GML ABRASIVES LIMITED
Company number 04079430 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
GML Abrasives is a financially resilient but sub-scale UK abrasive products manufacturer whose £246.7k net asset base, £198.4k working capital and low debt give it room to act, while five-employee key-person concentration and £130.9k inventory constrain growth. The priority is to convert balance-sheet stability into focused commercial expansion—specialty products, distributor/e-commerce reach and working-capital discipline—while mitigating succession, customer concentration and input-cost risks.
Shareholders' funds
£246,717
Balance sheet as at 2025-09-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2000-09-27
- Employees
- 5 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- Unit 11 Notley Enterprise Park, Great Wenham, Colchester, Essex, CO7 6QD
- Postcode
- CO7 6QD
- Capital
- 2 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-06-30
- Financial year end
- 30 September
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-09-02
- Next due by
- 2027-09-16
Nature of business (SIC)
- 23910 Production of abrasive products
Officers 3 current · 4 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA757394 (Tier 1), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| V4M LIMITED | 2001-09-26 |
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| ANGLIA HOUSE, NORTH STATION ROAD, COLCHESTER, ESSEX CO1 1SB | 2001-09-26 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 28 similar companies in CO — measured against the wider sector
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2000.
The class of 2000
41%
of the 75,535 companies incorporated in 2000 are still active today; 56% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.