Manufacture of basic metals
No starter in the past twelve months. No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Activities
NACE 2433 · 1 activity| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacture of basic metals24330 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 573 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 9 of 10 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
The balance sheets of division 24 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 2433 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 voestalpine SADEFHooglede 560 FTEfinancial year 2026
- 2 M.T.B.Lommel 10.1 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 sitomecaCharleroi 3.0 FTEfinancial year 2026
Companies
10 with this main activity- voestalpine SADEF Hooglede · 560 FTE
- LEVIAT Ternat · 150 FTE
- MECANIQUE FERROVIAIRE DÉVELOPPEMENT Morlanwelz · 21.5 FTE
- HENGELHOEF CONCRETE JOINTS Genk · 20.0 FTE
- M.T.B. Lommel · 10.1 FTE
- sitomeca Charleroi · 3.0 FTE
- ART-METAL LIÈGE Liège
- FER ET FRERES LE BOULENGE Liège
- SURFACE APPLICATIONS TO MOULDS & METALS Oud-Heverlee
- Watteyne, Denis sole trader · Rochefort
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 7 companies- 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 7
- 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 7
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 24: Basic metals
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 24 · financial year 2025 · 362 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 41.4% | 40.6% | 40.8% | 44.2% | 41.8% | 44.3% |
| Median net result | - | - | €18,855 | €35,341 | €33,014 | €31,527 | €25,491 | €21,506 |
| Filed late | 29.2% | 37.9% | 29.9% | 26.6% | 29.2% | 29.4% | 29.5% | - |
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Bankruptcies per year in division 24
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Jobs lost | 65 | 111 | 2 | 17 | 61 | 3 | 17 | 90 | 4 | 29 | 521 | 145 |
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 24
172 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €59,500 | €49,900 to €72,900 | 55 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €65,000 | €59,600 to €73,500 | 60 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €79,600 | €67,600 to €88,700 | 44 |
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 24
439 registered companiesSubsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €422.7m awarded
- Federal transfers 7.3m amount as published
- EU budget €80.5m attributed share
- EU research €17.8m EU contribution
Insights on Manufacture of basic metals
Inflow and structure. This activity holds 1.7% of the registrations of Basic metals.
Staff and filing. The 3 largest employers hold 573 of the 573 FTE: 100.0%.
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 2433 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 2433, 8 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.