Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials

NACE 16100

Current registrations616

Starters, 12 months · division 16202

Employment (FTE) · division 1611,464

Median age · division 1610.8 years

In NACE division 16, 6.0 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 61% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure. Comparison: as of 26-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 16

financial year 2025 · median over 1,160 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

43.4%

lower than 53% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median equity

€126,841

higher than 52% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median net result

€12,886

lower than 59% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Annual accounts in sample

1,160

Foreign control in NACE division 16

1,540 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

0.3%

4 of 1,540; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

23%

2,280 of 9,893 FTE; Belgium 15%

Main parent countries: United Kingdom (1), Netherlands (1) and Sweden (1).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 16

343 employers

Median

€56,900

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€49,200 to €66,100

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

63 of 78

sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€56,500	€48,100 to €65,900	174
10 to 49 FTE	€57,400	€51,000 to €65,600	141
50 to 249 FTE	€60,500	€49,800 to €67,300	23

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

1.30%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 58% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 16 is 0.5%, against 0.2% nationally, over 1,595 scored companies. Comparison: as of 26-10-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 365 of 616 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 252 · 69.0%

Wallonia 105 · 28.8%

Brussels 8 · 2.2%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
04-06-2026	Delrue Livin BE 0775.712.859
20-04-2026	Lybaert, Dylan BE 0561.775.005 · sole trader · Sint-Laureins
30-04-2025	LIMBURGSE VOEGWERKEN BE 0871.861.734
14-08-2024	LAVERDURE IMMO BE 0526.872.821
31-01-2024	QAZI TRADERS BE 0778.358.484
06-11-2023	LUXURY WOOD BE 0678.591.313
04-05-2023	Cornet, Laurent BE 0658.631.780 · sole trader · Floreffe
11-01-2023	Michotte, Pierre BE 0715.340.653 · sole trader · Walcourt

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office

West Flanders WVL 64

East Flanders OVL 54

Antwerp ANT 62

Flemish Brabant VLB 22

Limburg LIM 50

Brussels BRU 8

Hainaut HAI 17

Walloon Brabant WBR 7

Namur NAM 30

Liège LIE 29

Luxembourg LUX 22

fewer moremax 64

Where are this sector's balance sheets registered? By municipality, down to the address

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €39.2m awarded 356 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Erkenning en subsidiëring als maatwerkafdeling
Federal transfers 10,000 amount as published 1 recipient · 2023 · largest: Toelagen aan verenigingen houden zich bezig met de bescherming en de bevordering van de KMO’s en de Zelfstandigen
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €4,860 paid 1 recipient · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Projets particuliers d'animation d'organisation de jeunesse, de centres de jeunes et d'associations non reconnues
EU budget €480,451 attributed share 1 recipient · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
EU research €622,919 eu contribution 1 recipient · 2021 to 2026 · largest: Horizon 2020

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How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2008 nomenclature, the one in which code 16100 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 16, not NACE 16100 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.