Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 11 of 13 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 20 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 20120 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 KRONOS EUROPEGhent 287 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 Vibrantz Performance Pigments BelgiumMenen 122 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 RADIANT COLORHouthalen-Helchteren 84.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 Surventis ServicesBornem 68.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 EURODYE-CTCJodoigne 26.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
Companies
13 with this main activity- KRONOS EUROPE Ghent · 287 FTE
- Vibrantz Performance Pigments Belgium Menen · 122 FTE
- RADIANT COLOR Houthalen-Helchteren · 84.6 FTE
- Surventis Services Bornem · 68.5 FTE
- EURODYE-CTC Jodoigne · 26.8 FTE
- ANC.ETS.STOOPEN & MEEUS Antwerp · 15.5 FTE
- ITALMASTER BELGIUM Ghent · 9.4 FTE
- BLENDWELL Dour · 5.0 FTE
- Blendwell UTVA Dour
- Global Polymer Solutions S.L. Sant Celoni
- Lenoble, Candice sole trader · Somme-Leuze
- Şutu, Vasile sole trader · Anderlecht
- ww technologies LTD SOFIA
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 6 companies- 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 6
- 116 Chemical industry 5
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 20: Chemicals
Related activities
6 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products20160 | 138 | 6 | 0 | 4,644 |
| Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products20140 | 106 | 0 | 0 | 13,045 |
| Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products20150 | 73 | 1 | 1 | 1,752 |
| Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products20130 | 62 | 1 | 0 | 3,950 |
| Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products20110 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 3,272 |
| Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products20170 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 69 |
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 20 · financial year 2025 · 760 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 41.9% | 42.9% | 43.0% | 42.8% | 44.4% | 46.1% |
| Median net result | - | - | €69,453 | €85,659 | €65,497 | €43,848 | €47,243 | €38,831 |
| Filed late | 28.4% | 36.2% | 28.9% | 32.9% | 29.9% | 27.7% | 26.5% | - |
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Bankruptcies per year in division 20
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 5 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 6 |
| Jobs lost | 177 | 7 | 23 | 36 | 86 | 191 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 148 | 12 | 54 |
2026 through June. 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 20
381 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €66,700 | €53,100 to €85,300 | 120 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €82,500 | €65,300 to €102,400 | 125 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €98,400 | €79,700 to €127,200 | 98 |
| 250 FTE or more | €143,800 | €120,400 to €155,000 | 38 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Foreign control in NACE division 20
848 registered companiesMain parent countries: Netherlands (18), United States (15) and France (14).Show on the map by municipality
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €350.1m awarded
- Federal transfers 2.6m amount as published
- EU budget €607.9m attributed share
- EU research €64.4m EU contribution
Insights on Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products
Inflow and structure. This activity holds 1.0% of the registrations of Chemicals.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 588 of the 594 FTE: 99.2%.
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 20120 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.
For NACE 20120, 8 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.