Blackwood Engineering Limited
Registered name: BLACKWOOD ENGINEERING LIMITED
Part of Birdel Limited groupBlackwood Engineering Limited made £65.9m revenue and £726k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Blackwood Engineering Limited’s revenue grew 11% to £65.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £726k profit and 170 employees. The company is classified under “treatment and coating of metals” and is based in Gwent; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Gwent, Wales
- Age
- 79 yrs · since 1946
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £76.5m | £73.6m | £59.5m | £65.9m |
| Cost of sales | £67.7m | £62.9m | −£52m | −£57.1m |
| Gross profit | £8.8m | £10.6m | £7.5m | £8.8m |
| Operating profit | £4.6m | £6.8m | £2.7m | £2.2m |
| Profit before tax | £3.2m | £5.7m | £1.1m | £981k |
| Profit after tax | £2.5m | £4.4m | £878k | £726k |
| Profit (best available) | £2.5m | £4.4m | £878k | £726k |
| Staff costs | £5.1m | £6.2m | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 165 | 169 | 169 | 170 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3.2% | 5.9% | 1.5% | 1.1% |
| Gross margin | 11.5% | 14.5% | 12.6% | 13.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £464k | £435k | £352k | £388k |
| Profit per employee | £15k | £25.7k | £5.2k | £4.3k |
| Cash conversion | −40% | −102.9% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼3.8% | ▼19.1% | ▲10.9% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲75.4% | ▼79.8% | ▼17.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲2.4% | 0% | ▲0.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £889k | £3.1m | — | — |
| Net assets | £5.8m | £10.1m | — | — |
| Fixed assets | £2.2m | £4.2m | — | — |
| Current assets | £37.3m | £32.4m | — | — |
| Debtors | £15.3m | £10.8m | — | — |
| Deferred income | £8.6m | £6.4m | — | — |
| Cash from operations | −£1.8m | −£7m | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £388k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £4.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲1%
- Now 170
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Birdel Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Blackwood Engineering Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £726k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 11 Oct 2026
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