Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified
Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 06-05-2026 | Fonderies J. Marichal Ketin et Cie
BE 0403.965.705 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 11 of 11 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 28 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 28910 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 Fonderies J. Marichal Ketin et CieLiège 138 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 Bogaerts Next EngineeringHoogstraten 76.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 FERINOX CONCEPTSambreville 7.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 ROTSAERT MACHINEBOUWKuurne 4.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 BindusGenk 1.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
Companies
11 with this main activity- Fonderies J. Marichal Ketin et Cie Liège · 138 FTE
- Bogaerts Next Engineering Hoogstraten · 76.8 FTE
- Merco Machines Merelbeke-Melle · 52.5 FTE
- FERINOX CONCEPT Sambreville · 7.0 FTE
- ROTSAERT MACHINEBOUW Kuurne · 4.0 FTE
- Bindus Genk · 1.6 FTE
- Machines Rigo-Decoux Int'l Fernelmont · 0.5 FTE
- AFS SEDAN SAS SEDAN
- Greenlynx Hasselt
- Palléty Solutions Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
- P.DRawing Deerlijk
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 7 companies- 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 7
- 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 6
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 28: Machinery and equipment
Related activities
6 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28990 | 340 | 12 | 3 | 2,941 |
| Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28930 | 126 | 4 | 1 | 548 |
| Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28940 | 46 | 2 | 0 | 1,323 |
| Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28920 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 128 |
| Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28960 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified28950 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 172 |
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 28 · financial year 2025 · 1,650 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 9 | 11 | 18 | 9 | 18 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 21 | 9 | 10 |
| Jobs lost | 58 | 138 | 241 | 17 | 281 | 13 | 39 | 36 | 86 | 31 | 29 | 119 |
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
645 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €65,400 | €55,100 to €80,900 | 287 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €74,100 | €62,300 to €86,500 | 252 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €83,500 | €74,900 to €95,000 | 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
1,697 registered companiesSubsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €109.5m awarded
- Federal transfers 1.3m amount as published
- EU budget €24.3m attributed share
- EU research €28.5m EU contribution
Insights on Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified
Inflow and structure. This activity holds 0.5% of the registrations of Machinery and equipment.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 228 of the 228 FTE: 99.8%.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 09-11-2026 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 28910 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 1,276,461 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,442 registrations publish no activity.
For NACE 28910, 9 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.