Other manufacturing

NACE 325

Current registrations1,248

Starters, 12 months · division 32688

Employment (FTE) · division 329,583

Median age · division 327.0 years

In NACE division 32, 12.7 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 91% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 29-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 32

fiscal year 2025 · median over 1,003 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

43.1%

lower than 54% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€91,901

lower than 62% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€11,141

lower than 66% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

1,003

Foreign control in NACE division 32

1,700 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

1.0%

17 of 1,700; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

15%

1,072 of 7,019 FTE; Belgium 15%

Mostly from Netherlands (8), Germany (2) and France (2).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 32

112 employers of at least 10 FTE

Median

€70,100

Belgium €65,100

Middle half

€57,600 to €85,500

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

36 of 73

by median staff cost per FTE

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
10 to 49 FTE	€67,400	€57,300 to €85,400	88

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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 56% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 32 is 0.4%, against 0.5% nationally, over 1,716 scored companies. Comparison: as of 29-09-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 886 of 1,248 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 531 · 59.9%

Wallonia 255 · 28.8%

Brussels 96 · 10.8%

Unknown 4 · 0.5%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
20-08-2026	Mammoptix BE 0786.721.270
10-07-2026	DENTAL LAB 777 BE 1014.321.674
07-07-2026	Sequana Medical BE 0707.821.866
07-07-2026	DSRCo BE 1015.812.308
01-10-2025	La Sonrisa Belgica BE 0719.671.704
04-07-2025	D-WORKS BE 0637.841.118
04-07-2025	LYNX OPTIC BE 0790.993.626
23-05-2025	Synaxial BE 0546.998.143

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 77

East Flanders OVL 116

Antwerp ANT 145

Flemish Brabant VLB 110

Limburg LIM 83

Brussels BRU 96

Hainaut HAI 75

Walloon Brabant WBR 51

Namur NAM 33

Liège LIE 83

Luxembourg LUX 13

fewer moremax 145

Where does this sector's wealth sit? By municipality, down to the street

Public money in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €29.0m awarded 236 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Onderzoeksproject
Federal transfers 625,300 amount as published 1 recipient · 2023 to 2024 · 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)
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €18,400 paid 4 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Dotation à WBI dans le cadre de la promotion internationale de_x000D_ Bruxelles
EU budget €6.9m attributed share 12 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
EU research €14.7m eu contribution 13 recipients · 2009 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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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 325 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 32, not NACE 325 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.