Tufcot Engineering Limited
Registered name: TUFCOT ENGINEERING LIMITED
Tufcot Engineering Limited made £5.4m revenue and £851k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Tufcot Engineering Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £5.4m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £851k profit and 56 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of plastic plates, sheets, tubes and profiles” and is based in Sheffield; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 45 yrs · since 1981
- 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. From the filing: “The immediate parent company is Dacke Industri Holding AB, a company incorporated in Sweden. The registered office is Hästmöllegränden 3, SE-252 20 Helsingborg, Sweden. The registered number is 556664”
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 | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £5.1m | £5.4m |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £2.1m | £2.6m |
| Gross profit | — | — | £3m | £2.8m |
| Operating profit | — | — | £530k | £1.2m |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £543k | £1.2m |
| Profit after tax | — | — | £400k | £851k |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | £400k | £851k |
| Staff costs | — | — | £3m | £2.3m |
| Employees (average) | 48 | 50 | 53 | 56 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | 7.9% | 15.7% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 58.5% | 51.7% |
| Revenue per employee | — | — | £95.7k | £96.5k |
| Profit per employee | — | — | £7.5k | £15.2k |
| Cash conversion | — | — | −124.3% | −49.8% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▲6.6% |
| Profit growth | — | — | — | ▲112.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲4.2% | ▲6% | ▲5.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.7m | £1.7m | £1.9m | £2.3m |
| Net assets | £3.3m | £3.8m | £4.1m | £5m |
| Fixed assets | £1.6m | £2.7m | £2.6m | £2.4m |
| Current assets | £2.7m | £2.7m | £2.9m | £3.4m |
| Debtors | £827k | £711k | £632k | £686k |
| Deferred income | — | — | £815k | £129k |
| Cash from operations | — | — | −£659k | −£593k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 15.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 51.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £96.5k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £15.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- −49.8%
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 45.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 2.4%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.7%
- 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
- ▲21%
- Now £5m
- Cash at bank
- ▲21%
- Now £2.3m
- Headcount
- ▲6%
- Now 56
- Deferred income
- ▼84%
- Now £129k
- Fixed assets
- ▼6%
- Now £2.4m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £851k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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