Manufacture of basic metals
No starter in the past twelve months. No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 19 of 24 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 24 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 24430 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 NYRSTAR BELGIUMBalen 646 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 EverZinc BelgiumLiège 157 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 REAZN BELGIUMKruisem 76.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 ZINACORLiège 32.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 DE CRAENEKruisem 9.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
Companies
24 with this main activity- UMICORE Brussels · 3,209 FTE
- NYRSTAR BELGIUM Balen · 646 FTE
- EverZinc Belgium Liège · 157 FTE
- CAMPINE RECYCLING Beerse · 85.6 FTE
- REAZN BELGIUM Kruisem · 76.0 FTE
- Rezinal Heusden-Zolder · 61.0 FTE
- ZINACOR Liège · 32.7 FTE
- DE CRAENE Kruisem · 9.3 FTE
- SOCIETE INDUSTRIELLE LIEGEOISE DES OXYDES Engis · 6.4 FTE
- PROMAZINC Messancy · 3.1 FTE
- LOOD- EN ZINKPRODUCTIE Harelbeke · 1.0 FTE
- RHEINZINK BELUX Eupen · 1.0 FTE
- ANGE Tielt-Winge
- Colpaert, Kristof sole trader · Ghent
- EZUF BE Liège
- HBWELD Seraing
- Hogie, Geoffrey sole trader · Soumagne
- NedZink bv Budel-Dorplein
- Reniers, Patrice sole trader · Marchin
- TINCENTRALE ST-LAMBERT Tongeren-Borgloon
- UNITE TVA EVERZINC Liège
- Van Der Eecken, Patricia sole trader · Sint-Lievens-Houtem
- Vital Materials Co., Ltd Wanchai
- Wyckhuys, Pieter sole trader · Aalter
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 11 companies- 105 Non-ferrous metals 4
- 224 White-collar workers in non-ferrous metals 4
- 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 3
- 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 2
- 113 Ceramics industry 1
- 116 Chemical industry 1
- 142.01 Recovery of raw materials 1
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 1
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- 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 1
- 219 Technical inspection and conformity assessment 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 24: Basic metals
Related activities
5 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacture of basic metals24420 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 1,889 |
| Manufacture of basic metals24450 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 643 |
| Manufacture of basic metals24410 | 19 | 0 | 0 | - |
| Manufacture of basic metals24440 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1,189 |
| Manufacture of basic metals24460 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
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 4.0% of the registrations of Basic metals.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 921 of the 929 FTE: 99.1%.
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 24430 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.
For NACE 24430, 15 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.