Fertilizers and nitrogen compounds
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
1515
Active companies
846
Formed in latest 12 months
249
Median active-company age
1.9 years
Revenue known
3
Importers
42
Exporters
31
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 1,515 |
| Active companies | 846 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 249 |
| Importers | 42 |
| Exporters | 31 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 3 known, 843 unknown (0.4%).
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 | 178 |
| 2026-01 | 69 | 7 |
| 2026-02 | 5 | 8 |
| 2026-03 | 15 | 18 |
| 2026-04 | 11 | 19 |
| 2026-05 | 9 | 27 |
| 2026-06 | 16 | 15 |
| 2026-07 | 13 | 27 |
| 2026-08 | 23 | 13 |
| 2026-09 | 12 | 29 |
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 | 665 |
| Active | 488 |
| Dormant | 358 |
| Liquidation | 4 |
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 | 206 |
| Inner London - West | 154 |
| West Midlands | 115 |
| Outer London - South | 72 |
| Shropshire and Staffordshire | 33 |
| Greater Manchester | 27 |
| South East Wales | 27 |
| Outer London - East and North East | 25 |
| Inner London - East | 18 |
| Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 14 |
Geography coverage: 843 known, 3 unknown (99.6%).
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 | 79 |
| 1m-15m | 49 |
| 15m-54m | 5 |
| 54m+ | 15 |
Revenue-range coverage: 148 known, 698 unknown (17.5%).
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 | 50 |
| Small | 72 |
| Medium | 2 |
| Large | 15 |
| Holding | 5 |
| Dormant | 358 |
Company-size coverage: 502 known, 344 unknown (59.3%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 39 |
| 1–9 | 62 |
| 10–49 | 12 |
| 50–249 | 1 |
Employee coverage: 114 known, 732 unknown (13.5%).
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 | 245 |
| 1–3 years | 336 |
| 3–5 years | 108 |
| 5–10 years | 70 |
| 10–20 years | 44 |
| 20+ years | 43 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 846 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 |
|---|---|
| 20150 | 846 |
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 | 19 |
| Exporter only | 8 |
| Both | 23 |
| Neither | 796 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 28 | £7,597,335,414 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 31 — Fertilizers | 24 | £660,072,046 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 19 | £3,286,145,086 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 38 — Miscellaneous chemical products | 18 | £989,034,266 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 28 — Inorganic Chemicals | 15 | £79,049,750 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 15 | £4,823,097,589 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 73 — Iron or Steel Products | 13 | £915,237,243 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 12 | £1,066,356,223 | 2017-06-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 29 — Organic Chemicals | 11 | £141,080,536 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 34 — Soaps, cleaning products, and waxes | 11 | £291,626,470 | 2017-10-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 — Fertilizers | 26 | £235,080,462 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 38 — Miscellaneous chemical products | 18 | £743,873,386 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 34 — Soaps, cleaning products, and waxes | 15 | £285,772,738 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 15 | £1,327,224,490 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 28 — Inorganic Chemicals | 13 | £53,622,648 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 29 — Organic Chemicals | 11 | £17,214,678 | 2016-02-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 11 | £786,107,256 | 2017-07-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 25 — Salt, sulphur, earths, stone, plaster, lime, and cement | 10 | £13,758,457 | 2018-05-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 32 — Tanning and dyeing products | 8 | £74,321,547 | 2016-05-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 7 | £657,503,252 | 2017-03-01 – 2026-04-01 |
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 | 16 | 775 | 71 | 91.6% |
| Holding company | 1 | 775 | 71 | 91.6% |
| Solo founder | 662 | 775 | 71 | 91.6% |
| Ecommerce | 2 | 33 | 813 | 3.9% |
| Website | 39 | 39 | 807 | 4.6% |
| 34 | 39 | 807 | 4.6% |
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 |
|---|---|
| Top Blue Limited | £14,978,074 |
| Central Pharma Biotechnica Limited | £562,944 |
| Taproot Dynamics Ltd | £0 |
Revenue coverage: 3 known, 843 unknown (0.4%).
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 |
|---|---|
| Perfumes, toiletry & cosmetics | 3,035 |
| Other chemical products n.e.c. | 1,568 |
| Soap and detergents | 1,069 |
| Paints, coatings, mastics and sealants | 641 |
| Pesticides & other agrochemicals | 563 |
| Cleaning and polishing products | 515 |
| Other organic basic chemicals | 442 |
| Essential oils | 393 |
| Plastics in primary forms | 385 |
| Other inorganic basic chemicals | 370 |
| Industrial gases | 195 |
| Dyes and pigments | 154 |
| Printing ink | 114 |
| Glues | 105 |
| Man-made fibres | 71 |
| Synthetic rubber in primary forms | 42 |
| Explosives | 25 |
SIC classification
SIC 20150 — Manufacture of fertilizers and nitrogen compounds
Includes
manufacture of fertilisers:, straight or complex nitrogenous, phosphatic or potassic fertilisers, urea, crude natural phosphates and crude natural potassium salts, manufacture of associated nitrogen products: nitric and sulphonitric acids, ammonia, ammonium chloride, ammonium carbonate, nitrites and nitrates of potassium, manufacture of potting soil with peat as main constituent, manufacture of potting soil mixtures of natural soil, sand, clays and minerals
Excludes
mining of guano, see ##08.91, manufacture of agrochemical products, such as pesticides, see ##20.20
Details
This class includes the manufacture of resins, plastics materials, and non-vulcanisable thermoplastic elastomers , the mixing and blending of resins on a custom basis, as well as the manufacture of non-customised synthetic resins.