Advanced Custom Engineering Ltd enters creditors' voluntary liquidation
Advanced Custom Engineering Ltd, a Llanelli engineering services firm incorporated in 2017, has entered creditors' voluntary liquidation. Full notice and Companies House record.
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Advanced Custom Engineering Ltd, an engineering services firm registered at Unit 19 Ponthenry Industrial Estate in Llanelli, has entered creditors' voluntary liquidation. In a creditors' voluntary liquidation, the company's members resolve to wind up an insolvent business without a court order.
The Gazette published the notice on 2 June 2026. The company was incorporated on 11 July 2017 and operated from the Ponthenry Industrial Estate in Carmarthenshire under SIC codes covering manufacture of other products not elsewhere classified and other specialist construction activities.
The directors
Stephen William Cox has been a director of Advanced Custom Engineering Ltd since incorporation on 11 July 2017 and remains in post. Jonathan Michael Andrew Thomas was also appointed at incorporation but resigned on 22 September 2025, several months before the liquidation notice was published.
The liquidation
The notice records the nature of the business as engineering services and the type of liquidation as creditors' voluntary. The directors of an insolvent company ask its members to pass a winding-up resolution, appointing a licensed insolvency practitioner as liquidator to realise the company's assets and distribute the proceeds to creditors. No court order is required.
Advanced Custom Engineering Ltd filed its last accounts to 31 July 2024 on a total-exemption-full basis, the filing route available to companies that qualify as small under the Companies Act. The next accounts were due by 30 April 2026.
Secured charges
No secured charges are registered against Advanced Custom Engineering Ltd at Companies House, so there are no secured creditors holding a charge over the company's assets.
Background
The company held no prior trading names. Its registered address throughout its existence was Unit 19 Ponthenry Industrial Estate, Ponthenry, Llanelli, SA15 5RA. The bundle does not include the names of any appointed liquidators, and no further financial detail is available from the Gazette notice.
Common questions
Are you owed money by Advanced Custom Engineering Limited?
In a creditors' voluntary liquidation you are an unsecured creditor unless you hold a registered charge or retention of title. The liquidators will write to known creditors with a proof-of-debt form. A statement of affairs prepared by the directors and the chair of the creditors' decision procedure should be available on request. Read more about proof of debt and where you sit in the creditor hierarchy.
Did you work at Advanced Custom Engineering Limited?
In a CVL, employees are typically dismissed at or shortly after the liquidator's appointment. Wages owed up to a statutory cap, holiday pay, notice pay and redundancy may be claimable from the Redundancy Payments Service. The liquidators will normally provide RP1 case-reference numbers to the affected staff. See gov.uk: your rights if your employer is insolvent.
Do you hold a deposit, gift card or undelivered order from Advanced Custom Engineering Limited?
Customers with paid-but-undelivered orders, gift cards or deposits rank as unsecured creditors in the liquidation. Where you paid by credit card and the amount was over £100, Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 may let you claim from the card issuer for breach of contract or misrepresentation by the supplier; the rules apply per item, not per transaction, and the card must be a regulated credit card. Debit-card payments may be recoverable via chargeback.
Are you a director of a company connected to Advanced Custom Engineering Limited?
Section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 applies the moment the company enters liquidation. If you intend to be involved in another company using the same or a similar name within five years, you must rely on one of the three statutory exceptions and file the relevant notice. Acting in breach is a criminal offence and exposes you to personal liability for the successor's debts.
Sources
- The London Gazette notice (code Appointment of Liquidators)
- Companies House record 10859471
- Editorial standards: how we source and review; five-pass pipeline.
