HEIMBACH UK LIMITED
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Executive summary
Heimbach UK is undergoing an existential strategic transformation—from a 225-year heritage manufacturer to a regional sales and service office within the Albany International group—driven by unsustainable manufacturing economics and secular demand decline. The financial trajectory is alarming: profitability has fallen 92% year-on-year, with margins compressed to near-breakeven levels, while the undefined intercompany remuneration model for the post-2026 structure leaves the entity's future economic contribution uncertain. The critical imperative is securing a transfer pricing and remuneration framework that sustains the UK operation as a viable commercial hub, while managing asset write-downs and pension obligations through the transition.
Shareholders' funds
£6,969,474
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company was the manufacture and sale of woven synthetic forming fabrics for paper machines. All sales are made to group companies.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1898-01-24
- Employees
- 88 (2024 accounts · was 92 in 2023)
- Registered office
- Bradnor Road, Wythenshawe, Manchester, M22 4TS
- Postcode
- M22 4TS
- Capital
- 500,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-02-28
- Financial year end
- 31 May
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-05-16
- Next due by
- 2027-05-30
Nature of business (SIC)
- 13960 Manufacture of other technical and industrial textiles
Officers 3 current · 29 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by Heimbach Gmbh (HRB85) — since 2024-05-17
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| HEIMBACH UK (HOLDINGS) LIMITED | 2002-01-23 |
| HEIMBACH UK LIMITED | 2000-02-14 |
| C H JOHNSON LIMITED | 1999-09-24 |
| C.H. JOHNSON & SONS LIMITED | 1990-03-14 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 11 similar companies in M
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (88 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1898.
Competitors Manchester
This company ranks 1 among manufacture of other technical and industrial textiles in Manchester.