{"name":"HARBISONWALKER INTERNATIONAL LIMITED","company_number":"00175893","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"1921-07-22","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"Unit 3 & 4 Olympic Park, Poole Hall Road, Ellesmere Port, England, CH66 1ST","postcode":"CH66 1ST","sic_codes":[{"code":23200,"description":"Manufacture of refractory products"}],"principal_activity":"The principal activity of the company is sale of refractories products and services.","previous_names":[{"name":"ANH REFRACTORIES EUROPE LIMITED","changed_on":"2015-02-21"},{"name":"HARBISON-WALKER REFRACTORIES LIMITED","changed_on":"2008-08-04"},{"name":"A.P.GREEN REFRACTORIES LIMITED","changed_on":"1999-02-17"}],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Audit Exemption Subsidiary","year_end":"31 December","last_made_up_to":"2025-12-31","next_due":"2027-09-30"},"employees":{"count":34,"accounts_date":"2022-12-31"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2022-12-31","net_assets":3177473,"cash":991469,"average_employees":34},{"financial_date":"2021-12-31","net_assets":2938464,"cash":996711,"average_employees":32},{"financial_date":"2020-12-31","net_assets":2497763,"cash":1155236},{"financial_date":"2019-12-31","net_assets":2646029,"cash":921970}],"officers":{"current":1,"resigned":25,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":1,"outstanding":1},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_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.","website":null,"links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/harbisonwalker-international","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/harbisonwalker-international/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/harbisonwalker-international/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00175893","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/harbisonwalker-international/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/harbisonwalker-international/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/harbisonwalker-international/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/harbisonwalker-international/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/harbisonwalker-international"}