Chemical and fertilizer minerals
UK companies organised by the CorpSignals industry, segment, and subsegment taxonomy.
Company snapshot
What this shows: the size and current activity of this classification, plus recent formations, company age, revenue coverage, and trade participation.
All companies
1195
Active companies
488
Formed in latest 12 months
219
Median active-company age
1.4 years
Revenue known
1
Importers
4
Exporters
3
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 1,195 |
| Active companies | 488 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 219 |
| Importers | 4 |
| Exporters | 3 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 1 known, 487 unknown (0.2%).
Company formations
What this shows: monthly incorporations and dissolutions from 1 January 2024, including companies of every current status.
Latest ten months shown in the chart
| Month | Formed | Dissolved |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-12 | 23 | 266 |
| 2026-01 | 93 | 7 |
| 2026-02 | 7 | 6 |
| 2026-03 | 13 | 15 |
| 2026-04 | 4 | 15 |
| 2026-05 | 7 | 25 |
| 2026-06 | 11 | 6 |
| 2026-07 | 5 | 21 |
| 2026-08 | 15 | 8 |
| 2026-09 | 7 | 38 |
Window: 2024-01 to 2026-09.
Company status
What this shows: all current Companies House status values. Companies House Active records with dormant accounts are shown as Dormant; the remaining Companies House Active records are shown as Active. Blank and missing values are combined as Unknown.
Top values shown in the chart
| Status | Companies |
|---|---|
| Dissolved | 706 |
| Active | 285 |
| Dormant | 203 |
| Liquidation | 1 |
Active companies by UK region
What this shows: active companies with a known ITL2 region. The UK map falls back to a bar chart if map data cannot be loaded.
Top values shown in the chart
| ITL2 region | Companies |
|---|---|
| Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | 183 |
| West Midlands | 88 |
| South East Wales | 44 |
| Outer London - South | 41 |
| Inner London - West | 38 |
| Inner London - East | 18 |
| Greater Manchester | 14 |
| Shropshire and Staffordshire | 11 |
| North Yorkshire | 8 |
| Devon | 5 |
Geography coverage: 487 known, 1 unknown (99.8%).
Revenue ranges
What this shows: active companies grouped into the platform’s ordered estimated-revenue bands.
Top values shown in the chart
| Revenue range | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0-1m | 23 |
| 1m-15m | 2 |
| 54m+ | 4 |
Revenue-range coverage: 29 known, 459 unknown (5.9%).
Company size and employees
What this shows: active companies by published size category and by reported employee count.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company size | Companies |
|---|---|
| Micro | 13 |
| Small | 8 |
| Large | 4 |
| Holding | 6 |
| Dormant | 203 |
Company-size coverage: 234 known, 254 unknown (48.0%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 13 |
| 1–9 | 7 |
Employee coverage: 20 known, 468 unknown (4.1%).
Active-company age
What this shows: how long currently active companies have been incorporated.
Top values shown in the chart
| Age band | Companies |
|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 192 |
| 1–3 years | 184 |
| 3–5 years | 66 |
| 5–10 years | 27 |
| 10–20 years | 16 |
| 20+ years | 3 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 488 known, 0 unknown (100.0%).
Classification breakdown
What this shows: active companies across the next taxonomy level; direct assignments are labelled separately. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Directly assigned to this segment | 488 |
International trade
What this shows: active-company participation in imports and exports, followed by the ten HS2 categories involving the most distinct companies.
Top values shown in the chart
| Trade participation | Companies |
|---|---|
| Importer only | 1 |
| Both | 3 |
| Neither | 484 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 4 | £4,727,697,773 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 94 — Furniture, Lighting, and Prefabricated Buildings | 4 | £74,051,194 | 2020-03-01 – 2025-08-01 |
| 31 — Fertilizers | 3 | £2,422,325 | 2022-02-01 – 2023-07-01 |
| 40 — Rubber and rubber products | 3 | £217,048,063 | 2022-03-01 – 2026-04-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 3 | £562,788,891 | 2022-02-01 – 2026-04-01 |
| 76 — Aluminum and aluminum products | 3 | £36,062,842 | 2022-04-01 – 2023-06-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 3 | £3,348,071,612 | 2016-11-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 3 | £512,504,023 | 2016-12-01 – 2026-03-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 2 | £183,034,586 | 2022-02-01 – 2024-11-01 |
| 62 — Clothing and accessories, not knitted or crocheted | 2 | £16,104,074 | 2022-02-01 – 2025-07-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 — Fertilizers | 3 | £25,852,774 | 2019-04-01 – 2023-07-01 |
| 42 — Leather goods, travel bags, and animal harnesses | 2 | £871,890 | 2022-03-01 – 2022-12-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 2 | £169,376,951 | 2017-04-01 – 2024-11-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 2 | £26,418,516 | 2022-03-01 – 2023-03-01 |
| 49 — Printed materials like books, newspapers, and pictures | 1 | £20,304,388 | 2019-10-01 – 2019-10-01 |
| 82 — Basic metal tools and utensils | 1 | £1,654,444 | 2023-07-01 – 2023-07-01 |
Business and digital traits
What this shows: active companies identified with selected ownership, business-model, and online-presence traits.
Values shown in the chart with data coverage
| Trait | Companies | Known | Unknown | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family business | 2 | 460 | 28 | 94.3% |
| Holding company | 0 | 460 | 28 | 94.3% |
| Solo founder | 434 | 460 | 28 | 94.3% |
| Ecommerce | 0 | 3 | 485 | 0.6% |
| Website | 3 | 4 | 484 | 0.8% |
| 4 | 4 | 484 | 0.8% |
Leading active companies
What this shows: the ten active companies with the highest non-missing revenue, with company number used as the deterministic tie-breaker.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company | Revenue |
|---|---|
| Soda World Ltd | £190,586,089 |
Revenue coverage: 1 known, 487 unknown (0.2%).
Related classifications
What this shows: sibling classifications ranked by distinct active companies, excluding the current node. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Exploration, draining, other support | 1,064 |
| Other (not elsewhere classified) | 942 |
| Ornamental and building stone, limestone, gypsum, chalk and slate | 468 |
| Non-ferrous metals | 425 |
| Gravel, sand, clay, kaolin | 352 |
| Iron ores | 85 |
| Coal | 77 |
| Salt | 29 |
| Peat | 14 |
| Lignite | 13 |
| Uranium / thorium ores | 13 |
SIC classification
SIC 08910 — Mining of chemical and fertilizer minerals
Includes
mining of natural phosphates and natural potassium salts, mining of native sulphur, extraction and preparation of pyrites and pyrrhotite, except roasting, mining of natural barium sulphate and carbonate (barytes and witherite), natural borates, natural magnesium sulphates (kieserite), mining of earth colours, fluorspar and other minerals valued chiefly as a source of chemicals, guano mining
Excludes
extraction of salt, see ##08.93, roasting of iron pyrites, see ##20.13, manufacture of synthetic fertilisers and nitrogen compounds, see ##20.15