HARBISONWALKER INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
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Executive summary
HarbisonWalker International Limited is a 100-year-old UK refractory manufacturer that has been strategically absorbed into the Platinum Equity–Calderys consolidation, with its Bromborough trade ceasing and its role reduced to orderly wind-down and value realisation. The financial position supports that transition well — £3.18M net assets, ~£991k of stable cash, liabilities down 13.3% year-on-year and a 63% equity ratio — but the residual value now depends on execution of property realisation, customer-book transfer, IP assignment and pension de-risking rather than on any commercial growth. The principal threats are environmental remediation exposure at a legacy industrial site, customer attrition to competitors during transition, and thin local governance following the reduction to a single group-appointed director.
Shareholders' funds
£2,497,763
Balance sheet as at 2020-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is sale of refractories products and services.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1921-07-22
- Employees
- 34 (2022 accounts · was 32 in 2021)
- Registered office
- Unit 3 & 4 Olympic Park, Poole Hall Road, Ellesmere Port, England, CH66 1ST
- Postcode
- CH66 1ST
- Capital
- 408,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Audit Exemption Subsidiary
- 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
- 2026-05-29
- Next due by
- 2027-06-12
Nature of business (SIC)
- 23200 Manufacture of refractory products
Officers 1 current · 25 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by Harbisonwalker International Holdings Inc (03288714) — since 2016-05-29
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| ANH REFRACTORIES EUROPE LIMITED | 2015-02-21 |
| HARBISON-WALKER REFRACTORIES LIMITED | 2008-08-04 |
| A.P.GREEN REFRACTORIES LIMITED | 1999-02-17 |
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| DOCK RD SOUTH, BROMBOROUGH, MERSEYSIDE, CH62 4SP | 2009-06-10 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 22 similar companies in CH — measured against the wider sector
3rd largest employer among its local peers (34 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1921.