Manufacture of basic metals
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 24 · financial year 2025 · 361 filed annual accountsStaff 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
Spread across the country
by region and province · 4 of 7 enterprises with a registered office on file- Flanders
- Unknown
This sector's balance sheets on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE division 24 · staff from the latest accounts- 1 ARCELORMITTAL BELGIUMBrussels 5,839 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 APERAM STAINLESS BELGIUMGenk 2,082 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 INDUSTEEL BelgiumCharleroi 920 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 Aluminium DuffelDuffel 893 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 AURUBIS OLENOlen 704 FTEfinancial year 2025
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
The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 24 is lower than that of 79% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.
This sector's historical share is lower than that of 91% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.
The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 24 is 0.5%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 396 scored companies.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 02-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 2444 exists.
The historical share is the share of current registrations for which a bankruptcy opening was published in the past five years. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors. The historical share is not a future bankruptcy probability.
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 "higher than 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Their number is given with the figure.
The filed-accounts figures cover the whole NACE division 24, not only NACE 2444. There are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the division's 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.