HELANDER PRECISION ENGINEERING LIMITED
Company number 02739330 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Helander Precision Engineering is a medium-sized machining business undergoing significant restructuring under its parent, the Calder Group. The FY2025 results reveal a company that has endured a severe revenue contraction (32% decline to £5.0M) and operating losses, but has been recapitalised through an intercompany loan waiver that restored net assets from -£10.8M to +£2.6M. While the balance sheet repair provides a foundation, the business remains operationally challenged – its traditional O&G market faces structural headwinds, and promised A&D diversification has yet to deliver meaningful volume. The incoming management team's focus on margin improvement and customer selection in FY26 is the correct strategic response, but Helander remains a follower in a consolidating sector where scale and certification breadth increasingly determine competitive success.
Shareholders' funds
£2,588,953
Balance sheet as at 2025-05-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1992-08-13
- Employees
- 62 (2025 accounts · was 70 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Kennet Close, Tewkesbury Business Park, Northway Lane, Tewkesbury Glos, GL20 8HF
- Postcode
- GL20 8HF
- Capital
- 90 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-05-31
- Next due by
- 2027-02-28
- Financial year end
- 31 May
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-09
- Next due by
- 2027-08-23
Nature of business (SIC)
- 25620 Machining
- 28990 Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery not elsewhere classified
Officers 3 current · 23 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by DECA GROUP LIMITED — since 2025-05-21
Controlled by QUEENSLAND LIMITED — since 2016-08-09
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z9926374 (Tier 2), registered since 2007.
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Contact details
- Website
- helander.co.uk
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| UNIT 8. COTTESWOLD DAIRY,, NORTHWAY LANE,, TEWKESBURY,, GLOS. GL20 8JG | 2000-03-28 |
| 27 HOLYWELL HILL, ST ALBANS, HERTS, AL1 1EZ | 1992-09-21 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 42 similar companies in GL
2nd largest employer among its local peers (62 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1992.
Competitors Cheltenham
This company ranks 6 among machining in Cheltenham.
The class of 1992
49%
of the 21,839 companies incorporated in 1992 are still active today; 46% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Leasehold
- 2
- Most recent registration
- 2012-10-10
- Where
- Gloucestershire (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR367457 | Gloucestershire | Leasehold | 2012-10-10 | — |
| GR293399 | Gloucestershire | Leasehold | 2006-05-11 | — |
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