ACE FILTRATION LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

01734727 · ltd · incorporated 1983-06-27

Investment thesis

Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.

Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.

Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 42.4y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jul 2025

Net worth

£588.3k

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 13950

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · oldest 42.4y

65/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 42.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

11 officers (6 active, 11 linked, 9 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

119 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £588,276

Cash YoY

+12%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£194k

↑ 12% YoY

Net Worth

£588k

↑ 4.3% YoY

Current Assets

£1.0m

↑ 1.8% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-07-31	2024-07-31
Total assets	£841.7k	£872.4k
Current assets	£1.00M	£986.4k
Cash	£194.1k	£173.0k
Debtors	£525.3k	£533.4k
Net assets	£588.3k	£564.2k

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

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2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

• 3 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 accounts

Last 90 days

filings

• 3 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 3 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (36 events)Click to expand

2026-05-19
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2026-04-28
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2022-09-27
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2022-05-10
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JESSIMAN, Leigh John appointed
director
2022-04-30
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2021-04-06
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2020-04-02
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2018-12-18
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capital · SH01
2018-07-31
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GARDNER, Peter resigned
director
2017-11-06
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COWELL, Caroline Elaine appointed
director
2017-11-06
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THAIN, David Alan appointed
director
2013-11-01
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THAIN, Anita Janine appointed
secretary
2013-10-31
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COWELL, Margaret Anne resigned
secretary
2013-10-31
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COWELL, Margaret Anne resigned
director
2006-02-27
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COWELL, Roger Housden resigned
director
2004-11-16
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Charge satisfied #1
2000-04-05
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MOON, Richard Bruce resigned
director
2000-01-01
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GARDNER, Peter appointed
director
1999-08-01
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COWELL, Rex Jonathan appointed
director
1999-08-01
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THAIN, Anita Janine appointed
director
1993-01-26
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MOON, Richard Bruce appointed
director
1992-02-14
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Charge satisfied #3
1986-03-20
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1986-01-07
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1983-12-06
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1983-06-27
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Company incorporated
As ACE FILTRATION LIMITED

Owner dependency

66/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 43 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Anita Janine Thain Individual · British · DOB 04/1969 · age 57	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	30/06/2016
Mr Rex Jonathan Cowell Individual · British · DOB 09/1966 · age 60	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	30/06/2016

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mrs Margaret Anne Cowellceased 02/04/2026· 75-100% shares

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1983-06-27

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC13950 — SIC 13950

Registered office

Air Flow Works Seymour Road

Northfleet

Gravesend

DA11 7BW

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-08

Last: 2025-07-25