LESS COMMON METALS LIMITED
Company number 02690088 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Less Common Metals Limited maintains a sound capital structure with adequate liquidity and shareholder equity; however, operational profitability pressures and significant market risks related to raw material sourcing require close monitoring. The company’s strategic initiatives to diversify supply sources and secure funding are positive signs for long-term resilience. Investors should seek further clarity on cash flow dynamics and detailed mitigation of geopolitical supply risks.
Shareholders' funds
£5,936,311
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of the manufacture and sale of rare earth-based alloys, either by Vacuum Induction Melting or Co-reduction and the production of light rare earth metals by molten salt electrolysis. The company's main products are samarium cobalt and neodymium iron boron alloys, both for permanent magnet applications. Such magnets are used, for example in automotive, power generation and electronic industries.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1992-02-24
- Employees
- 39 (2024 accounts · was 45 in 2023)
- Registered office
- Unit 2 Hooton Park, North Road, Ellesmere Port, England, CH65 1BL
- Postcode
- CH65 1BL
- Capital
- 80,790 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 6 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-02-24
- Next due by
- 2027-03-10
Nature of business (SIC)
- 24450 Other non-ferrous metal production
Officers 6 current · 34 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by LCMG LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z7667883 (Tier 1), registered since 2003.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- lesscommonmetals.com
Less Common Metals is a world leader in rare earth metals, offering laboratory analysis, cast products, raw materials, and more. Discover our innovative services now
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| ISSUEDART LIMITED | 1992-04-08 |
Previous registered addresses 6
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| SALISBURY HOUSE STATION ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB1 2LA | 2015-11-03 |
| VALLEY ROAD BUSINESS PARK VALLEY ROAD, BIRKENHEAD, MERSEYSIDE, CH41 7ED, UNITED KINGDOM | 2010-04-09 |
| VALLEY ROAD BUSINESS PARK, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 7ED | 2009-03-02 |
| SALISBURY HOUSE, STATION ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, CB1 2LA | 2008-07-08 |
| 5 MORTIMER STREET, HAMILTON SQUARE, BIRKENHEAD, MERSEYSIDE L41 5EW | 1996-02-21 |
| 2 BACHES STREET, LONDON, N1 6UB | 1992-04-10 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 17 similar companies in CH — measured against the wider sector
The largest employer among its local peers (39 staff).
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1992.
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
- 2022-11-18
- Price paid, where recorded
- £325,000
- Where
- Cheshire West And Chester (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH103362 | Cheshire West And Chester | Leasehold | 2022-11-18 | £325,000 |
| CH607720 | Cheshire West And Chester | Leasehold | 2011-11-22 | — |
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