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Manufacture of electrical equipment

Current registrations 258division 27: 1,060
Starters, 12 months 83.1 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 415.5 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 3,48259 employers · latest accounts
Median age 15.1 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 84.5%218 of 258 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 27110 · financial year 2025 · 157 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
44.4%
division 42.9% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€17,563
division €17,226 · Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€249,551
division €238,659 · Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
28.7%
division 30.7% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
8.3%
division 11.6% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
8.0%
division 10.0% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.87
division 1.73 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
34.2%
financial year 2024, 158 filings · division 37.0% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
4.5%
of 176 companies with annual accounts · division 6.4% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 44.3%40.1%40.7%46.0%41.3%44.4%
Median net result €13,744€20,163€22,943€26,608€17,344€17,563

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
12
4.65% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
18
69.8 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
28-09-2026 Belgian Sun Tech
BE 1012.287.842
05-06-2026 EUROPOWER GENERATORS
BE 0429.593.895
20-02-2026 Cubitech
BE 0506.944.764
14-01-2026 MH
BE 0799.106.883
17-09-2025 DIRECT CURRENT ENERGY
BE 0722.673.160
08-07-2025 Sunlogics
BE 0897.509.623
25-06-2025 Dydyna, Dariusz
BE 0508.485.282 · sole trader · Ixelles
24-03-2025 WIDECONCEPT
BE 0790.546.238

Every bankruptcy in division 27, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 216 of 258 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 149 · 69.0%
  • Wallonia 52 · 24.1%
  • Brussels 10 · 4.6%
  • Abroad 5 · 2.3%
fewer moremax 45

Largest employers

NACE 27110 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 ALSTOM BelgiumCharleroi 1,669 FTEfinancial year 2026
  2. 2 CG POWER SYSTEMS BELGIUM NVMechelen 439 FTEfinancial year 2019
  3. 3 ADB SAFEGATEMachelen (Brab.) 197 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 INDUCTOTHERM COATING EQUIPMENTHerstal 132 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 CG HOLDINGS BELGIUM NVMechelen 126 FTEfinancial year 2019

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 73 companies
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 40
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 38
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 20
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 17
  • 149 Sectors related to metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 4
  • 112 Garages 2
  • 124 Construction 2
  • 201 Independent retail 2
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  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
  • 126 Furnishing and woodworking 1
  • 149.02 Coachwork 1

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

Division 27: Electrical equipment

Related activities

1 other activity
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Manufacture of electrical equipment27120 155 5 1 1,005

Bankruptcies per year in division 27

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies56971176489128
Jobs lost13736313765261655183200160

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 27

194 employers
Median
€70,700
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€58,000 to €89,200
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
23 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €66,800 €52,200 to €86,600 86
10 to 49 FTE €70,700 €59,600 to €84,400 76
50 to 249 FTE €83,100 €72,600 to €93,200 21

Foreign control in NACE division 27

729 registered companies

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €23.7m awarded 184 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Onderzoeksproject
  • Federal transfers 3.2m amount as published 5 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies voor de verbetering van telecommunicatieconnectiviteit
  • EU budget €32.1m attributed share 11 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €51.9m EU contribution 21 recipients · 2008 to 2026 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Manufacture of electrical equipment

Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 8.0% is below Belgium's 15.9%. 8.3% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Liquidity of 1.87 is above Belgium's 1.66.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.4% is above Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 15.1 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. In 12 months, 3.1 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 84% of the 87 NACE divisions. 16.3% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 34.2% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 2,562 of the 3,482 FTE: 73.6%.

Direction. The median net result rose from €13,744 in financial year 2020 to €17,563 in financial year 2025.

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 27110 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.

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.