Photonic Science & Engineering Ltd
Registered name: PHOTONIC SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LTD
Part of TQ Scientific Limited groupPhotonic Science & Engineering Ltd does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Dec 2023 show net assets of £2.3m and 24 employees.
Photonic Science & Engineering Ltd did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2023 showed net assets of £2.3m and 24 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of electronic measuring, testing etc. equipment, not for industrial process control” and is based in Cambridge; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Cambridge, East of England
- Age
- 8 yrs · since 2018
- 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.
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Photonic Science & Engineering Ltd’s accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2023 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 24
- Net assets
- £2.3m
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 24 | 24 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Headcount growth | — | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £353k | £275k |
| Net assets | £1.8m | £2.3m |
| Fixed assets | £152k | £178k |
| Current assets | £2.3m | £2.7m |
| Debtors | £779k | £1.1m |
| Source | AbridgedAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 | AbridgedAccounts · bulk data Sep 2024 |
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
- ▲24%
- Now £2.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▼22%
- Now £275k
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 24
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲17%
- Now £178k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- TQ Scientific Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Photonic Science & Engineering Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- Levy Hill Group LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Photek LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Scientific Instruments LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from AbridgedAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2023, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2024. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 17 Oct 2026
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