ALUCAST LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-12 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-29
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£2M
+4.3% vs 2024
Net assets
£5M
+9.4% vs 2024
Employees
111
-9.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£683K
-31.8% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £9,939,560 | £7,677,597 | |
| Operating profit | £1,000,839 | £648,744 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,002,297 | £683,245 | |
| Net profit | £871,885 | £499,386 | |
| Cash | £1,753,333 | £1,828,952 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £4,842,185 | £5,209,451 | |
| Net assets | £4,279,117 | £4,682,631 | |
| Equity | £4,279,117 | £4,682,631 | |
| Average employees | 123 | 111 | |
| Wages | £3,275,796 | £3,045,172 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £62,100 | £62,100 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
-22.8%
£9,939,560 £7,677,597
-
Cash
+4.3%
£1,753,333 £1,828,952
-
Net assets
+9.4%
£4,279,117 £4,682,631
-
Employees
-9.8%
123 111
-
Operating profit
-35.2%
£1,000,839 £648,744
-
Profit before tax
-31.8%
£1,002,297 £683,245
-
Wages
-7%
£3,275,796 £3,045,172
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 10.1% | 8.4% | |
| Net margin | 8.8% | 6.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 20.7% | 12.5% | |
| Current ratio | 2.32x | 2.84x | |
| Interest cover | 41.73x | 22.64x |
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
- ALUCAST LIMITED 2003-10-09 → present
- MACBETH 24 LIMITED 2003-08-29 → 2003-10-09
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Friend Partnership Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the group 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
- ALUCAST LIMITED · parent
- Alucast Group Limited 100%
- Macbeth 24 Limited 100%
Significant events
- “During the year the company embarked on a substantial energy saving initiative in a bid to reduce energy consumption and costs, as well as to manage and reduce carbon emissions. This £200,000 investment included substantial sub-metering of energy usage in the factory and the acquisition of several new energy saving melting furnaces.”
- “This green initiative was positively supported by our application and award of the ISO 14001 environmental accreditation in January 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SARTORIUS, Anthony Edouard | Director | 2003-10-03 | Feb 1949 | British |
| SWIFT, John | Director | 2003-10-03 | Feb 1961 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BACKHOUSE, Robert John | Secretary | 2003-10-03 | 2013-06-30 |
| SHAKESPEARES SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2003-08-29 | 2003-10-03 |
| BACKHOUSE, Robert John | Director | 2005-06-16 | 2013-06-30 |
| SHAKESPEARES SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2003-08-29 | 2003-10-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Anthony Edouard Sartorius | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-08-29 | Active |
| Mr John Swift | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-08-29 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 84 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-12-24 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-12-11 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-14 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-13 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-02-13 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-12-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-05-31 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-09-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-09-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-09-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-08-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-09-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-09-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2019-08-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-08-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- 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.