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Next accounts due

2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-28

Confirmation statement due

2027-03-27 (in 10mo)

Last made up 2026-03-13

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£996K

-47.8% vs 2023

Net assets

£2M

-6.8% vs 2023

Employees

52

+8.3% vs 2023

Profit before tax

£907K

-8.8% vs 2023

Name history

Renamed 2 times since incorporation

  1. KADANT PAAL LIMITED 2018-10-30 → present
  2. DICOM LIMITED 2004-01-08 → 2018-10-30
  3. PAAL UK LIMITED 2000-03-01 → 2004-01-08

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-28

Metric Trend 2023-12-312024-12-28
Turnover £9,991,736£10,899,377
Operating profit £984,171£873,544
Profit before tax £994,164£907,161
Net profit £744,339£822,954
Cash £1,909,297£995,761
Total assets less current liabilities £2,808,860£2,687,064
Net assets £2,597,021£2,419,975
Equity £2,597,021£2,419,975
Average employees 4852
Wages £2,356,743£2,479,233

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 2023-12-312024-12-28
Operating margin 9.8%8.0%
Net margin 7.4%7.6%
Return on capital employed 35.0%32.5%
Current ratio 2.37x2.71x

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)
Abridged
Yes — abridged accounts (limited disclosure)
Auditor
PKF Smith Cooper Audit Limited
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Director's use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

  1. KADANT PAAL LIMITED · parent
    1. J & H Rentals Limited · UK · a company offering customers rental contracts of three or five years for the equipment Kadant Paal Limited manufactures. It has been closed to new business since 2003.

Significant events

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

2 active · 18 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
JONES, Emma Jane Secretary 2018-03-14
HELEY, Stuart Craig Director 2003-07-17 Sep 1964 British
Show 18 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
HIBBERT, Diane Secretary 2003-05-30 2003-09-26
LENTON, Stephen William Secretary 2003-09-26 2018-03-14
OFFERGELT, Richard Franz Josef Maria Wilhelm Secretary 2002-10-25 2003-04-21
PAPE, Florian Secretary 2000-03-01 2002-12-31
SECRETARIAL APPOINTMENTS LIMITED Corporate Nominee Secretary 2000-03-01 2000-03-01
FROST, James Anthony Director 2004-04-15 2008-11-30
GERLACH, Rainer Director 2000-03-01 2004-04-16
HALPER, Manfred Anton Director 2004-10-19 2006-01-30
HORNUNG, Franzotto Director 2006-01-30 2018-01-01
LENTON, Stephen William Director 2012-06-26 2022-06-17
MAYO, Neil Robert Director 2003-03-20 2003-07-16
MILLER, John Anthony Director 2008-12-01 2012-01-26
MILLER, John Anthony Director 2000-03-01 2004-11-02
OFFERGELT, Richard Franz Josef Maria Wilhelm Director 2002-10-25 2003-04-21
PAPE, Florian Director 2000-03-01 2002-10-25
SANZEY, Jean Patrick Georges Director 2003-07-17 2004-10-19
SHAW, Michael Graham Director 2018-01-01 2020-11-26
CORPORATE APPOINTMENTS LIMITED Corporate Nominee Director 2000-03-01 2000-03-01

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Kadant Inc. Corporate entity Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors 2016-04-06 Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 116 total filings

Date Type Category Description
2026-03-17 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2025-06-11 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2025-03-13 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-07-12 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-03-13 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-03-04 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2023-10-03 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2023-03-02 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-09-27 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2022-06-21 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2022-03-04 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2021-07-05 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2021-03-02 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2020-12-23 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2020-11-19 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2020-06-04 PSC02 persons-with-significant-control Notification of a person with significant control PDF
2020-06-04 PSC09 persons-with-significant-control Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement PDF
2020-03-03 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2019-07-17 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2019-04-29 AD03 address Move registers to sail company with new address PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
2

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
0

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 2024-12-28 vs 2023-12-31

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

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