CARBIDE INDUSTRIES LIMITED

Company number 04625196 ·

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Executive summary

Carbide Industries Limited is a well-established, conservatively financed niche chemical wholesaler that consistently outperforms typical SME sector metrics in liquidity, cash generation, and net asset growth. Its 2024 balance sheet shows a sharp increase in trade volumes, which, while carrying elevated receivables risk, is supported by an exceptionally strong cash cushion and minimal debt. The company occupies a defensible position as a specialist distributor, though its small size and family-led structure limit market share and expose it to succession and trade credit dependencies.

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Shareholders' funds

£722,942

Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31

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Overview

Company type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
2002-12-24
Employees
5 (2025 accounts · was 3 in 2024)
Registered office
Old Linen Court, 83-85 Shambles Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, S70 2SB
Postcode
S70 2SB
Capital
2,000 GBP
Accounts category
Total Exemption Full

Accounts

Last made up to
2025-12-31
Next due by
2027-09-30
Financial year end
31 December

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2025-12-24
Next due by
2027-01-07
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 46750 Wholesale of chemical products

Officers 3 current · 13 resigned

Subscribers only Director
Subscribers only Appointed 2024-11-21
Subscribers only Director
Appointed 2020-01-01
Subscribers only Director
Appointed 2018-12-24

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Licensed visa sponsor

Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).

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Data protection registration

Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA907993 (Tier 1), registered since 2021.

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Contact details

Website
carbideindustries.co.uk

A team full of solutions. Providing clients with the best products. Set up in 1976 by BOC in conjunction with ODDA SMELTEVERK in Norway...

Previous registered addresses 5

AddressChanged on
SALISBURY HOUSE, STATION ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, CB1 2LA2020-05-19
ALTHORPE WHARF, KEADBY, SCUNTHORPE, NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE DN17 3DA2006-06-12
ALTHORPE WHARF, KEADBY, SCUNTHORPE, NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE DN17 3DA2006-06-12
16 CHURCHILL WAY, CARDIFF, CF10 2DX2003-02-05
16 CHURCHILL WAY, CARDIFF, CF10 2DX2003-02-05

Among its peers

Top 25%

by shareholders' funds, of 24 similar companies in S

Trading since 2002.

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Competitors Sheffield

This company ranks 6 among wholesale of chemical products in Sheffield.

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The class of 2002

39%

of the 122,928 companies incorporated in 2002 are still active today; 58% have since been dissolved.

A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.

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