Environmental Combustion Technologies Limited
Registered name: ENVIRONMENTAL COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Part of Environmental Combustion Technologies (Holdings) Limited groupEnvironmental Combustion Technologies Limited made £4.5m revenue and a £768k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Environmental Combustion Technologies Limited’s revenue was £4.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £768k and 34 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of other special-purpose machinery” and is based in Hyde; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Hyde, North West
- Age
- 14 yrs · since 2011
- 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 ultimate controlling party”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 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) | £2.8m | £3.5m | £4.5m |
| Cost of sales | £2m | £4.1m | £3.1m |
| Gross profit | £823k | −£610k | £1.4m |
| Operating profit | −£3.4m | £31.4m | −£719k |
| Profit before tax | −£4.9m | £29.5m | −£768k |
| Profit after tax | −£5.2m | £29.5m | −£768k |
| Profit (best available) | −£5.2m | £29.5m | −£768k |
| Employees (average) | 41 | 36 | 34 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −181.8% | 849.3% | −17% |
| Gross margin | 29% | −17.6% | 31.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £69.3k | £96.4k | £133k |
| Profit per employee | −£126k | £819k | −£22.6k |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £96.6k | £873k | £108k |
| Net assets | −£26.6m | £1.9m | £1m |
| Fixed assets | £474k | £152k | £130k |
| Current assets | £3.6m | £3.3m | £2.5m |
| Debtors | £537k | £747k | £465k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −17%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 31.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £133k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£22.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 10.3%
- 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 £1m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £108k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 34
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now £130k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Environmental Combustion Technologies (Holdings) Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Environmental Combustion Technologies Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Ect Crematoria Servicing LimitedFigures 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 −£768k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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