Wayland Additive Limited
Registered name: WAYLAND ADDITIVE LIMITED
Wayland Additive Limited made £3m revenue and a £4.9m loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Wayland Additive Limited’s revenue grew 82% to £3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £4.9m and 68 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of metal forming machinery” and is based in Huddersfield; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Huddersfield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 7 yrs · since 2019
- 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: “No individual shareholder has control of the company.”
Key figures
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 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | £1.7m | £3m |
| Cost of sales | — | — | £745k | £1.6m |
| Gross profit | — | — | £927k | £1.5m |
| Operating profit | — | — | −£5.5m | −£5.3m |
| Profit before tax | — | — | −£5.6m | −£5.5m |
| Profit after tax | — | — | −£5m | −£4.9m |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | −£5m | −£4.9m |
| Staff costs | — | — | £4.5m | £4.8m |
| Employees (average) | 48 | 59 | — | 68 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | −297.9% | −161% |
| Gross margin | — | — | 55.5% | 48.9% |
| Revenue per employee | — | — | — | £44.8k |
| Profit per employee | — | — | — | −£72.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | — | — | ▲82.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲22.9% | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £517k | £2.6m | £2.4m | £2.6m |
| Net assets | £59.8k | £4.7m | £5.7m | £4.4m |
| Fixed assets | £761k | £720k | £563k | £466k |
| Current assets | £3.7m | £6.7m | £7.7m | £6.5m |
| Debtors | £135k | £352k | £1.1m | £22.3k |
| Deferred income | £601k | £1.1m | £588k | £670k |
| Cash from operations | — | — | £6.7m | £3.8m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Apr 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −161%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 48.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £44.8k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£72.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 15.3%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 22%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- 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
- ▼23%
- Now £4.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲7%
- Now £2.6m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 68
- Deferred income
- ▲14%
- Now £670k
- Fixed assets
- ▼17%
- Now £466k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Minority corporate shareholders
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit −£4.9m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026
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