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Manufacture of rubber and plastic products

Current registrations 242division 22: 1,325
Starters, 12 months 41.7 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 833.1 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 3,07073 employers · latest accounts
Median age 14.9 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 88.8%215 of 242 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 22240 · financial year 2025 · 167 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
39.9%
division 48.0% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€30,030
division €36,294 · Belgium €16,516
Median equity
€246,034
division €751,307 · Belgium €98,395
Loss-making
26.3%
division 26.1% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
11.4%
division 9.4% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
11.2%
division 8.3% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.56
division 1.75 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
38.4%
financial year 2024, 172 filings · division 34.3% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
2.6%
of 189 companies with annual accounts · division 4.3% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 38.1%38.8%36.7%39.7%37.1%39.9%
Median net result €46,970€41,334€34,978€45,741€33,923€30,030

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
14
5.79% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
16
66.1 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
21-09-2026 ADEMO
BE 0578.901.047
29-06-2026 VENSTR.
BE 0773.710.701
08-06-2026 AB & PARTNERS
BE 0841.518.847
05-06-2026 Frings, Marc
BE 0806.318.933 · sole trader · Plombières
01-06-2026 INDUPOL INTERNATIONAL
BE 0436.120.611
27-05-2026 Euro Workx
BE 0793.532.155
06-03-2026 FOFAN
BE 0550.636.930
01-12-2025 TIRDO
BE 0542.512.387

Every bankruptcy in division 22, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 212 of 242 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 131 · 61.8%
  • Wallonia 71 · 33.5%
  • Brussels 8 · 3.8%
  • Abroad 2 · 0.9%
fewer moremax 37

Largest employers

NACE 22240 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 IVCAvelgem 678 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 NMCRaeren 535 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 SKYLUXHarelbeke 245 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 SOPREMAGrobbendonk 212 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 Dyka PlasticsPelt 184 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 89 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 26
  • 116 Chemical industry 25
  • 124 Construction 25
  • 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 24
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 22
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 21
  • 126 Furnishing and woodworking 4
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 2
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  • 149.04 Metal trade 2
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
  • 105 Non-ferrous metals 1
  • 106.02 Concrete industry 1
  • 140 Transport and logistics 1
  • 142.04 Recovery of raw materials 1
  • 145 Horticulture 1
  • 201 Independent retail 1
  • 341 Intermediation in banking and investment services 1

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

Division 22: Rubber and plastics

Related activities

5 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Manufacture of rubber and plastic products22260 619 136 4 4,054
Manufacture of rubber and plastic products22210 226 8 1 5,071
Manufacture of rubber and plastic products22220 155 0 0 4,368
Manufacture of rubber and plastic products22230 57 5 1 7
Manufacture of rubber and plastic products22250 18 9 0 4

Bankruptcies per year in division 22

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies158838563410107
Jobs lost949346502683786139630374

2026 through September. 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 22

334 employers
Median
€67,700
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€56,700 to €81,200
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
34 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €58,700 €48,300 to €74,400 120
10 to 49 FTE €67,500 €58,600 to €79,100 130
50 to 249 FTE €72,800 €66,000 to €83,200 69

Foreign control in NACE division 22

775 registered companies

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €24.0m awarded 250 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Ontwikkelingsproject
  • Federal transfers 18.2m amount as published 3 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Investeringssteun in het kader van de essentiëleveiligheidsbelangen (EVB)
  • EU budget €952,178 attributed share 7 recipients · 2021 to 2024 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €4.8m EU contribution 15 recipients · 2012 to 2026 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Manufacture of rubber and plastic products

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €30,030 is above Belgium's €16,516. Return on equity of 11.2% is below Belgium's 15.9%. Solvency of 39.9% is below Belgium's 46.1%.

Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 33.1 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. No NACE division counts more. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.4% is above Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 14.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 12.4% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Wallonia holds 33.8% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 1,854 of the 3,070 FTE: 60.4%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 38.1% in financial year 2020 to 39.9% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €46,970 in financial year 2020 to €30,030 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 07-11-2026 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 22240 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 1,276,547 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,272 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.