established: our records disagree. 1856 in the founding-year field of our catalogue record; 1937 in the state register (date of the current legal entity).
- Current legal entity registered
- 1937-02-17 (state register record of the current legal entity)
- Website
- smith-nephew.com
- Categories
- चिकित्सा एवं स्वास्थ्य देखभाल आपूर्तियाँ, औद्योगिक आपूर्ति
- Markets
- यूनाइटेड किंगडम, संयुक्त राज्य, जर्मनी, जापान
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 7 official records from 6 official sources are on file. 4 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. Nothing here confirms manufacturing, ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- Licensed to sponsor foreign workers (record type: licensed-sponsor) [official record; status green] The interior ministry vetted this employer and licensed it to hire from abroad; a shell company does not hold such a licence. checked 2026-08-12. UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors (workers)
- EAEU product declaration on record, company's role not established (record type: eaeu-product-declaration-party; this record does not by itself establish manufacturing) [official record; status green] An official EAEU register holds a declaration for specific goods that names this company; the record we hold does not say in which role (manufacturer, applicant or representative). It shows those products may be sold on the EAEU market, not a general quality mark. Paste the document number into the register search to see the record. checked 2026-08-16. EAEU unified register of certificates and declarations
- Website domain registered (record type: domain-registered) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows how long this web address has been registered. That is the age of the domain, not of the company: a domain can change owners. checked 2026-09-04. Domain registry record
- No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. checked 2026-09-04. OpenSanctions
- Business email on the company's own domain (record type: corporate-mail-on-domain) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows the domain runs its own email rather than a free mailbox. It describes the domain, not who owns it. checked 2026-09-04. Mail server of the company domain
- Registered with the U.S. FDA (active, renewed for the current year) (record type: fda-registered) [official record; status green] Registered with the US food and drug regulator, renewed for the current year. checked 2026-09-04. FDA
- No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. checked 2026-09-04. OpenSanctions
- registry-activity (record type: registry-activity) [official record; status green] Line of business as recorded in the state register: 20590 - Manufacture of other chemical products n.e.c.. Shows what the state itself says the company does, which you can compare with what it promises you. effective since 1937-02-17. Companies House free company data product (UK)
- On the company register (record type: registered-since) [official record; status green] On the company register since 1937-02-17. Shows how long the company has been on the state register, which is hard to fake and easy to check. effective since 1937-02-17. Companies House free company data product (UK)
- Active legal entity ID (LEI) (record type: lei-active) [official record; status green] A global identifier used in finance; an active one is renewed yearly. checked 2026-09-07. GLEIF global LEI register (golden copy)
- Registry ID checks out with the state register (record type: registry-id-verified) [official record; status green] Helps confirm the company on this page is the same legal entity as in the register. checked 2026-09-10. GLEIF Global LEI record
Claimed certifications, not confirmed by us
- ISO 13485, Medical Devices Quality IAF CertSearch
- CE Marking EU NANDO (notified bodies)
Import rules for these goods
Product-specific import rules not established for the catalog category चिकित्सा एवं स्वास्थ्य देखभाल आपूर्तियाँ: neither the company's own description nor an official activity code shows that its own goods are of this kind. A catalog category alone is our classification, not proof of what the company makes or sells.
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