Qualitech Environmental Services Limited
Registered name: QUALITECH ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES LIMITED
Part of TDR Capital LLP groupQualitech Environmental Services Limited made £24.9m revenue and £162k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Qualitech Environmental Services Limited’s revenue grew 3% to £24.9m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £162k profit and 133 employees. The company is classified under “collection of hazardous waste” and is based in ST Helens; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- ST Helens
- Age
- 15 yrs · since 2011
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Key figures
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Profit & loss | Profit & loss | Profit & loss |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £27.2m | £24.2m | £24.9m |
| Cost of sales | −£16.6m | −£16m | −£16.3m |
| Gross profit | £10.6m | £8.2m | £8.5m |
| Operating profit | £4.8m | £1.5m | £1.4m |
| Profit before tax | £3.8m | £252k | £102k |
| Profit after tax | £2.9m | £151k | £162k |
| Profit (best available) | £2.9m | £151k | £162k |
| Employees (average) | 138 | 133 | 133 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 10.7% | 0.6% | 0.7% |
| Gross margin | 38.9% | 34% | 34.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £197k | £182k | £187k |
| Profit per employee | £21k | £1.1k | £1.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼10.9% | ▲2.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼94.8% | ▲6.8% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼3.6% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 34.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £187k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.2k
- 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
- 0%
- Now 133
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- TDR Capital LLPultimate parent75–100%
- TDR Capital Nominees 2021 Limited50–75%
- Corpacq Group Limited75–100%
- Corpacq Holdings Limited75–100%
- Corpacq Midco Limited75–100%
- Corpacq Limited75–100%
- Corpacq Finance Limited75–100%
- Qes Holdings Limited75–100%
- Qualitech Environmental Services Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (3)
- Ferrous Protection LtdRev. £4.1m · Profit −£275k
- Friars 935 LimitedRev. £0 · Profit −£11.9k
- Tet Holdings LtdRev. — · Profit −£73.7k
Sister companies (2)
- Qualichem Holdings LtdRev. £0 · Profit £100k
- Qualichem Motherwell LimitedActive - Proposal to Strike offFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £162k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 24 Oct 2026