HEIQ LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-28 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-14
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£5M
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£17M
Equity attributable
Employees
194
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£10M
Period ending 2024-12-31
Name history
Renamed 3 times since incorporation — the current trading name was adopted 2024-12-02
- HEIQ LIMITED 2024-12-02 → present
- HEIQ PLC 2020-12-04 → 2024-12-02
- AUCTUS GROWTH PLC 2014-07-24 → 2020-12-04
- AUCTUS GROWTH LIMITED 2014-05-14 → 2014-07-24
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £46,195,701 | £15,677,539 | |
| Operating profit | -£14,071,164 | -£9,156,412 | |
| Profit before tax | -£15,139,362 | -£9,812,454 | |
| Net profit | -£15,817,643 | -£9,965,901 | |
| Cash | £3,726,464 | £4,753,150 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £30,063,010 | £27,094,885 | |
| Net assets | £18,849,518 | £17,306,153 | |
| Equity | £18,849,518 | £17,306,153 | |
| Average employees | 194 | 194 | |
| Wages | £15,769,459 | £5,892,513 |
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 | 2024-06-30 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -30.5% | -58.4% | |
| Net margin | -34.2% | -63.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | -46.8% | -33.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 59.4% | 62.9% | |
| Current ratio | 1.02x | 1.06x | |
| Interest cover | -11.55x | -13.44x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- RPG Crouch Chapman
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the continuity of normal business activity and the realization of the assets and the settlement of liabilities in the normal course of business.”
Group structure
- HEIQ LIMITED · parent
- HeiQ Materials AG 100%
- HeiQ ChemTex Inc. 100%
- HeiQ Pty Ltd 100%
- HeiQ GrapheneX AG 100%
- HeiQ Company Limited 100%
- HX Company Limited 66.7%
- HeiQ Iberia Unipessoal Lda 100%
- Chrisal NV 100%
- HeiQ RAS AG 100%
- HeiQ Xpectra GmbH 100%
- HeiQ (China) Material Tech LTD 100%
- Life Material Technologies Limited 100%
- Life Natural Limited 100%
- LMT Holding Limited 96.45%
- Life Material Technologies Limited 99.995%
- HeiQ AeoniQ GmbH 100%
- Chem-Tex Laboratories Inc. 100%
- Beijing HeiQ Material Tech Co., Ltd. 100%
- HeiQ AeoniQ Holding AG 92%
- Tarn-Pure Holdings Ltd 100%
- Tarn Pure (IP) Limited 100%
- HeiQ Trading Ltd 100%
- Tarn-Pure Ireland Limited 100%
- HeiQ AeoniQ Portugal 100%
- HeiQ BioTech LLC 100%
Significant events
- “Sale of a HX Company Ltd: In March 2025, the Group sold its 66.7% participation in HX Company Ltd to the joint venture partner. HX Company Ltd will be de-consolidated in 2025.”
- “Sale of shares in HeIQ AeoniQ Holding AG: In July 2025 the Group closed a transaction with a new strategic partner for HeiQ AeoniQ Holding AG. In course of the transaction, the Group sold 40,500 shares of HeiQ AeoniQ Holding AG for a consideration of EUR10.5 million paid in cash. Further, the transaction included a capital raise in HeiQ AeoniQ Holding AG by the strategic investor; the Group participated by converting certain loans into equity. In parallel to the transaction, the Group acquired the HeiQ AeoniQ Holding AG shares of a minority shareholder. Following the transactions, the Group remains invested with a equity stake of 38% in HeiQ AeoniQ Holding AG. Accordingly, HeiQ AeoniQ Holding AG and its subsidiaries will be de-consolidated in 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CENTONZE, Carlo | Director | 2020-12-07 | Jun 1974 | Swiss |
| DUNN, Thomas Robert Forster | Director | 2025-01-14 | Feb 1965 | British |
| HANGARTNER, Xaver | Director | 2020-12-07 | Jul 1983 | Swiss |
| MORCOMBE, Darren | Director | 2025-01-14 | Aug 1969 | Australian |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AINGER, Ross | Secretary | 2020-12-07 | 2025-12-16 |
| AINGER, Ross | Secretary | 2014-05-14 | 2019-10-31 |
| DACK, Michael George | Secretary | 2019-10-31 | 2020-12-07 |
| AINGER, Ross George James | Director | 2020-01-10 | 2020-12-07 |
| BERGO, Benjamin Scot | Director | 2020-12-07 | 2024-12-31 |
| BRADE, Karen Mary | Director | 2020-12-07 | 2024-12-31 |
| BURNE, Malcolm Alec | Director | 2014-05-14 | 2020-12-07 |
| CANNON-BROOKES, Charles | Director | 2014-05-14 | 2020-01-10 |
| DALE, Esther Maria | Director | 2020-12-07 | 2024-03-31 |
| LOCKWOOD, Richard | Director | 2014-05-14 | 2014-06-19 |
| STEINBERG, Nathan Anthony | Director | 2014-06-19 | 2020-12-07 |
| VAN DE KERKHOF, Robert Antoine Henri | Director | 2024-01-01 | 2024-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Darren Morcombe | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2025-09-05 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 103 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-01-10 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-01-10 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-12-02 CERT10 Certificate re registration public limited company to private
- 2024-12-02 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-12-02 RR02 Reregistration public to private company
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-12-19 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-09-15 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-15 | PSC09 | persons-with-significant-control | Withdrawal of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-08-28 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-06-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-05-28 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-01-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-13 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-01-10 | SH02 | capital | Capital alter shares consolidation | |
| 2025-01-10 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-01-10 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-01-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-02 | CERT10 | change-of-name | Certificate re registration public limited company to private | |
| 2024-12-02 | MAR | incorporation | Re registration memorandum articles | |
| 2024-12-02 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-12-02 | RR02 | change-of-name | Reregistration public to private company |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 3
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
FY2024 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2024-06-30