Btu Europe Limited
Registered name: BTU EUROPE LIMITED
Part of Amtech Systems Inc groupBtu Europe Limited made £2.8m revenue and £75.6k profit in the year to 30 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Btu Europe Limited’s revenue fell 16% to £2.8m in the year to 30 Sep 2025, with £75.6k profit and 9 employees. The company is classified under “installation of industrial machinery and equipment” and is based in Aldershot; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Aldershot, South East
- Age
- 45 yrs · since 1981
- 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 company was controlled throughout the current and previous year by its immediate parent company, BTU Overseas Limited, a company incorporated in the state of Delaware, USA.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 | 30 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £2.8m | £4m | £3.4m | £2.8m |
| Cost of sales | £723k | £993k | £1.8m | £1.3m |
| Gross profit | £2m | £3m | £1.5m | £1.5m |
| Operating profit | £703k | £1.4m | −£46.5k | £70.7k |
| Profit before tax | £702k | £1.4m | −£48.6k | £78.2k |
| Profit after tax | £560k | £1.1m | −£48.6k | £75.6k |
| Profit (best available) | £560k | £1.1m | −£48.6k | £75.6k |
| Staff costs | £556k | £631k | £575k | £655k |
| Employees (average) | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 20.3% | 27.9% | −1.5% | 2.7% |
| Gross margin | 73.8% | 75.3% | 45.1% | 54.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £307k | £502k | £420k | £315k |
| Profit per employee | £62.3k | £140k | −£6.1k | £8.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲45.4% | ▼16.2% | ▼15.8% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲99.7% | ▼104.3% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼11.1% | 0% | ▲12.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £1.3m | £618k | £947k | £1.7m |
| Net assets | £1.1m | £1.6m | £1.5m | £1.6m |
| Fixed assets | — | — | £7.6k | — |
| Current assets | £2.1m | £2.1m | £1.8m | £2.1m |
| Debtors | £261k | £310k | £311k | £263k |
| Deferred income | £317k | £252k | £128k | £131k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Apr 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 2.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 54.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £315k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £8.4k
- 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
- 4.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 9.3%
- 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
- ▲5%
- Now £1.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲77%
- Now £1.7m
- Headcount
- ▲13%
- Now 9
- Deferred income
- ▲3%
- Now £131k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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
- Amtech Systems Inc (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Btu Europe 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 30 Sep 2025 (profit £75.6k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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