PQ SILICAS UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-30 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-16
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£14M
+27.8% vs 2023
Net assets
£76M
0% vs 2023
Employees
233
-3.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£159K
+102.4% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £65,730,000 | £67,400,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£6,286,000 | -£142,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£6,658,000 | £159,000 | |
| Net profit | -£5,254,000 | £31,000 | |
| Cash | £10,960,000 | £14,008,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £76,348,000 | £76,313,000 | |
| Net assets | £75,895,000 | £75,926,000 | |
| Equity | £75,895,000 | £75,926,000 | |
| Average employees | 242 | 233 | |
| Wages | £14,735,000 | £13,870,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -9.6% | -0.2% | |
| Net margin | -8.0% | 0.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | -8.2% | -0.2% | |
| Current ratio | 2.37x | 2.83x | |
| Interest cover | -12.30x | -20.29x |
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
“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
- PQ SILICAS UK LIMITED · parent
- PQ Financial UK Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “Annual sales increased due to a recovery of global demand for surface coatings products.”
- “The directors consider that the financial position at the end of the year was satisfactory, with the results showing a positive development compared to the prior year.”
- “In 2024, no RIDDOR reportable injuries occurred. The last reportable injury on site was in November 2022.”
- “During the year, there were no permit breaches, fines, or other enforcement actions from the environmental or health & safety regulator.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COATES, Paul Ian | Director | 2024-04-15 | Nov 1978 | British |
| MCCONVILLE, Melanie Nicola | Director | 2024-02-01 | Oct 1970 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOSCINSKI, Joseph Steven | Secretary | 2019-06-13 | 2021-08-02 |
| SICHKO, William James | Secretary | 2007-12-20 | 2019-06-13 |
| BENINATI, Albert Fiore | Director | 2021-08-02 | 2024-01-31 |
| DE PAIVA BEZERRA, Jose Vicente | Director | 2019-06-13 | 2024-04-15 |
| GOEDE, Erwin Johan | Director | 2015-08-01 | 2016-06-01 |
| KOSCINSKI, Joseph Steven | Director | 2016-02-01 | 2021-08-02 |
| MCILROY, Alan Frederick | Director | 2007-12-20 | 2015-08-01 |
| OOSTVEEN, Nicolaas Theodorus | Director | 2015-08-01 | 2021-03-31 |
| RANDOLPH, Scott Howard | Director | 2016-06-01 | 2019-06-13 |
| SICHKO, William James | Director | 2007-12-20 | 2019-06-13 |
| WAALKENS, Harm Peter | Director | 2019-06-13 | 2024-01-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 87 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2021-12-14 MA Memorandum articles
- 2021-12-14 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-01-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-12-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-09-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-12-14 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2021-12-14 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2021-12-07 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2021-11-25 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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
+2.5%
£65,730,000 £67,400,000
-
Cash
+27.8%
£10,960,000 £14,008,000
-
Net assets
0%
£75,895,000 £75,926,000
-
Employees
-3.7%
242 233
-
Operating profit
+97.7%
-£6,286,000 -£142,000
-
Profit before tax
+102.4%
-£6,658,000 £159,000
-
Wages
-5.9%
£14,735,000 £13,870,000
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