Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified

NACE 281

Current registrations288

Starters, 12 months · division 2882

Employment (FTE) · division 2836,654

Median age · division 2819.7 years

In NACE division 28, 3.6 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 84% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure. Comparison: as of 21-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 28

financial year 2025 · median over 1,320 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

44.6%

higher than 52% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median equity

€359,175

higher than 82% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median net result

€30,524

higher than 82% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Annual accounts in sample

1,320

Foreign control in NACE division 28

1,697 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

3.2%

54 of 1,697; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

39%

12,108 of 31,239 FTE; Belgium 15%

Main parent countries: Netherlands (12), Germany (9) and France (6).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 28

643 employers

Median

€72,500

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€60,700 to €86,300

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

22 of 78

sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€65,500	€55,400 to €81,000	286
10 to 49 FTE	€74,100	€61,900 to €86,500	252
50 to 249 FTE	€84,100	€74,800 to €95,100	91

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

1.04%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 53% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 28 is 0.3%, against 0.2% nationally, over 1,763 scored companies. Comparison: as of 21-10-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 267 of 288 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 174 · 65.2%

Wallonia 80 · 30.0%

Brussels 11 · 4.1%

Unknown 2 · 0.7%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
23-03-2026	AHS HYDRAULIEK SERVICE BE 1000.232.326
11-12-2024	DISCRI BE 0843.274.250
17-02-2023	AQUA ENERGY EUROPE BE 0875.943.454

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office

West Flanders WVL 38

East Flanders OVL 35

Antwerp ANT 62

Flemish Brabant VLB 21

Limburg LIM 18

Brussels BRU 11

Hainaut HAI 22

Walloon Brabant WBR 13

Namur NAM 6

Liège LIE 37

Luxembourg LUX 2

fewer moremax 62

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 €109.6m awarded 536 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Onderzoeksproject
Federal transfers 1.3m amount as published 4 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Steun aan het export in het raam van het OESO Verdrag aangaande export kredieten met de hulp van financiële instrumenten van commerciële of concessionele aard (cf. art. 2.14.6 en 2.14.15 van de wetsbepalingen)
EU budget €24.3m attributed share 22 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Linked to buildings
EU research €28.5m eu contribution 23 recipients · 2008 to 2026 · largest: Horizon 2020

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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 281 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 28, not NACE 281 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.