ENVIROWALES LIMITED
Company number 04296277 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Envirowales Limited is a large UK secondary lead smelter operating in a commodity-driven, capital-intensive recycling sector, but its financial profile is markedly weaker than industry norms, with persistent negative equity and thin margins. The company’s performance is highly sensitive to LME lead prices and energy costs, and while a planned capital investment programme aims to improve capacity and efficiency, its competitive position remains constrained by balance sheet fragility and reliance on group support. The company is a niche player with operational strengths but faces significant headwinds from sector volatility and structural underperformance.
Shareholders' funds
-£16,160,934
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of processing and recycling
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2001-10-01
- Employees
- 171 (2025 accounts · was 175 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Faulkner House, Victoria Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3SE
- Postcode
- AL1 3SE
- Capital
- 3,938,277 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 82990 Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 8 current · 14 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by ENVIROLEAD RECYCLING LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker (Worker (A rating)).
Matched by registered name to the register of licensed sponsors (Home Office, updated daily) — check the register itself before relying on it. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2022 (period to 2021-12-31) — 3 years on the registry.
Read the statement summary on the government modern slavery statement registry. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA704003 (Tier 1), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 7A NEVILL STREET, ABERGAVENNY, MONMOUTHSHIRE, NP7 5AA | 2006-08-21 |
Among its peers
2nd largest employer
of 501 similar companies in AL, with 171 staff. Among the oldest 25% of its local peers.
Competitors St. Albans
This company ranks 689 among other business support service activities not elsewhere classified in St. Albans.
The class of 2001
29%
of the 5,958 companies in this sector incorporated in 2001 are still active today; 70% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.