Pyropress Limited
Registered name: PYROPRESS LIMITED
Part of Cognesense Holdings UK Limited groupPyropress Limited made £3.6m revenue and £493k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Pyropress Limited’s revenue grew 2% to £3.6m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £493k profit and 29 employees. The company is classified under “other engineering activities” and is based in Plymouth; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Plymouth, South West
- 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
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 | 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) | £2.3m | £2.8m | £3.5m | £3.6m |
| Cost of sales | £823k | £1.3m | £1.5m | £1.6m |
| Gross profit | £1.4m | £1.5m | £2m | £2m |
| Operating profit | £393k | £312k | £507k | £635k |
| Profit before tax | £392k | £312k | £507k | £635k |
| Profit after tax | £314k | £235k | £381k | £493k |
| Profit (best available) | £314k | £235k | £381k | £493k |
| Staff costs | £921k | £1.1m | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 21 | 26 | 30 | 29 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 14% | 8.5% | 10.8% | 13.7% |
| Gross margin | 63.4% | 54.1% | 56.5% | 55.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £107k | £107k | £117k | £124k |
| Profit per employee | £15k | £9k | £12.7k | £17k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲23.6% | ▲26.5% | ▲2.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼25.1% | ▲61.8% | ▲29.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲23.8% | ▲15.4% | ▼3.3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £128k | £46k | £176k | £127k |
| Net assets | £944k | £1.2m | £1.6m | £1.9m |
| Fixed assets | £280k | £393k | £314k | £247k |
| Current assets | £944k | £1.1m | £1.6m | £2.1m |
| Debtors | £269k | £266k | £461k | £668k |
| Deferred income | £70.4k | £77.6k | £51.3k | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 13.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 55.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £124k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £17k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 6.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 18.6%
- 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
- ▲19%
- Now £1.9m
- Cash at bank
- ▼28%
- Now £127k
- Headcount
- ▼3%
- Now 29
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼21%
- Now £247k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Cognesense Holdings UK Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Pioneer Safety Group Limited75–100%
- Pyropress (Propco) Limited75–100%
- Pyropress 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 31 Dec 2025 (profit £493k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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