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Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products

Current registrations 398division 23: 2,977
Starters, 12 months 92.3 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 25.0 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 6,324168 employers · latest accounts
Median age 21.9 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 89.7%357 of 398 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 23610 · financial year 2025 · 299 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
40.7%
division 46.9% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€53,345
division €19,552 · Belgium €16,500
Median equity
€1.0m
division €366,458 · Belgium €98,350
Loss-making
26.8%
division 26.5% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
7.7%
division 8.3% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
9.1%
division 8.1% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.57
division 1.69 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
30.9%
financial year 2024, 298 filings · division 34.2% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
3.7%
of 322 companies with annual accounts · division 4.0% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 43.9%47.2%44.5%43.9%43.2%40.7%
Median net result €97,632€143,942€113,169€94,459€66,758€53,345

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
13
3.27% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
20
50.3 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
05-11-2026 BETONBOUW VERELST
BE 0428.310.626
12-10-2026 Zipaj Works
BE 1021.961.316
25-08-2026 BETON MANS
BE 0686.634.195
18-09-2025 BETONPRODUCTEN VAN HOORENWEDER HANS
BE 0479.448.531
24-06-2025 MP Isoconstruct
BE 0792.702.509
06-03-2025 SONEB
BE 0459.528.887
28-01-2025 Stoneline
BE 0834.063.111
28-10-2024 ANTRASIET
BE 0884.200.629

Every bankruptcy in division 23, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 372 of 398 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 276 · 74.2%
  • Wallonia 89 · 23.9%
  • Brussels 6 · 1.6%
  • Abroad 1 · 0.3%
fewer moremax 73

Largest employers

NACE 23610 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 ETERNITKapelle-op-den-Bos 524 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 ETS E. RONVEAUXCiney 454 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 PREFACOLebbeke 399 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 SCHELFHOUTKinrooi 300 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 ERGONLier 270 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 210 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 145
  • 106.02 Concrete industry 126
  • 124 Construction 57
  • 106 Cement industry 13
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 4
  • 116 Chemical industry 4
  • 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 4
  • 106.03 Cement industry 2
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  • 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 2
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
  • 113.04 Ceramics industry 1
  • 121 Cleaning 1
  • 126 Furnishing and woodworking 1
  • 140 Transport and logistics 1
  • 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 1
  • 145 Horticulture 1
  • 149 Sectors related to metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 1
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 1
  • 201 Independent retail 1
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 1

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

Division 23: Non-metallic mineral products

Related activities

5 other activities

Bankruptcies per year in division 23

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies1610261015878812148
Jobs lost5015842716213483623163296059

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 23

522 employers
Median
€65,800
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€56,900 to €75,200
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
40 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €62,300 €52,200 to €73,700 258
10 to 49 FTE €66,400 €59,700 to €73,100 196
50 to 249 FTE €73,200 €66,100 to €86,700 48
250 FTE or more €92,100 €71,100 to €97,900 20

Foreign control in NACE division 23

1,450 registered companies

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €29.5m awarded 351 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Strategische transformatiesteun
  • Federal transfers 735,000 amount as published 1 recipient · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Economie van de toekomst en productiviteit: subsidies aan bedrijven
  • EU budget €157.2m attributed share 8 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Innovation Fund
  • EU research €7.9m EU contribution 9 recipients · 2010 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €53,345 is above Belgium's €16,500. Return on equity of 9.1% is below Belgium's 15.9%. 7.7% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.2% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 21.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 6.5% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 2.3 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 90% of the 87 NACE divisions.

Staff and filing. 30.9% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 1,947 of the 6,324 FTE: 30.8%.

Direction. Median solvency fell from 43.9% in financial year 2020 to 40.7% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €97,632 in financial year 2020 to €53,345 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 08-11-2026 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 23610 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 1,276,474 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,509 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.