Atlantic Recycling Limited
Registered name: ATLANTIC RECYCLING LIMITED
Part of Dauson Environmental Group Limited groupAtlantic Recycling Limited made £47.1m revenue and £1.7m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Atlantic Recycling Limited’s revenue was £47.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £1.7m profit and 114 employees. The company is classified under “collection of non-hazardous waste” and is based in Cardiff; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cardiff, Wales
- Age
- 20 yrs · since 2006
- 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 controlling party is Dauson Environmental Limited. The ultimate controlling party is Mr D J Neal.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £34.8m | £47.1m |
| Cost of sales | £27.2m | £40.6m |
| Gross profit | £7.6m | £6.5m |
| Operating profit | £5.9m | £3.1m |
| Profit before tax | £5.3m | £2.5m |
| Profit after tax | £4.6m | £1.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £4.6m | £1.7m |
| Staff costs | £5.2m | £9.3m |
| Employees (average) | 104 | 114 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 13.1% | 3.6% |
| Gross margin | 21.9% | 13.8% |
| Revenue per employee | £335k | £413k |
| Profit per employee | £43.9k | £14.9k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £2m | £3.8m |
| Net assets | £13.1m | £9.8m |
| Fixed assets | £15.7m | £15m |
| Debtors | £3.8m | £5.4m |
| Deferred income | £3m | £1.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.8%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £413k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £14.9k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 31.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.2%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 11.5%
- 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
- —
- Now £9.8m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £3.8m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 114
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £1.5m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £15m
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
- Dauson Environmental Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Atlantic Recycling Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (10)
- Neal Soil Suppliers Ltd.Rev. £28.3m · Profit £202k
- Resources Management U.K. LimitedRev. £13.9m · Profit −£20.8k
- Atlantic Waste Management LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Bingo Group LtdFigures not disclosed
- Bingo Resources LtdFigures not disclosed
- Bluefield Land LtdFigures not disclosed
- Cardiff Demolition Company LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Llanharan Concrete Co.limitedFigures not disclosed
- Mekatek LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Neal Remediation LtdFigures 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 £1.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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