Manufacture of basic metals

NACE 245

Current registrations104

Starters, 12 months · division 2426

Employment (FTE) · division 2425,047

Median age · division 2420.9 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 77% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure. Comparison: as of 30-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 24

financial year 2025 · median over 320 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

44.3%

higher than 49% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median equity

€462,294

higher than 89% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median net result

€21,506

higher than 70% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Annual accounts in sample

320

Foreign control in NACE division 24

439 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

6.4%

28 of 439; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

29%

6,437 of 22,011 FTE; Belgium 15%

Main parent countries: Germany (5), Netherlands (5) and France (4).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 24

172 employers

Median

€66,900

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€58,700 to €84,700

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

36 of 78

sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first

By size class
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

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

1.92%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 67% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 24 is 0.5%, against 0.2% nationally, over 395 scored companies. Comparison: as of 30-10-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 89 of 104 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 49 · 55.1%

Wallonia 39 · 43.8%

Brussels 1 · 1.1%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
07-11-2025	Aciéries Somville BE 0401.575.545
22-03-2024	METAMAGMA FONDERIE D'ART BE 0777.376.608

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office

West Flanders WVL 16

East Flanders OVL 10

Antwerp ANT 11

Flemish Brabant VLB 5

Limburg LIM 7

Brussels BRU 1

Hainaut HAI 12

Walloon Brabant WBR 3

Namur NAM 5

Liège LIE 19

Luxembourg LUX 0

fewer moremax 19

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 €422.7m awarded 114 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 245 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 245 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.