CAPITAL REFRACTORIES LIMITED
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Cash
£19m
+702.3% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
£9.7m
-12.8% lowest in 3 filed years
Employees
58
-3.3% lowest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£24m
+768.4% highest in 3 filed years
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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2 PSCs ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-11-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-11-30 | 2024-11-30 | 2025-11-30 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £47,353,674 | £15,627,322 | £12,428,063 | -20.5% | |
| Operating profit | £4,284,281 | £595,482 | -£500,278 | -184% | |
| Profit before tax | £4,296,982 | £2,803,215 | £24,344,351 | +768.4% | |
| Net profit | £3,100,376 | £2,659,861 | £24,382,205 | +816.7% | |
| Cash | £8,250,940 | £2,424,991 | £19,456,758 | +702.3% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £27,638,693 | £11,327,625 | £9,884,670 | -12.7% | |
| Net assets | £26,029,973 | £11,088,725 | £9,664,670 | -12.8% | |
| Equity | £26,029,973 | £11,088,725 | £9,664,670 | -12.8% | |
| Average employees | 266 | 60 | 58 | -3.3% | |
| Wages | £8,234,253 | £2,854,786 | £2,848,767 | -0.2% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £450,106 | £366,289 | £368,793 | +0.7% | |
| Directors' pension contributions | £8,000 | £10,000 | £10,000 | 0% | |
| Highest paid director | £264,442 | £275,376 | £276,558 | +0.4% |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-11-30 | 2024-11-30 | 2025-11-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 9.0% | 3.8% | -4.0% | |
| Net margin | 6.5% | 17.0% | 196.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 15.5% | 5.3% | -5.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 22.9% | 16.3% | 69.1% | |
| Current ratio | 4.15x | 5.70x | 1.24x | |
| Interest cover | — | 95.98x | — |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CAPITAL REFRACTORIES LIMITED 1982-02-11 → present
- MANSOME LIMITED 1973-03-13 → 1982-02-11
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Sumer Auditco Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- CAPITAL REFRACTORIES LIMITED · parent
- Capital Refractories (Shanghai) Technology Ltd 100%
- Capital Refractories Inc. 100%
- Capital Refractories S.r.o 100%
- Caprefindia Private Limited 100%
- PT Caprefindo 100%
- PT Caprefindo Manufacturing 100%
Significant events
- “On the 31 August 2025 the company's shareholding in Capital Injection Ceramics Limited (CIC) was acquired by Siemens Energy Limited.”
- “On the 30 September 2025 the group underwent a restructure, as a result Capital Refractories Holdings Limited became the ultimate parent company of the group and the immediate parent company of Capital Refractorics Limited.”
- “As part of the disposal of its subsidiary, Capital Injection Ceramics Limited, the company is entitled to receive contingent consideration of up to £4.5 million.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NEWSOME, Deirdre Helen | Secretary | — | — | British |
| NEWSOME, James Philip Russell | Director | 2001-01-26 | Jan 1969 | British |
| STUART-HARRIS, Margot Lynne | Director | — | Nov 1944 | British |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWSOME, David Russel | Director | — | 2009-09-19 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Refractories Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2025-09-30 | Active |
| Mr James Philip Russell Newsome | Individual | Shares 50–75% (as trust), Voting 50–75% (as trust), Appoints directors (as trust), Significant influence (as trust) | 2016-04-15 | Ceased 2025-09-30 |
| Mrs Margot Lynne Stuart-Harris | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-15 | Ceased 2025-09-30 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 109 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-10-09 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-10-09 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-03-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-10-28 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-10-28 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2025-10-09 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-10-09 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-10-06 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-06 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-06 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-08-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-21 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-21 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-07-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-02-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-02-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-02-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-05-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.