Manufacture of paper and paper products
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 17 · financial year 2025 · 251 filed annual accountsStaff cost per FTE in NACE division 17
125 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €57,100 | €49,600 to €69,900 | 35 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €60,300 | €53,400 to €69,100 | 51 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €70,500 | €63,800 to €79,300 | 28 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Spread across the country
by region and province · 9 of 10 enterprises with a registered office on file- Flanders
- Brussels
This sector's balance sheets on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE division 17 · staff from the latest accounts- 1 BURGO ARDENNESVirton 592 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 OntexBuggenhout 579 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 VPK PACKAGINGDendermonde 571 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 AVERY DENNISON BELGIETurnhout 383 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 DS Smith Packaging BelgiumGhent 370 FTEfinancial year 2025
Foreign control in NACE division 17
278 registered companiesSubsidies 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
Insights on Manufacture of paper and paper products
The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 17 is lower than that of 89% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.
This sector's historical share is lower than that of 91% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.
The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 17 is 0.3%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 270 scored companies.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 04-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 17240 exists.
The historical share is the share of current registrations for which a bankruptcy opening was published in the past five years. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors. The historical share is not a future bankruptcy probability.
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 "higher than 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Their number is given with the figure.
The filed-accounts figures cover the whole NACE division 17, not only NACE 17240. There are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the division's 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.