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Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified

NACE 28296 · division 28 Machinery and equipment
Current registrations 17division 28: 2,288
Employment (FTE) 824 employers · latest accounts

No starter in the past twelve months. No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Spread across the country

by region and province · 16 of 17 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 12 · 75.0%
  • Wallonia 4 · 25.0%
fewer moremax 4

The balance sheets of division 28 on the map, by municipality and down to the address

Largest employers

NACE 28296 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 DIBOArendonk 51.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 RALEeklo 15.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 AKWA PLUSWingene 8.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 KAUFFMAN CLEANINGAywaille 7.5 FTEfinancial year 2025

Companies

17 with this main activity

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 9 companies
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 5
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 4
  • 112 Garages 1
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 1
  • 149.04 Metal trade 1
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 1
  • 201 Independent retail 1
  • 302 Hotels and catering 1

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

Division 28: Machinery and equipment

Related activities

11 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28250 455 15 2 2,741
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28220 240 4 3 5,370
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28299 212 7 2 1,612
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28295 62 0 0 398
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28210 55 1 1 358
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28291 44 0 1 948
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Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28230 29 0 0 331
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28293 24 1 1 663
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28292 19 1 0 154
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28294 14 1 0 10
Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28240 12 0 0 83

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 28 · financial year 2025 · 1,648 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
44.5%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€34,903
Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€464,801
Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
24.3%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
8.3%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
11.2%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.78
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
32.2%
financial year 2024, 1,356 filings · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
3.8%
of 1,762 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --41.2%42.6%41.9%44.2%45.3%44.6%
Median net result --€29,698€38,432€40,447€37,141€31,434€30,166
Filed late 30.5%37.1%35.7%35.1%35.5%33.8%32.2%-

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Bankruptcies per year in division 28

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies9111891813811721910
Jobs lost5813824117281133936863129119

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 28

646 employers
Median
€72,500
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€60,800 to €86,400
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
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €65,400 €55,100 to €80,900 287
10 to 49 FTE €74,100 €62,100 to €86,500 253
50 to 249 FTE €84,200 €74,900 to €95,400 92

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Foreign control in NACE division 28

1,696 registered companies
Companies with a foreign parent
3.2%
55 of 1,696; Belgium 0.3%
Staff at those companies
39%
12,151 of 31,210 FTE; Belgium 14%

Main parent countries: Netherlands (12), Germany (9) and France (7).Show on the map by municipality

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €109.5m awarded 535 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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Insights on Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified

Inflow and structure. This activity holds 0.7% of the registrations of Machinery and equipment.

Staff and filing. The 4 largest employers hold 82 of the 82 FTE: 100.0%.

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 28296 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.

For NACE 28296, 13 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.

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