Administration · 4 June 2025
Elements (Europe)
Specialist trade · Telford · West Midlands
What happened
ELEMENTS (EUROPE) LIMITED (company number 05586163), incorporated in 2005, entered administration on 4 June 2025. Its status at Companies House is now: administration.
Why it failed
Heavy losses from cost overruns and water ingress defects on two main contractor projects were funded by the majority shareholder until it stopped; a sale process drew no offers.
- Main reason: Losses on contracts
- Legal claims
- Cash flow
- Funding withdrawn
- Group company failed
- Sale or investment failed
Our summary of the reasons given in the administrators' proposals. These record the administrators' and directors' account of what happened.
An administrator, a licensed insolvency practitioner, takes control of the company to try to rescue it, sell the business or get a better result for creditors than a liquidation.
Timeline
The last accounts and payment report before the failure, then what happened, with the time between each.
31 December 2023
Last accounts filed were made up to this date
18 months later
4 June 2025
Administration started
AccountsPayment reportInsolvency
Before it failed
Key figures
- Owed to suppliers and subcontractors (estimated), as at 4 June 2025
- £8.7m
- HMRC owed £399k. Expected return to unsecured creditors: uncertain
- Administrators' proposals (trade creditors only; its parent was also owed £72m in shareholder loans)
The last accounts filed were full accounts made up to 31 December 2023, 17 months before it went into administration.
The full filing history, including any late filings, charges and director changes, is on Companies House.
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