KEY PLANT WELDERENTALS (UK) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last filed for 2023-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-08 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-25
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£271K
+731,510.8% vs 2022
Net assets
£4M
-64.6% vs 2022
Employees
23
+27.8% vs 2022
Profit before tax
-£471K
+63% vs 2022
Name history
Renamed 3 times since incorporation — the current trading name was adopted 2024-12-24
- KEY PLANT WELDERENTALS (UK) LIMITED 2024-12-24 → present
- RED-D-ARC LIMITED 2013-10-22 → 2024-12-24
- A & N MANAGEMENT LIMITED 1987-07-02 → 2013-10-22
- FRISKE LIMITED 1987-03-31 → 1987-07-02
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2023-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £3,591,015 | £3,538,284 | |
| Operating profit | -£1,819,916 | -£1,054,302 | |
| Profit before tax | -£1,270,437 | -£470,584 | |
| Net profit | -£598,953 | -£306,527 | |
| Cash | £37 | £270,696 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £13,423,354 | £5,065,442 | |
| Net assets | £12,369,045 | £4,377,373 | |
| Equity | £12,369,045 | £4,377,373 | |
| Average employees | 18 | 23 | |
| Wages | £855,636 | £946,134 |
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 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -50.7% | -29.8% | |
| Net margin | -16.7% | -8.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | -13.6% | -20.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 12.8% | 24.1% | |
| Current ratio | 12.90x | 4.14x | |
| Interest cover | -3221.09x | -1069.27x |
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
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Consequently, the directors are confident that the company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “On 29 January 2024, ownership of the company changed from L'Air Liquide S.A. to Key Plant Automation Limited at Bode Business Park, Ball Haye Green, Leek. The existing directors resigned and new directors were appointed (see directors report). Amounts owed to/from the Air Liquide and sister Red-D-Arc company in the United States were settled as part of the change in ownership.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIES, Kevin | Director | 2024-01-29 | Oct 1961 | British |
| DAVIES, Phillipa Jane | Director | 2024-01-29 | Oct 1965 | British |
| GRIGG, Jonathan Ian | Director | 2024-01-29 | Oct 1972 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRAUN, Todd Russell | Secretary | 2008-04-04 | 2009-02-09 |
| CUTLER, Jonathan Mark | Secretary | — | 1998-09-30 |
| CUTLER, Jonathon | Secretary | 2004-01-20 | 2008-04-04 |
| DAILEY, Michael | Secretary | 2021-06-17 | 2024-11-29 |
| FOSTER, Mark | Secretary | 1998-10-01 | 2004-01-20 |
| LIN, Lola | Secretary | 2016-07-01 | 2021-06-17 |
| YOUNG JR, Robert, Director | Secretary | 2009-02-09 | 2016-07-01 |
| BERGERET, Frederic | Director | 2021-07-31 | 2024-01-29 |
| DIBBO, Alaster Gordon | Director | — | 2008-04-04 |
| DROIN, Nicolas | Director | 2018-06-30 | 2021-07-31 |
| HOLLOWAY, Joseph | Director | 2021-08-02 | 2024-01-29 |
| HOLLOWAY, Joseph Warren | Director | 2010-09-01 | 2012-08-24 |
| MCCRORIE, Ross Alfred | Director | 2012-08-24 | 2021-08-02 |
| SMYTH, Thomas M | Director | 2008-04-04 | 2018-06-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Key Plant Welderentals Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 149 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-12-24 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-25 | GUARANTEE2 | other | Legacy | |
| 2026-04-25 | AGREEMENT2 | other | Legacy | |
| 2026-03-30 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2025-11-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-11-11 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-26 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous extended | |
| 2025-04-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-24 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2024-12-02 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2024-11-29 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-18 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-12-18 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-12-18 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- 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
FY2022 → FY2023 · period ending 2023-12-31 vs 2022-12-31
-
Turnover
-1.5%
£3,591,015 £3,538,284
-
Cash
+731,510.8%
£37 £270,696
-
Net assets
-64.6%
£12,369,045 £4,377,373
-
Employees
+27.8%
18 23
-
Operating profit
+42.1%
-£1,819,916 -£1,054,302
-
Profit before tax
+63%
-£1,270,437 -£470,584
-
Wages
+10.6%
£855,636 £946,134
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