Coryton Advanced Fuels Limited
Registered name: CORYTON ADVANCED FUELS LIMITED
Part of Premier Bidco Limited groupCoryton Advanced Fuels Limited made £29.1m revenue and £3.7m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Coryton Advanced Fuels Limited’s revenue grew 16% to £29.1m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £3.7m profit and 61 employees. The company is classified under “other treatment of petroleum products (excluding petrochemicals manufacture)” and is based in Stanford Le Hope; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Stanford Le Hope, East of England
- Age
- 16 yrs · since 2010
- 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: “At the reporting date Premier Bidco was the immediate parent company and the ultimate parent undertaking was Lantmanned ek för, a company incorporated in Sweden. The ultimate controlling party was Lan”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £27.8m | £25.1m | £29.1m |
| Cost of sales | £17m | £14.5m | £16.4m |
| Gross profit | £10.8m | £10.7m | £12.7m |
| Operating profit | £4.9m | £3.8m | £4.8m |
| Profit before tax | £5.1m | £3.5m | £4.5m |
| Profit after tax | £4.3m | £3m | £3.7m |
| Profit (best available) | £4.3m | £3m | £3.7m |
| Employees (average) | 52 | 59 | 61 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 15.4% | 11.9% | 12.7% |
| Gross margin | 39% | 42.4% | 43.6% |
| Revenue per employee | £535k | £426k | £478k |
| Profit per employee | £82.4k | £50.9k | £60.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼9.6% | ▲16% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼29.9% | ▲23.4% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲13.5% | ▲3.4% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £802 | £1.1k | £758 |
| Net assets | £13.3m | £13.8m | £16m |
| Fixed assets | £8.9m | £9.7m | £11.2m |
| Debtors | £3.6m | £3.2m | £4.2m |
| Deferred income | £719k | £548k | £1.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 12.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 43.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £478k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £60.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 38.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 14.5%
- 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
- ▲15%
- Now £16m
- Cash at bank
- ▼28%
- Now £758
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 61
- Deferred income
- ▲182%
- Now £1.5m
- Fixed assets
- ▲16%
- Now £11.2m
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
- Premier Bidco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Coryton Advanced Fuels 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 Dec 2025 (profit £3.7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Apr 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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