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Company description
CASTINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Public Limited Company”. Incorporated on 9 January 1907; registered for 119 years; registered office reported in WEST MIDLANDS. Its primary declared activity is 24510 · Casting of iron.
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01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- CASTINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
- Company number
- 00091580
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 March 2025Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
12 December 2025Next statement due
26 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 35.3%
- Mean bonus gap
- 12.3%
- Women receiving bonus
- 100.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 100.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 3.7%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 3.6%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 13.3%
- Women in lower quartile
- 7.2%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 250 to 49914.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4997.7% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4994.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-2.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-14.7% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49912.7% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49912.7% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 April 2023 – 30 September 2023
- Filed
- 28 February 2024
- Shortest standard term
- 45 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 78.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
N/A
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
30 days from end of month of invoice (i.e. 45 days credit on average)
43 days from the end of month of invoice (i.e. 58 days credit on average) - Other payment-term information
N/A
- Dispute resolution process
Disputes are resolved by active discussion between the supplier, the accounts payable team and, where necessary, the operational manager who requested the goods or services.
Earlier payment reports (3 shown)
- 49.0 average days to pay58.0% outside terms
- 52.0 average days to pay52.0% outside terms
- 52.0 average days to pay53.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
CASTINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
LEI 2138004LKVACAUE94W70 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- B6ES
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 9 January 1907
- Initial LEI registration
- 3 February 2014
- LEI last updated
- 9 December 2025
- Next renewal
- 3 February 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- LICHFIELD RD., BROWNHILLS, GB-WLL, WS8 6JZ, GB
- Headquarters address
- LICHFIELD RD., BROWNHILLS, GB-WLL, WS8 6JZ, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NATURAL_PERSONS
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NATURAL_PERSONS
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06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- CASTINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
- Group submission
- Yes
- Statement period
- 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Approved
- 17 August 2026
- Sectors
- Automotive, machinery and heavy electrical equipment Other
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 17 August 2026
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07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No PSC entry for this company was present in the imported snapshot.
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08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
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09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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12 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
15 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
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