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Manufacture of basic metals

NACE 24100
Current registrations191
Starters, 12 months · division 24
27
Employment (FTE) · division 24
25,068
Median age · division 24
21.1 years

In NACE division 24, 4.4 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 76% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 26-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 24

fiscal year 2025 · median over 274 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
43.3%
lower than 53% of 79 divisions
Median equity
€459,062
higher than 87% of 79 divisions
Median net result
€16,356
higher than 54% of 79 divisions
Annual accounts in sample
274

Bankruptcies

past five years
Bankruptcies (5y)
1
Historical share
0.52%

Nationally, 1.41% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 73% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 24 is 0.5%, against 0.5% nationally, over 403 scored companies. Comparison: as of 26-09-2026 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

1
Date Company
28-04-2025 Liberty Galati S.A.
BE 0783.319.243

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 29

Public money 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 24100 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 24100 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.