PROBAT LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£4,571,586
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company and group continued to be the design and manufacture of specialised machinery.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1974-03-18
- Employees
- 55 (2025 accounts · was 56 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Sir William Smith Road, Kirkton Industrial Estate, Arbroath, Angus, DD11 3RD
- Postcode
- DD11 3RD
- Capital
- 500,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 2 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
- 2026-07-18
- Next due by
- 2027-08-01
Nature of business (SIC)
- 28990 Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery not elsewhere classified
Officers 3 current · 7 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by Hamburg Dresdner Maschinefabriken Gmbh (00033047) — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Contact details
- Website
- macintyre.co.uk
PROBAT – global market and innovation leader in processing solutions for coffee, cocoa, chocolate, nuts, popcorn, and new food products.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| MACINTYRE CHOCOLATE SYSTEMS LIMITED | 2026-01-22 |
| LOW & DUFF (DEVELOPMENTS) LIMITED | 2017-09-23 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| CITYPOINT 65 HAYMARKET TERRACE, EDINBURGH, EH12 5HD | 2014-09-19 |
| SIR WILLIAM SMITH ROAD KIRKTON INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, ARBROATH, ANGUS, DD11 3RD, SCOTLAND | 2014-08-14 |
| SIR WILLIAM SMITH ROAD, KIRKTON INDUSTRIAL ESTAT, ARBROATH, ANGUS, DD11 3RD | 2011-08-17 |
| PEARCE AVENUE, WEST PITKERRO INDUST BROUGHTY, FERRY, DUNDEE, DD5 3RX | 1999-01-26 |
| TAYSIDE ENGINEERING WORKS, ANDERSON STREET, CARNOUSTIE, ANGUS DD7 7LZ | 1996-10-16 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 17 similar companies in DD — measured against the wider sector
2nd largest employer among its local peers (55 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1974.
The class of 1974
54%
of the 5,336 companies incorporated in 1974 are still active today; 39% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.