{"name":"COLUMBIA PRECISION LIMITED","company_number":"01621737","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"1982-03-12","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"140 Cheston Road, Aston, Birmingham, B7 5EH","postcode":"B7 5EH","sic_codes":[{"code":25620,"description":"Machining"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Total Exemption Full","year_end":"31 March","last_made_up_to":"2025-03-31","next_due":"2026-12-31"},"employees":{"count":37,"accounts_date":"2025-03-31"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2025-03-31","net_assets":5259877,"cash":672037,"average_employees":37},{"financial_date":"2024-03-31","profit_loss":389615,"net_assets":5095581,"cash":605420,"average_employees":37},{"financial_date":"2023-03-31","net_assets":4945966,"cash":873746},{"financial_date":"2022-03-31","net_assets":5120270,"cash":551987},{"financial_date":"2021-03-31","net_assets":5360956,"cash":773467}],"officers":{"current":5,"resigned":4,"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":6,"outstanding":4},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"Columbia Precision Limited is a 43-year-old West Midlands subcontract machinist (SIC 25620) that is financially stronger than the typical UK SME peer — essentially debt-free, with a 5.3x current ratio, £672k cash and FY2025 profit up 29% to £504k, implying a ~9.6% return on net assets that sits mid-to-upper quartile for the sector. Its principal vulnerabilities are sector-typical: an ageing, ~73%-depreciated machine base funded at only 0.24x depreciation, £2.8m of net assets tied up in intercompany debtors, and heavy exposure to a West Midlands automotive supply chain undergoing EV-driven restructuring. Overall it reads as a conservatively managed, cash-extractive niche player — resilient but underinvested relative to the automation-led leaders reshaping UK precision machining.","website":"http://www.columbiaprecision.co.uk","links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/columbia-precision","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/columbia-precision/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/columbia-precision/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01621737","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/columbia-precision/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/columbia-precision/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/columbia-precision/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/columbia-precision/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/columbia-precision"}