Biogas Technology Limited
Registered name: BIOGAS TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Part of Ylem Group Limited groupBiogas Technology Limited made £7.5m revenue and a £636k loss in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Biogas Technology Limited’s revenue fell 6% to £7.5m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with a loss of £636k and 0 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other special-purpose machinery” and is based in Salford Quays; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Salford Quays, North West
- Age
- 37 yrs · since 1988
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Pass-through vehicle. This looks like a holding, staffing or umbrella company. Its revenue and profit may largely pass through to or from other entities, so the figures may not reflect a standalone operating business. It is excluded from our opportunity lists.
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 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £8m | £7.5m |
| Cost of sales | £6.5m | £6.6m |
| Gross profit | £1.4m | £906k |
| Operating profit | £899k | £737k |
| Profit before tax | −£930k | −£200k |
| Profit after tax | −£664k | −£636k |
| Profit (best available) | −£664k | −£636k |
| Employees (average) | 0 | 0 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −8.3% | −8.5% |
| Gross margin | 18.1% | 12% |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼5.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £2.2m | £2.3m |
| Net assets | £6.5m | £5.9m |
| Fixed assets | £15.5m | £14.7m |
| Current assets | £3.3m | £3.5m |
| Debtors | £76.9k | £54k |
| Deferred income | £397k | £738k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −8.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 12%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 195.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 9.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- 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
- ▼10%
- Now £5.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲8%
- Now £2.3m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- ▲86%
- Now £738k
- Fixed assets
- ▼5%
- Now £14.7m
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
- Ylem Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Biogas Technology Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (19)
- Ylem Energy LimitedRev. £16.9m · Profit £1.8m
- Essential Control LimitedRev. £539k · Profit −£341k
- Power-Zero LimitedRev. £264k · Profit −£2.2m
- 04821916 LimitedLiquidationFigures not disclosed
- Adamson Del 27 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Adamson Del 4 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Apeiron Properties LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Biogas Technology (Sawtry) LimitedRev. — · Profit −£42.3k
- Blaguegate Power LimitedFigures not disclosed
- CMR Consultants LimitedRev. — · Profit £43.8k
- Edison-DC LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Great Dunmow Power LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Knowsley Energy Recovery LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Land Fill Gas LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Root-Power LimitedRev. — · Profit −£8.9k
- Sutton Power LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Wharfside Power LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Ylem Flexible Power LimitedRev. — · Profit −£306k
- Ylem Power 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 Mar 2025 (profit −£636k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Dec 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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