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

NACE 1622

Current registrations37

Starters, 12 months · division 16200

Employment (FTE) · division 1611,288

Median age · division 1610.8 years

In NACE division 16, 5.9 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. Comparison: as of 06-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 16

fiscal year 2025 · median over 1,139 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

43.8%

lower than 52% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€128,049

higher than 52% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€12,791

lower than 58% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

1,139

Foreign control in NACE division 16

1,547 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

0.3%

4 of 1,547; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

23%

2,280 of 9,882 FTE; Belgium 14%

Mostly from United Kingdom (1), Netherlands (1) and Sweden (1).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 16

340 employers

Median

€56,900

Belgium €61,300

Middle half

€49,200 to €66,000

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

63 of 78

by median staff cost per FTE

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€56,200	€47,400 to €65,600	171
10 to 49 FTE	€58,000	€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

0.00%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 91% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 16 is 0.5%, against 0.2% nationally, over 1,598 scored companies. Comparison: as of 06-10-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 30 of 37 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 25 · 83.3%

Wallonia 5 · 16.7%

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 7

East Flanders OVL 4

Antwerp ANT 7

Flemish Brabant VLB 1

Limburg LIM 6

Brussels BRU 0

Hainaut HAI 1

Walloon Brabant WBR 0

Namur NAM 2

Liège LIE 1

Luxembourg LUX 1

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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 354 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 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 1622 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 1622 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.