CAPITAL REFRACTORIES LIMITED
Company number 01101489 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Capital Refractories Limited presents a financially robust balance sheet bolstered by £19.5M in cash following the August 2025 divestiture of Capital Injection Ceramics Limited to Siemens Energy, but its core refractory manufacturing business is exhibiting symptoms of distress with a 20% decline in turnover and a slide from operating profit to operating loss. The substantial £25.8M dividend distribution has reduced net assets, and the company's long-term financial health now depends on reversing the operational decline and strategically deploying its remaining cash reserves to revitalise the underlying business.
Shareholders' funds
£9,664,670
Balance sheet as at 2025-11-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of the manufacture and sale of refractory materials and associated activities.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1973-03-13
- Employees
- 58 (2025 accounts · was 60 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Station Road, Clowne, Derbyshire, S43 4AB
- Postcode
- S43 4AB
- Capital
- 15,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-11-30
- Next due by
- 2027-08-31
- Financial year end
- 30 November
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-11-03
- Next due by
- 2027-11-17
Nature of business (SIC)
- 23200 Manufacture of refractory products
- 32990 Other manufacturing not elsewhere classified
Officers 3 current · 1 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by CAPITAL REFRACTORIES HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2025-09-30
-
PYEMETRIC REFRACTORIES LTD. Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA775932 (Tier 2), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- capitalrefractories.uk
Capital Refractories specialises in supplying refractory linings and associated products to metal melting, foundry and other related industries such as cement and petrochemical.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| MANSOME LIMITED | 1982-02-11 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 85 similar companies in S — measured against the wider sector
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (58 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1973.
The class of 1973
51%
of the 7,318 companies incorporated in 1973 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Freehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 1994-09-23
- Where
- Derbyshire
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DY62945 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 1994-09-23 | — |
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