Kongsberg Actuation Systems Limited
Registered name: KONGSBERG ACTUATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
Part of Kongsberg Automotive Asa groupKongsberg Actuation Systems Limited made £27.6m revenue and a £681k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Kongsberg Actuation Systems Limited’s revenue fell 11% to £27.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £681k and 178 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles” and is based in Normanton; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Normanton, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 18 yrs · since 2007
- 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 is Kongsberg Actuation Systems AS, incorporated in Norway.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £31m | £27.6m |
| Cost of sales | £25.7m | £20.1m |
| Gross profit | £5.3m | £7.6m |
| Operating profit | £1.2m | £808k |
| Profit before tax | −£1.2m | −£978k |
| Profit after tax | −£654k | −£681k |
| Profit (best available) | −£654k | −£681k |
| Staff costs | £9.6m | £8.6m |
| Employees (average) | 197 | 178 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | −2.1% | −2.5% |
| Gross margin | 17.1% | 27.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £158k | £155k |
| Profit per employee | −£3.3k | −£3.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼11.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼9.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £40k | £1.9m |
| Net assets | −£6.1m | −£6.8m |
| Fixed assets | £5.8m | £5.4m |
| Current assets | £12.2m | £12.7m |
| Debtors | £4.1m | £4.1m |
| Deferred income | £815k | £1.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −2.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 27.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £155k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£3.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 19.7%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 4.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.9%
- 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 −£6.8m
- Cash at bank
- ▲4660%
- Now £1.9m
- Headcount
- ▼10%
- Now 178
- Deferred income
- ▲46%
- Now £1.2m
- Fixed assets
- ▼6%
- Now £5.4m
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
- Kongsberg Automotive Asa (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Kongsberg Actuation Systems Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Minority corporate shareholders
- Kongsberg Automotive Asa (registered outside the UK register)
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 −£681k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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