Manufacture of basic metals

NACE 241

Current registrations191

Starters, 12 months · division 2428

Employment (FTE) · division 2425,317

Median age · division 2421.1 years

In NACE division 24, 4.6 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 75% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 30-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 24

fiscal year 2025 · median over 278 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

43.3%

lower than 54% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€462,294

higher than 89% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€19,210

higher than 65% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

278

Foreign control in NACE division 24

448 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

6.5%

29 of 448; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

29%

6,475 of 22,054 FTE; Belgium 15%

Mostly from Germany (5), Netherlands (5) and France (4).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 24

119 employers

Median

€70,400

Belgium €65,100

Middle half

€60,900 to €87,700

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

34 of 73

by median staff cost per FTE

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
10 to 49 FTE	€65,000	€58,400 to €73,800	62
50 to 249 FTE	€78,100	€67,600 to €89,200	44

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

0.52%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 76% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 24 is 0.5%, against 0.5% nationally, over 405 scored companies. Comparison: as of 30-09-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 169 of 191 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 94 · 55.6%

Wallonia 65 · 38.5%

Unknown 6 · 3.6%

Brussels 4 · 2.4%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
28-04-2025	Liberty Galati S.A. BE 0783.319.243

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 18

East Flanders OVL 24

Antwerp ANT 23

Flemish Brabant VLB 11

Limburg LIM 18

Brussels BRU 4

Hainaut HAI 24

Walloon Brabant WBR 6

Namur NAM 5

Liège LIE 29

Luxembourg LUX 1

fewer moremax 29

Where are this sector's balance sheets registered? By municipality, down to the address

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €422.4m awarded 117 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subsidie voor bedrijven ter compensatie van indirecte emissiekosten
Federal transfers 7.3m amount as published 2 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Financieringskost nucleaire bijdrage Synatom
EU budget €80.5m attributed share 5 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Innovation Fund
EU research €17.8m eu contribution 7 recipients · 2013 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 241 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 24, not NACE 241 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.