Tentec Limited
Registered name: TENTEC LIMITED
Part of Atlas Copco Airpower N.V. groupTentec Limited made £11.8m revenue and £484k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Tentec Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £11.8m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £484k profit and 54 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Pendeford; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Pendeford, West Midlands
- Age
- 38 yrs · since 1988
- 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) | £12.3m | £13.1m | £11m | £11.8m |
| Cost of sales | £9.6m | £10.1m | £9.6m | £9m |
| Gross profit | £2.7m | £3m | £1.4m | £2.8m |
| Operating profit | £535k | £767k | −£669k | £640k |
| Profit before tax | £523k | £536k | −£839k | £522k |
| Profit after tax | £471k | £596k | −£599k | £484k |
| Profit (best available) | £471k | £596k | −£599k | £484k |
| Staff costs | £3.7m | £4.1m | £4.1m | £4.1m |
| Employees (average) | 58 | 58 | 58 | 54 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 3.8% | 4.5% | −5.4% | 4.1% |
| Gross margin | 22.3% | 22.7% | 12.8% | 24.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £213k | £226k | £190k | £219k |
| Profit per employee | £8.1k | £10.3k | −£10.3k | £9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲6.4% | ▼16.1% | ▲7.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲26.7% | ▼200.4% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | 0% | ▼6.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | — | — | £29.5k | £22.3k |
| Net assets | £4.1m | £4.7m | £3.6m | £4.1m |
| Fixed assets | £4.6m | £4m | £3.2m | £2.5m |
| Current assets | £6.3m | £6.9m | £4.4m | £4.8m |
| Debtors | £499 | £791 | £25.8k | £107k |
| Deferred income | £348k | £464k | £476k | £604k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 4.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 24.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £219k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 21.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.9%
- 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
- ▲13%
- Now £4.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▼25%
- Now £22.3k
- Headcount
- ▼7%
- Now 54
- Deferred income
- ▲27%
- Now £604k
- Fixed assets
- ▼23%
- Now £2.5m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Atlas Copco Airpower N.V. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Atlas Copco UK Holdings Limited75–100%
- Tentec Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (15)
- Atlas Copco LimitedRev. £196m · Profit £12.9m
- Atlas Copco Ias UK LimitedRev. £39.7m · Profit £6.5m
- Air Compressors & Tools LtdRev. £27.4m · Profit £714k
- Manufacturing Service Solutions LimitedRev. £9.3m · Profit −£242k
- Maziak Compressor Services LimitedRev. £6.3m · Profit £272k
- Ace Air (Ni) LtdFigures not disclosed
- Ae Industrial & Air Equipment LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures not disclosed
- Anglian Compressors Holdings LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Beaconmedaes LtdFigures not disclosed
- Edwards LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kinder-Janes Engineers LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Kingsdown Compressed Air Systems (Holdings) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- MSS Nitrogen LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Northern Compressed Air LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Pneumatic Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £484k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Mar 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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