CALDER LIMITED
Company number 01524351 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Calder Limited occupies a defensible niche within UK specialist machinery manufacturing, leveraging four decades of high-pressure engineering expertise and the backing of its Norwegian parent group. However, the financial trajectory is concerning: operating margins have compressed to 2.4% – well below the 5-10% sector benchmark – whilst revenue has stagnated in the £11-13M range, suggesting the business has reached a strategic plateau. The strong order backlog and energy transition opportunities provide credible growth potential for 2024, but realising this will require restoring margin discipline and resolving the competitive pricing pressures that have eroded profitability despite maintaining top-line stability.
Shareholders' funds
£7,673,038
Balance sheet as at 2023-12-31
What it does
the importation and distribution of specialist high pressure pumping equipment; and the design, build and service of bespoke high pressure pumping equipment.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1980-10-24
- Employees
- 50 (2023 accounts · was 52 in 2022)
- Registered office
- Unit 3 Prescott Drive, Worcester, WR4 9NE
- Postcode
- WR4 9NE
- Capital
- 135,100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 4 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
- 2025-09-25
- Next due by
- 2026-10-09
Nature of business (SIC)
- 28990 Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery not elsewhere classified
Officers 4 current · 10 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by BATTLEWOOD LIMITED — since 2025-12-22
Controlled by Pg Group Holdings As (ORG.NO932608103MVA) — since 2020-06-26
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA660105 (Tier 2), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- calder.co.uk
We are a UK-based manufacturer of high pressure pump packages, vacuum systems, compressors, and many standard and bespoke flow solutions.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| JEVIT LIMITED | 1984-07-03 |
| RAWFURN LIMITED | 1982-02-04 |
| TRENLET LIMITED | 1981-12-31 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| UNIT H GREGORYS BANK, WORCESTER, WORCESTERSHIRE, WR3 8AB | 2011-09-30 |
| GREGORYS BANK, WORCS, WR3 8AB | 2008-10-17 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 29 similar companies in WR
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (50 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1980.
Competitors Worcester
This company ranks 2 among manufacture of other special-purpose machinery not elsewhere classified in Worcester.
The class of 1980
49%
of the 8,850 companies incorporated in 1980 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2012-06-08
- Where
- Worcestershire
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WR141420 | Worcestershire | Leasehold | 2012-06-08 | — |
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