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Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products

Current registrations 147division 26: 994
Starters, 12 months 85.4 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Employment (FTE) 34023 employers · latest accounts
Median age 19.3 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 87.1%128 of 147 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No bankruptcy in the past twelve months.

Filed accounts

NACE 26400 · financial year 2025 · 85 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
54.3%
division 49.5% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€9,329
division €17,441 · Belgium €16,492
Median equity
€176,148
division €239,831 · Belgium €98,323
Loss-making
31.0%
division 34.9% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
14.1%
division 14.3% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
9.5%
division 10.0% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
2.01
division 1.92 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
34.1%
financial year 2024, 85 filings · division 34.4% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
2.2%
of 91 companies with annual accounts · division 4.7% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 41.7%47.1%45.2%40.6%52.3%54.3%
Median net result €14,985€15,596€12,818€23,766€21,618€9,329

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
3
2.04% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
5
34.0 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
26-08-2025 Gabi SmartCare
BE 0683.446.756
03-10-2024 SOLARLY
BE 0719.650.225
17-01-2023 Deutz Aviation Technics (Belgium)
BE 0433.594.255

Every bankruptcy in division 26, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 108 of 147 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 67 · 62.0%
  • Wallonia 31 · 28.7%
  • Brussels 8 · 7.4%
  • Abroad 2 · 1.9%
fewer moremax 18

Largest employers

NACE 26400 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 OPTRONIC INSTRUMENTS & PRODUCTSOudenaarde 119 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 JEMAOttignies-Louvain-la-Neuve 50.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 TELEVIC EDUCATIONIzegem 22.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 ATELIERS RADIOMECANIQUES BELGESDilbeek 21.0 FTEfinancial year 2026
  5. 5 Phoenix MecanoDeinze 14.0 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 31 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 16
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 9
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 9
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 5
  • 116 Chemical industry 3
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 2
  • 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 2
  • 201 Independent retail 1
Show the 1 others
  • 303 Film industry 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 26: Computer and electronic products

Related activities

8 other activities
Show all 8 activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products26600 44 4 0 1,118
Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products26120 32 0 0 339

Bankruptcies per year in division 26

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies7310563334983
Jobs lost3220695113135194671538

2026 through July. 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 26

230 employers
Median
€86,000
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€68,200 to €105,600
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
7 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €80,500 €63,200 to €100,600 95
10 to 49 FTE €83,200 €68,600 to €100,500 96
50 to 249 FTE €96,900 €82,100 to €111,600 28

Foreign control in NACE division 26

737 registered companies

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €44.1m awarded 168 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Onderzoeksproject
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €3,000 paid 1 recipient · 2024 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • Federal transfers 4.0m amount as published 5 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Toelagen in kader van de oproep tot projecten betreffende de energietransitie.
  • EU budget €32.6m attributed share 31 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €64.6m EU contribution 43 recipients · 2007 to 2027 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €9,329 is below Belgium's €16,492. Return on equity of 9.5% is below Belgium's 15.9%. Liquidity of 2.01 is above Belgium's 1.66.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 19.3 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. In 12 months, 5.4 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 66% of the 87 NACE divisions. 26.5% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 34.1% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 227 of the 340 FTE: 66.7%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 41.7% in financial year 2020 to 54.3% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €14,985 in financial year 2020 to €9,329 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 10-11-2026 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 26400 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 1,276,421 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,557 registrations publish no activity.

Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the 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. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.