Manufacture of paper and paper products
In NACE division 17, 3.3 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 85% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 27-09-2026 05:30.
Key figures for NACE division 17
fiscal year 2025 · median over 161 filed annual accountsBankruptcies
past five yearsNationally, 1.41% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 74% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 17 is 0.5%, against 0.5% nationally, over 269 scored companies. Comparison: as of 27-09-2026 05:30.
Regional split
by region · 148 of 155 enterprises with a registered office on fileRecent bankruptcies in this sector
3Geographic distribution
by province · based on the establishment addressPublic money in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €96.0m awarded
- Federal transfers 69,800 amount as published
- EU budget €198,192 attributed share
- EU research €623,810 eu contribution
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 17210 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 17, not NACE 17210 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.