AMETALCO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-15 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-01
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£1M
+5.7% vs 2023
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£239K
-94.1% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- AMETALCO LIMITED 1991-06-12 → present
- AMAX INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 1963-07-01 → 1991-06-12
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | £44,000 | -£98,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £4,062,000 | £239,000 | |
| Net profit | £4,062,000 | £239,000 | |
| Cash | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,159,000 | £1,225,000 | |
| Net assets | £1,159,000 | £1,225,000 | |
| Equity | £1,159,000 | £1,225,000 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| Wages | — | — |
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | 3.8% | -8.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.03x | 1.04x | |
| Interest cover | 0.07x | -0.17x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis as the Company's parent undertaking, Freeport-McMoRan Inc has confirmed that it will provide such financial support to enable the Company to meet its liabilities for the period to 31 December 2026, being the going concern review period.”
Group structure
- AMETALCO LIMITED · parent
- Climax Molybdenum UK Limited 100%
Significant events
- “In December 2023, the Company paid a dividend of £4,000,000 to its shareholder (Ametalco Inc.) and the directors subsequently identified that part of this distribution was not in accordance with Companies Act 2006. During 2024, the directors took additional steps to rectify the dividend.”
- “On 4 September 2024, Climax Molybdenum UK Limited paid a dividend of £318,059 to Ametalco Limited. This step was required in order to create distributable reserves to facilitate the subsequent steps as set out below (which would allow the Company to rectify the position created by the portion of the dividend that violated Companies Act 2006).”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRWIN MITCHELL SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2013-04-30 | — | — |
| ARMOUR, Alan Weir, Dr | Director | 1997-05-19 | Jul 1948 | British |
| HOOSON, Marion Louise | Director | 2019-11-20 | Aug 1962 | British |
| KENDRICK, Michael Jeffrey | Director | 2015-02-04 | Mar 1960 | American |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FEENEY, Helen Gertrude Mccall | Secretary | — | 1993-12-31 |
| JONES, Gordon Richard | Secretary | — | 1998-04-24 |
| SANKEY-BARKER, Patric John Randle | Secretary | 1998-04-24 | 2006-06-08 |
| STAPLETON, John Nicholas | Secretary | 2006-06-08 | 2013-04-30 |
| CLARK, George William | Director | 1995-02-01 | 1997-05-16 |
| COOKE, Raymond Joseph | Director | — | 1993-12-31 |
| DAINTY, Douglas Horbury | Director | — | 1995-02-01 |
| FEENEY, Helen Gertrude Mccall | Director | — | 1993-12-31 |
| JONES, Gordon Richard | Director | — | 1998-04-24 |
| KRAUSS, Philip David | Director | 1995-09-13 | 1995-10-12 |
| OLIVER, Graham | Director | 1995-10-13 | 1997-05-16 |
| SANKEY-BARKER, Patric John Randle | Director | 1998-04-24 | 2006-05-26 |
| SWEENEY, Anthony | Director | — | 1993-12-31 |
| THORNTON, David Hugh | Director | 2011-10-18 | 2015-02-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freeport-Mcmoran Inc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 147 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2026-01-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-12-01 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-11 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-09-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-23 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-03-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-10-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-01-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2019-12-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-10-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- 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.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
+5.7%
£1,159,000 £1,225,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-322.7%
£44,000 -£98,000
-
Profit before tax
-94.1%
£4,062,000 £239,000
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