Result
The result fell in 2025: merger with EXPAN CHEMICALS.
The result fell in 2025: merger with EXPAN CHEMICALS.
In 2025, 33 people joined and 31 left. On top of that, 3.3 agency workers worked there on average.
Manuchar pays its suppliers 24 days earlier than in 2024. Customers pay 30 days earlier.
The last five annual accounts were filed 0 to 124 days before the end of the period.
A director left. Latest change 16-06-2026 · 4 in office.
The dashed line is the sector median: 0.2% across 745 companies (NACE 46, medium-sized).
About 2 in 1,000 comparable companies go bankrupt within 12 months (an estimate).
The band follows from the bankruptcy probability. 10 more points roughly halve it.
| 75-100 | Excellent | under 0.55% |
| 60-74 | Healthy | 0.55% to 1.5% |
| 45-59 | Fair | 1.5% to 4.2% |
| 25-44 | Weak | 4.2% to 15.0% |
| 0-24 | Critical | over 15.0% |
Where the company stands within its band depends half on the bankruptcy probability and half on how it does against its sector peers (NACE 46, medium-sized). It does better than 48% of them on solvency, 23% on liquidity, 8% on profitability and 48% on growth.
The bankruptcy probability was computed on 08-11-2026 by the bankruptcy model of 2 October 2026, which learns from Belgian bankruptcies and reads the registers, the annual accounts and the Belgian Official Gazette.
The probability rests on the annual accounts with balance sheet date 31-12-2025.
Of the companies with a bankruptcy probability in the very low class on 30-06-2025, 0.1% went bankrupt within twelve months.
Some facts cap the score, however low the probability. With negative or zero equity, a heavy loss, a special status in the KBO, one missing filing or accounts filed more than 90 days late, the score is Fair at most (59). With two missing filings, it is Weak at most (44). During a judicial reorganisation or at the company's end (bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation), it is Critical at most (24).
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The company filed its last 7 accounts on average 66 days before the deadline. In the sector (NACE 46), the median for financial year 2024 was 3 days before the deadline, and 39% of those companies filed late.
Shares in 48 companies, including Crystal Ball South Africa and LDI INTERNATIONAL
Board & ownership| Company | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manuchar Antwerp | ≈ €504.9m | -1.9% | 38.1% | 206.7 |
| BRENNTAG Deerlijk | €303.1m | 6.0% | 41.1% | 246.5 |
| YARA BELGIUM SA Saint-Josse-ten-Noode | €331.1m | 1.4% | 81.6% | 286.5 |
| 3M Belgium Machelen (Brab.) | €194.3m | -0.6% | -169.0% | 347.4 |
| Eval Europe Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht | €262.6m | 16.0% | 88.1% | 176 |
| SQM EUROPE Antwerp | €881.2m | 5.9% | 82.4% | 64.7 |
| Milliken Europe Ghent | €146.4m | 6.8% | 78.9% | 75.4 |
Grey: the largest companies of the sector (wholesale trade (NACE 46)), without their names. Blue: the sector peers from the table.
These companies have the same main activity as Manuchar: wholesale of industrial chemicals (NACE 46851). They are comparable in size and age: total assets between €125m and €507m, founded between 1933 and 1997.
Manuchar has been active since 1970 and the Belgian Official Gazette contains no insolvency or warning signals. The 2025 annual accounts show equity of USD 182.7m and a net result of -USD 9.5m.
Its solvency ranks better than 42% of 6,191 sector peers (NACE 46, financial year 2025). The computed 12-month bankruptcy probability is 0.2% (very low).
Sources: KBO register, filings at the National Bank, Belgian Official Gazette. Click a figure with a dotted line for the item and the filing.
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