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Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery

Current registrations 1,549division 16: 3,349
Starters, 12 months 503.2 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 74.5 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 2,198151 employers · latest accounts
Median age 13.7 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 93.1%1,442 of 1,549 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 16230 · financial year 2025 · 721 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
41.2%
division 43.1% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€12,375
division €14,260 · Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€111,911
division €163,428 · Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
25.5%
division 27.2% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
10.7%
division 10.8% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
11.5%
division 9.7% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.59
division 1.69 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
39.1%
financial year 2024, 732 filings · division 37.4% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
5.5%
of 783 companies with annual accounts · division 4.7% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 36.1%34.9%35.1%39.4%40.9%41.2%
Median net result €12,557€14,279€14,045€12,235€11,386€12,375

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
29
1.87% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
36
23.2 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
07-05-2026 REGITOIT
BE 0746.780.531
10-04-2026 De Roose
BE 0726.983.029
23-01-2026 LUCKX P.B PLAATSINGSBEDRIJF
BE 0893.616.854
16-01-2026 MT Design
BE 0823.023.224
14-01-2026 Dendydoors
BE 0757.650.271
31-12-2025 Inpro
BE 0894.132.340
12-12-2025 Steenbergen, Nathan
BE 0761.432.182 · sole trader · Ramillies
15-10-2025 Broquet, Cédric
BE 0515.907.366 · sole trader · Geraardsbergen

Every bankruptcy in division 16, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 938 of 1,549 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 655 · 69.8%
  • Wallonia 246 · 26.2%
  • Brussels 32 · 3.4%
  • Abroad 5 · 0.5%
fewer moremax 164

Largest employers

NACE 16230 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 PIERRETLibin 308 FTEfinancial year 2024
  2. 2 CHIMSCOGedinne 86.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 WINLOCK SYSTEMSLokeren 70.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 STRUCTUREWOODMarche-en-Famenne 54.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 MACHIELS BUILDING SOLUTIONSHasselt 53.5 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 261 companies
  • 124 Construction 158
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 101
  • 126 Furnishing and woodworking 91
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 12
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 12
  • 201 Independent retail 5
  • 125.02 Wood industry 4
  • 125.03 Timber trade 3
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  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 2
  • 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 2
  • 145 Horticulture 2
  • 302 Hotels and catering 2
  • 119 Food trade 1
  • 125.01 Wood industry 1
  • 140 Transport and logistics 1
  • 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 1
  • 304 Performing arts 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 16: Wood and cork

Related activities

8 other activities

Bankruptcies per year in division 16

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies291616191117101217131013
Jobs lost662456712123622916282356139

2026 through August. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

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
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
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

4 of the 1,539 companies in NACE division 16 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: United Kingdom (1), Netherlands (1) and Sweden (1). Together they employ 2,280 of the division's 9,895 FTE: 23%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

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 €695,106 EU contribution 1 recipient · 2021 to 2026 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery

Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 11.5% is below Belgium's 15.9%. The median net result of €12,375 is below Belgium's €16,520. 10.7% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.5% is above Belgium's 0.2%. In 12 months, 4.5 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 59% of the 88 NACE divisions.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 13.7 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. In 12 months, 3.2 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 84% of the 87 NACE divisions. Wallonia holds 26.4% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 573 of the 2,198 FTE: 26.1%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 36.1% in financial year 2020 to 41.2% in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 06-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 16230 exists.

The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,581 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 698,987 registrations publish no activity.

Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.