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Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products

NACE 19200 · division 19 Coke and refined petroleum
Current registrations 32division 19: 34
Starters, 12 months 13.1 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Employment (FTE) 4,98312 employers · latest accounts
Median age 30.6 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 78.1%25 of 32 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Spread across the country

by region and province · 29 of 32 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 16 · 55.2%
  • Brussels 5 · 17.2%
  • Wallonia 4 · 13.8%
  • Abroad 4 · 13.8%
fewer moremax 8

The balance sheets of division 19 on the map, by municipality and down to the address

Largest employers

NACE 19200 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 EXXONMOBIL PETROLEUM & CHEMICALAntwerp 1,829 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 TotalEnergies Refinery AntwerpAntwerp 1,232 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 TotalEnergies Marketing BelgiumBrussels 509 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & RefiningBrussels 353 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICALS INTERNATIONALMachelen (Brab.) 334 FTEfinancial year 2025

Companies

32 with this main activity

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 15 companies
  • 211 Oil industry and trade 7
  • 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 6
  • 116 Chemical industry 3
  • 149.04 Metal trade 1
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 1
  • 220 White-collar workers in the food industry 1

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

Division 19: Coke and refined petroleum

Related activities

1 other activity
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products19100 2 0 0 -

Bankruptcies per year in division 19

Per year20152017202020232026
Bankruptcies11111
Jobs lost11211

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

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €109.0m awarded 9 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subsidie voor bedrijven ter compensatie van indirecte emissiekosten
  • EU budget €58.8m attributed share 3 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Innovation Fund
  • EU research €123,750 EU contribution 1 recipient · 2022 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 30.6 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 3.1% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. This activity holds 94.1% of the registrations of Coke and refined petroleum.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 4,257 of the 4,983 FTE: 85.4%.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 09-11-2026 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 19200 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 1,276,461 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,442 registrations publish no activity.

For NACE 19200, 20 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.

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