Anti-Friction Components Limited
Registered name: ANTI-FRICTION COMPONENTS LIMITED
Part of Bianchi Industrial Spa groupAnti-Friction Components Limited made £41.3m revenue and £643k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Anti-Friction Components Limited’s revenue grew 59% to £41.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £643k profit and 171 employees. The company is classified under “agents specialized in the sale of other particular products” and is based in Abergavenny; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Abergavenny, Wales
- Age
- 50 yrs · since 1976
- 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&L | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £24m | £25.9m | £25.9m | £41.3m |
| Cost of sales | £15.8m | £17m | −£16.9m | −£27.5m |
| Gross profit | £8.2m | £8.9m | £9m | £13.8m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £1.2m | £888k | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | £1m | £1.2m | £826k | £950k |
| Profit after tax | £820k | £877k | £613k | £643k |
| Profit (best available) | £820k | £877k | £613k | £643k |
| Staff costs | £4.2m | £4.6m | £4.7m | — |
| Employees (average) | 125 | 123 | 121 | 171 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3.4% | 3.4% | 2.4% | 1.6% |
| Gross margin | 34% | 34.3% | 34.9% | 33.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £192k | £211k | £214k | £241k |
| Profit per employee | £6.6k | £7.1k | £5.1k | £3.8k |
| Cash conversion | 4.8% | 67.9% | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲8% | ▼0% | ▲59.2% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲6.9% | ▼30.1% | ▲4.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼1.6% | ▼1.6% | ▲41.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £219k | £544k | £58.5k | — |
| Net assets | £4.8m | £5.7m | £6.3m | — |
| Fixed assets | £472k | £548k | £5.1m | — |
| Current assets | £11.1m | £11.6m | £10.7m | — |
| Debtors | £5.2m | £5.2m | £4.4m | — |
| Deferred income | £1m | £774k | £3.1m | — |
| Cash from operations | £51.4k | £817k | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 33.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £241k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £3.8k
- 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
- ▲41%
- Now 171
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Bianchi Industrial Spa (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent50–75%
- Anti-Friction Components Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Scots Bearings LimitedRev. £17.3m · Profit £764k
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 £643k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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