Financials
- Fiscal year
- 2025
- Turnover
- €5.69bn
- Profit
- €174.7m
- Solvency
- 42.0%
Turnover▼ 11.8%
Net result
20182025
BASF Antwerpen
ActiveSummary
BASF Antwerpen has been active since 1964 and the Belgian State Gazette contains no insolvency or warning signals. The 2025 annual accounts show equity of €998.9m and a net result of €174.7m. Equity is shrinking by ~18.9% per year and would, assuming unchanged policy, indicatively turn negative around fiscal year 2026. Its solvency ranks better than 37% of 291 sector peers (fiscal year 2025). The computed 12-month bankruptcy probability is 0.1% (very low).
Overview
What they do
Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products
NACE 20140NACE 24140
#1 employer in Belgium, Chemicals sector2 sites
How big
€5.69bnturnover 2025
- Staff
- 3,640.9 FTE
- Equity
- €998.9m
- Profit
- €174.7m
Who decides
- Parent
- BASF SE
- Board
- 7 members
- Holdings
- 8
Auditor: DELOITTE Bedrijfsrevisoren BVAccounts 88 d early
Why 69- Multiple establishment units+ Long track record+ Annual accounts: healthy financial profile+ Lower-failure-rate sector+ Lower-risk legal formLatest accounts filed on timeShow the evidence
Checked score
Score 2025
Axes · tick = 2024
Profitability76▼-5
Solvency67▲+5
Growth30▼-2
Track record100
Bankruptcy probability, 12 months
0.1%
Very low
0%0.5%1.5%4%10%≥ 25%
Credit up to €2,000,000 at 30 days acceptable
Liquidity tight (current ratio 1.12 against 1.49 in 2024; short-term debt: 45.5% and cash: 0% of total assets), and 58% of the assets are financed with debt.
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Signals
Six signals. The signal on the left, the evidence on the right.
−lowers risk+raises risk○neutral
lowers risk · Long track record
A company with a long track record statistically fails less often than a young one.
KBO · incorporation dateAge against the risk zone
lowers risk · Annual accounts: healthy financial profile
The latest annual accounts show a healthy profile in solvency, result and liquidity.
NBB · annual accounts 2025Solvency, return and age of the figures
Solvency
42%
Return on assets
7.3%
Age of the figures
9 mo
lowers risk · Lower-failure-rate sector
In this sector companies fail less often than the Belgian average.
Gazette · bankruptcies per sector, NACE 20
Relative position
BE, all sectors
reference
Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products (NACE 20)
about 43% fewer bankruptcies
← fewer bankruptcies
more bankruptcies →
neutral · Latest accounts filed on time
The financial year that closed on 31-12-2025 was due by 31-07-2026 and was filed on 04-05-2026, 88 days ahead of the deadline.
NBB · 10 filingsDeviation from the deadline
2025
88 d early
2024
86 d early
2023
99 d early
2022
83 d early
2021
87 d early
2020
96 d early
2019
74 d late
← before the deadline
after the deadline →
tick = median of all Belgian filingsring = median in the sector
This company filed its last 7 accounts on average 66 days before the deadline; the sector median for financial year 2024 is 22 days before the deadline, and 27% of the sector filed late.
Checked, nothing found (2)
neutral · The next deadline is still running
The next financial year closes on 31-12-2026 and is due by 31-07-2027. Nothing is late today. Usually files around 5 May (5 of the last 5 filed years within 30 days of that day).
Companies Code · seven monthsPosition in the running window
02-10-2026 today31-12-2026 close31-07-2027 deadline
- Resignations & appointmentsPower of attorney
- Annual accounts filedfiscal year 2025 · full…
- Resignations: Stefanie Demming, Peter Schwab and…Appointments: Carla Thoelen, Elza Paredis…
Key points
- Positive: Employer in Belgium, Chemicals sectorin the Checked rankings #1 View
- Caution: Result fell in 2025from €501.1m to €174.7m ▼ 65.1% View
- Board changedlatest change 01-01-2026 · 7 in office 12 joined · 3 left View
- Controlled by BASF SEknown shareholders 100% parent View
- Positive: Always filed on timeaccounts within the deadline every year 6 years View
- Positive: 6 profitable years in a rowprofit 2025: €174.7m 6 years View
- Active since 1964founded 10-12-1964 61 years View
- EU supportawarded 2022 €169.8m View
By topic
Board & ownership
- Board
- 7 members
- Parent
- BASF SE
- Known shareholders
- 100%
- Auditor
- DELOITTE Bedrijfsrevisoren BV
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Network & group
- Subsidiaries
- 6
- Holdings
- 8
- Connected companies
- 38
- Mergers and contributions
- 3
8 holdings
Timeline
- Events
- 57
- Since
- 2004
- Next accounts
- by 31-07-2027
- 05-06-2026Resignations & appointments
- 04-05-2026Annual accounts filed
- 02-01-2026Resignations: Stefanie Demming, Peter Schwab and 2…
Company details
- Sites
- 2
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Activity
- Manufacture of chemicals and chemical productsNACE 20140
- Founded
- 10-12-1964
- Year ends
- 31-12
- Peppol
- Reachable for e-invoices
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