Process Control Equipment Limited
Registered name: PROCESS CONTROL EQUIPMENT LIMITED
Part of Pce Holdings Limited groupProcess Control Equipment Limited made £48.1m revenue and £1.8m profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Process Control Equipment Limited’s revenue grew 44% to £48.1m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £1.8m profit and 97 employees. The company is classified under “non-specialised wholesale trade” and is based in Sedgefield; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Sedgefield, North East
- Age
- 46 yrs · since 1980
- 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
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £33.5m | £48.1m |
| Cost of sales | £25.3m | −£37m |
| Gross profit | £8.2m | £11.1m |
| Operating profit | £1.1m | £2.8m |
| Profit before tax | £408k | £2.1m |
| Profit after tax | £297k | £1.8m |
| Profit (best available) | £297k | £1.8m |
| Employees (average) | 89 | 97 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | 0.9% | 3.7% |
| Gross margin | 24.4% | 23.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £376k | £496k |
| Profit per employee | £3.3k | £18.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲43.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲492.3% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Net assets | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Feb 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jan 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £496k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £18.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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 —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲9%
- Now 97
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Pce Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Process Control Equipment Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- Process Control Equipment Scotland LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (1)
- Action Fitness LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £1.8m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jan 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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