Metallink Fluid Power Systems Limited
Registered name: METALLINK FLUID POWER SYSTEMS LIMITED
Metallink Fluid Power Systems Limited made £9.9m revenue and £498k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Metallink Fluid Power Systems Limited’s revenue fell 14% to £9.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £498k profit and 79 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in Crook; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Crook, North East
- Age
- 29 yrs · since 1996
- 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 ultimate parent company is G.B. Spa, a company incorporated in Italy, which owns 100% of the issued share capital. G.B. Spa is controlled by Mrs A Bianconcini who owns 81.48% of the share capital.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £15.4m | £11.6m | £9.9m |
| Cost of sales | £9.5m | £7.3m | £6.6m |
| Gross profit | £5.9m | £4.3m | £3.3m |
| Operating profit | £3.2m | £1.6m | — |
| Profit before tax | £3.2m | £1.6m | £489k |
| Profit after tax | £2.6m | £1.5m | £498k |
| Profit (best available) | £2.6m | £1.5m | £498k |
| Staff costs | £3.8m | £3.4m | £3m |
| Employees (average) | 94 | 98 | 79 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 16.8% | 13% | 5% |
| Gross margin | 38.1% | 37% | 33.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £164k | £118k | £126k |
| Profit per employee | £27.4k | £15.4k | £6.3k |
| Cash conversion | −111.9% | −106.5% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼24.5% | ▼14.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼41.4% | ▼67% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲4.3% | ▼19.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £4.7m | £3.8m | £4.9m |
| Net assets | £8.1m | £8.3m | £9m |
| Fixed assets | £1.4m | £1.7m | £1.8m |
| Current assets | £9.5m | £7.8m | £8.8m |
| Debtors | £2.4m | £1.2m | £1.6m |
| Deferred income | £187k | £58.5k | £128k |
| Cash from operations | −£3.6m | −£1.7m | −£1.3m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 33.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £126k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £6.3k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 18.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 1.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 16.3%
- 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
- ▲9%
- Now £9m
- Cash at bank
- ▲28%
- Now £4.9m
- Headcount
- ▼19%
- Now 79
- Deferred income
- ▲119%
- Now £128k
- Fixed assets
- ▲4%
- Now £1.8m
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 2024 (profit £498k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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