MECHATHERM INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Company overview
- Incorporation date
- 9 May 1973
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Jurisdiction
- England/Wales
- Can file
- Yes
The company's assets
Any sale of this company's assets, including an auction, is arranged by the insolvency practitioner handling the case, as named in its Gazette notices.
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PwC LLP
If this company owes you money
A claim is made to the person handling the insolvency, not to Financial Pages, which is a company-information service and cannot register a claim. The office-holders named in the Gazette notices are listed above.
Tell them you are owed money. GOV.UK says a creditor owed more than £1,000 submits a Proof of Debt form, and a creditor owed £1,000 or less gives the person handling the case their contact details and the amount.
Money reaches other creditors only once the assets sold have covered the costs of the insolvency and any secured creditors, so a claim may return part of the debt or none of it.
Source: GOV.UK, Register as a creditor in a bankruptcy or liquidation, and its guidance for creditors, read 1 November 2026.
Insolvency notices
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27 July 2026
Appointment of Administrators
PwC LLP
Read the notice →
Contains data from The Gazette, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
What the records show
MECHATHERM INTERNATIONAL LIMITED is a private limited company incorporated on 9 May 1973, with its registered office in Leeds. Companies House lists its business as manufacture of ovens, furnaces and furnace burners. Its most recent accounts were made up to 29 February 2024. Its next accounts, due by 29 July 2026, are overdue.
On 27 July 2026 The Gazette published a notice headed “Appointment of Administrators”, naming a practitioner of PwC LLP.
In the 12 months before its first insolvency notice, Companies House recorded 5 directors leaving (latest 2 July 2026), 5 directors appointed and accounts filed on 27 August 2025. It has 12 outstanding charges, held by Barclays Bank PLC. It has 3 serving directors.
An administrator's first aim, under the Insolvency Act 1986, is rescuing the company as a going concern; if that is not reasonably practicable, a better result for creditors than an immediate winding-up; and failing both, realising property to pay secured or preferential creditors. Source
Drawn only from the company's Gazette notices and its Companies House record. It records what was filed and published, not why.
Registered office address
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP, 8th Floor, Central Square 29 Wellington Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 4DL
Industry classification (SIC codes)
Previous company names
MECHATHERM LEYS ENGINEERING LIMITED
31 December 1976 - 31 December 1980
LEYS CONSULTANTS LIMITED
9 May 1973 - 31 December 1976
Officers & directors (18)
ALLEN, Lee Anthony
Director
Appointed: 8 July 2026
EMES, Christopher Bryan
Director
Appointed: 8 July 2026
LANGHAM, Martin
Director
Appointed: 8 July 2026
BURROWS, Alan Robert
Secretary
Appointed: 1 July 2024 • Resigned: 31 July 2025
BURROWS, Alan Robert
Secretary
Appointed: N/A • Resigned: 23 April 2021
DOBSON, Nicola Ann
Secretary
Appointed: 23 April 2021 • Resigned: 1 July 2024
ALLEN, Lee Anthony
Director
Appointed: 16 June 2026 • Resigned: 1 July 2026
ALLEN, Mark Andrew
Director
Appointed: 3 April 2019 • Resigned: 10 June 2026
ALLEN, Stuart Keith
Director
Appointed: 30 September 2018 • Resigned: 24 July 2025
BURROWS, Alan Robert
Director
Appointed: 9 February 1994 • Resigned: 31 July 2025
Recent filing history (173)
Appointment of an administrator
Insolvency • Form AM01
Statement of affairs with form AM02SOA
Insolvency • Form AM02
Notice of deemed approval of proposals
Insolvency • Form AM06
Statement of administrator's proposal
Insolvency • Form AM03
Registered office address changed from Haden House Waterfall Lane Trading Estate Cradley Heath West Midlands B64 6PU England to 8th Floor, Central Square 29 Wellington Street Leeds West Yorkshire LS1 4DL on 7 August 2026
Address • Form AD01
Appointment of an administrator
Insolvency • Form AM01
Appointment of Mr Lee Anthony Allen as a director on 8 July 2026
Officers • Form AP01
Appointment of Mr Martin Langham as a director on 8 July 2026
Officers • Form AP01
Appointment of Mr Christopher Bryan Emes as a director on 8 July 2026
Officers • Form AP01
Termination of appointment of Martin Langham as a director on 1 July 2026
Officers • Form TM01
Termination of appointment of Christopher Bryan Emes as a director on 1 July 2026
Officers • Form TM01
Termination of appointment of Lee Anthony Allen as a director on 1 July 2026
Officers • Form TM01
Appointment of Mr Lee Anthony Allen as a director on 16 June 2026
Officers • Form AP01
Termination of appointment of Mark Andrew Allen as a director on 10 June 2026
Officers • Form TM01
Current accounting period shortened from 30 April 2025 to 29 April 2025
Accounts • Form AA01
Persons with significant control (3)
Platinum Equity Holdings Ltd
Corporate entity
Notified: 12 October 2024
Mr Christopher Bryan Emes
Individual
Notified: 30 June 2024
Mr Andrew Frederick Riley
Individual
Notified: 6 April 2016
Charges & mortgages (14)
A registered charge
Barclays Bank PLC
Created: 28 May 2025 • Delivered: 2 June 2025
A registered charge
Barclays Bank PLC
Created: 31 March 2025 • Delivered: 2 April 2025
A registered charge
Barclays Bank PLC
Created: 26 March 2025 • Delivered: 27 March 2025
A registered charge
Barclays Bank PLC
Created: 22 January 2025 • Delivered: 27 January 2025
A registered charge
Barclays Bank PLC
Created: 13 November 2020 • Delivered: 18 November 2020
A registered charge
Barclays Bank PLC
Created: 27 June 2017 • Delivered: 6 July 2017
A registered charge
Barclays Bank PLC
Created: 27 June 2017 • Delivered: 6 July 2017
Deed of charge over credit balances
Barclays Bank PLC
Created: 19 April 1995 • Delivered: 1 May 1995
Debenture
Barclays Bank PLC
Created: 19 April 1995 • Delivered: 26 April 1995
Deed of charge over credit balances
Barclays Bank PLC
Created: 6 January 1994 • Delivered: 17 January 1994
Insolvency history
In administration
Administration started: 24 July 2026
Practitioners:
Edward Williams - 1 Chamberlain Square
Helen Laura Wheeler-Jones - 1 Chamberlain Square
Timothy Andrew Higgins - Pricewaterhousecoopers Llp 1 Chamberlain Square
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Accounts
Next due: 29 July 2026
OVERDUEConfirmation statement
Next due: 26 February 2027