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Installation of electric heating, air conditioning, cooling and ventilation

NACE 43222
Current registrations9,525
Starters, 12 months · division 43
11,679
Employment (FTE) · division 43
120,078
Median age · division 43
7.7 years

In NACE division 43, 9.0 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 68% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 01-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 43

fiscal year 2025 · median over 38,964 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
46.2%
higher than 61% of 79 divisions
Median equity
€79,264
lower than 71% of 79 divisions
Median net result
€12,249
lower than 61% of 79 divisions
Annual accounts in sample
38,964

Foreign control in NACE division 43

67,353 registered companies

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 43

6,827 employers
Median
€60,900
Belgium €61,000
Middle half
€51,800 to €69,300
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
56 of 78
by median staff cost per FTE
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €59,100 €49,900 to €67,600 4,503
10 to 49 FTE €63,500 €55,300 to €71,000 2,087
50 to 249 FTE €69,200 €60,400 to €77,000 208
250 FTE or more €74,900 €70,500 to €80,800 29

Bankruptcies

past five years
Bankruptcies (5y)
191
Historical share
2.01%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 67% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 43 is 1.1%, against 0.5% nationally, over 62,036 scored companies. Comparison: as of 01-10-2026 05:30.

Bankruptcies still running

NACE division 43
Running bankruptcies
2,780
Half have run longer than
22 months
Belgium: 21 months
Longer than three years
31%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 107,662 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn; 20% were still open after five years. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

Counts companies with this main activity in the register on 1 October 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector: the activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.

Outcome by court and division

Regional split

by region · 6,822 of 9,525 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 4,140 · 60.7%
Wallonia 2,239 · 32.8%
Brussels 427 · 6.3%
Unknown 16 · 0.2%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
25-09-2026 Klinkenberg, Christophe
BE 0756.409.463 · sole trader · Welkenraedt
18-09-2026 RE.NOVATIE
BE 1017.740.727
16-09-2026 Floortec
BE 0798.087.492
15-09-2026 Servolt
BE 1019.146.930
07-09-2026 MULTIJAB SERVICES
BE 1004.702.244
02-09-2026 Marnette, Gilles
BE 0713.553.180 · sole trader · Visé
31-08-2026 MT RENOV & services
BE 1005.201.201
18-08-2026 LA TEMPERATURE IDEALE
BE 0883.851.825

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 954

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €136.4m awarded 11,305 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Dienstencheques
  • Federal transfers 16.4m amount as published 16 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Toelagen OCMW's recht op maatschappelijke integratie
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €933,621 paid 4 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • EU budget €97.9m attributed share 31 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Linked to buildings
  • EU research €10.3m eu contribution 18 recipients · 2010 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 43222 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 43, not NACE 43222 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.