Katmex Limited
Registered name: KATMEX LIMITED
Part of Lumina Innovations Limited groupKatmex Limited made £11m revenue and a £2.1m loss in the year to 30 Sep 2025.
Katmex Limited’s revenue grew 3% to £11m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with a loss of £2.1m and 104 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other fabricated metal products” and is based in Cleveland; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cleveland, North East
- Age
- 27 yrs · since 1999
- 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 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £10.7m | £11m |
| Cost of sales | £11m | £10.9m |
| Gross profit | −£328k | £69k |
| Operating profit | −£2m | −£1.9m |
| Profit before tax | −£2m | −£1.9m |
| Profit after tax | −£1.5m | −£2.1m |
| Profit (best available) | −£1.5m | −£2.1m |
| Staff costs | £3.4m | £3.4m |
| Employees (average) | 105 | 104 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −14.1% | −18.9% |
| Gross margin | −3.1% | 0.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £102k | £106k |
| Profit per employee | −£14.3k | −£19.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲2.7% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼0.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £1.3m | £306k |
| Net assets | £7m | £4.9m |
| Fixed assets | £3.9m | £3.6m |
| Current assets | £6.4m | £4.4m |
| Debtors | £1.4m | £819k |
| Deferred income | £131k | £139k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −18.9%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 0.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £106k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£19.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 32.9%
- 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
- 7.4%
- 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
- ▼30%
- Now £4.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▼77%
- Now £306k
- Headcount
- ▼1%
- Now 104
- Deferred income
- ▲6%
- Now £139k
- Fixed assets
- ▼7%
- Now £3.6m
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
- Lumina Innovations Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Katmex Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Sep 2025 (profit −£2.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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