Independent Forgings & Alloys Limited
Registered name: INDEPENDENT FORGINGS & ALLOYS LIMITED
Part of Ifa Holdings Limited groupIndependent Forgings & Alloys Limited made £50.7m revenue and £5.5m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Independent Forgings & Alloys Limited’s revenue grew 8% to £50.7m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £5.5m profit and 276 employees. The company is classified under “forging, pressing, stamping and roll-forming of metal; powder metallurgy” and is based in Sheffield; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 25 yrs · since 2000
- 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 company's immediate parent company is IFA Metals International Limited. The largest and smallest group which prepares publicly available consolidated accounts is IFA Group Limited. Copies of the c”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £24.9m | £34.8m | £47.1m | £50.7m |
| Cost of sales | £19.8m | £27.2m | £32.6m | £37.7m |
| Gross profit | £5.1m | £7.5m | £14.6m | £13m |
| Operating profit | £2.3m | £2.9m | £9.5m | £7.2m |
| Profit before tax | £2.2m | £2.6m | £8.9m | £6.6m |
| Profit after tax | £1.8m | £2.4m | £7.8m | £5.5m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.8m | £2.4m | £7.8m | £5.5m |
| Staff costs | £7.6m | £10m | £12.3m | £13.5m |
| Employees (average) | 185 | 223 | 254 | 276 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 7.2% | 6.9% | 16.6% | 10.8% |
| Gross margin | 20.5% | 21.7% | 30.9% | 25.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £134k | £156k | £185k | £184k |
| Profit per employee | £9.7k | £10.7k | £30.8k | £19.9k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲39.7% | ▲35.5% | ▲7.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲33.6% | ▲227.3% | ▼29.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲20.5% | ▲13.9% | ▲8.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £159k | £806k | £60.3k | £1m |
| Net assets | £14.5m | £15.7m | £21.6m | £25.6m |
| Fixed assets | £6.8m | £7.8m | £5k | £8.7m |
| Current assets | £19m | £25m | £31.5m | £41.9m |
| Debtors | £6.1m | £8.4m | £11.9m | £13.1m |
| Deferred income | £1.8m | £4.2m | £0 | £1.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 10.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 25.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £184k
- 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
- 17.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 25.8%
- 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
- ▲19%
- Now £25.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲1608%
- Now £1m
- Headcount
- ▲9%
- Now 276
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £1.5m
- Fixed assets
- ▲175025%
- Now £8.7m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Ifa Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Ifa Group Limited75–100%
- Ifa Metals International Limited75–100%
- Independent Forgings & Alloys 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 31 Mar 2025 (profit £5.5m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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