Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Colloids Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 05058123 · Manufacturing · 15 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2026

27days

their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period

Well behindvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

Self-reported figure from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 27 Feb 2004
Registered office: KIRKBY BANK ROAD, KIRKBY, L33 7SY

2 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 30–92 days. Reported average: 27.

Stated terms30–92d

-3 days

Reported avg27d

At a glance

The key figures

30–92d

their stated terms

92%

invoices paid outside terms

-5d

faster over the window

±4d

steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Faster than 91% of the 992 large companies reporting in manufacturing.

The pattern

Getting faster

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 30d

H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025H1 2026

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 64% 31–60 days 28% 61+ days 8%

The read · computed from their figures

Colloids Limited has filed 15 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2019). Their latest report puts the average at 27 days against stated terms of 30–92 days.

The direction is faster: from 32 to 27 days over the window — about 5 days faster.

In the latest period 92% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 8% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Standard payment terms vary according to the supplier. Colloids typically operate on 30 days from date of invoice but there are an array of payment terms ranging from 0 to 90 days.

Dispute resolution

Suppliers can contact the accounts team for any invoice or payment queries via email to [email protected]. If a satisfactory resolution is not found, this would be escalated to a Manager and/or Director in order to close the dispute in a fair and professional manner.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	27	92%	8%	19 Aug 2026
H2 2025	35	83%	15%	28 Jan 2026
H1 2025	34	81%	12%	18 Jul 2025
H2 2024	29	87%	8%	11 Feb 2025
H1 2024	32	75%	12%	19 Jul 2024
H2 2023	32	82%	14%	21 Feb 2024
H1 2023	31	80%	14%	14 Jul 2023
H2 2022	29	79%	10%	23 Jan 2023
H1 2022	27	89%	10%	2 Sept 2022
H2 2021	32	89%	15%	31 Jan 2022
H1 2021	34	89%	17%	31 Jan 2022
H2 2020	42	88%	25%	27 Jan 2021
H1 2020	48	90%	34%	29 Jul 2020
H2 2019	38	85%	20%	30 Jan 2020
H1 2019	44	86%	28%	19 Aug 2019

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 5 days faster over the window (32 → 27 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 27, moving within about ±4 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

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How UK payment reporting works

What is a Payment Practices Report?

UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.

What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?

The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.

How often is this data updated?

Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.

Is this official government data?

The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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