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Current registrations 4,010division 43: 129,054
Starters, 12 months 3759.4 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 5012.5 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 4,729244 employers · latest accounts
Median age 7.7 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 90.5%3,631 of 4,010 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 43240 · financial year 2025 · 1,463 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
43.7%
division 45.2% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€11,532
division €13,172 · Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€74,828
division €82,140 · Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
24.6%
division 22.3% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
10.5%
division 7.8% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
14.4%
division 15.5% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.72
division 1.76 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
46.7%
financial year 2024, 1,509 filings · division 42.6% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
7.5%
of 1,676 companies with annual accounts · division 6.0% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 38.4%39.9%40.1%42.4%43.5%43.7%
Median net result €12,817€13,078€12,244€13,284€11,675€11,532

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
134
3.34% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
154
38.4 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
05-11-2026 INFINITY BOUW
BE 0784.865.602
03-11-2026 Stefan, Ionut
BE 0536.717.925 · sole trader · Maldegem
30-10-2026 TECHNIPRO SERVICES
BE 0848.067.139
19-10-2026 Rénovation Entretien PRO
BE 1004.464.593
28-09-2026 Tincu, Cosmin
BE 0633.693.179 · sole trader · Etterbeek
28-09-2026 Şeremit, Abdullah
BE 0821.655.425 · sole trader · Tournai
25-09-2026 SANTERMANS LIFTEN
BE 0667.776.506
25-09-2026 Solar Empire
BE 0799.572.582

Every bankruptcy in division 43, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 2,174 of 4,010 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 1,421 · 65.4%
  • Wallonia 376 · 17.3%
  • Brussels 302 · 13.9%
  • Abroad 75 · 3.4%
fewer moremax 427

Largest employers

NACE 43240 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 Altrad ServicesBeveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht 1,099 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 TECHNORD BELGIUMTournai 304 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 TK Elevator BelgiumBrussels 281 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE-TECHNILIFTSaint-Josse-ten-Noode 267 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 OTISDilbeek 239 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 407 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 193
  • 124 Construction 166
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 76
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 54
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 51
  • 201 Independent retail 22
  • 149.04 Metal trade 14
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 13
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  • 149 Sectors related to metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 13
  • 126 Furnishing and woodworking 3
  • 145 Horticulture 3
  • 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 3
  • 109 Clothing and garment industry 2
  • 116 Chemical industry 2
  • 140 Transport and logistics 2
  • 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 2
  • 106.02 Concrete industry 1
  • 121 Cleaning 1
  • 140.04 Airport ground handling 1
  • 144 Agriculture 1

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

Division 43: Specialised construction

Related activities

8 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
General electrical installation work43211 22,605 1,904 192 20,605
Installation of electric heating, air conditioning, cooling and ventilation43222 9,483 560 74 11,724
Plumbing work43221 7,009 653 72 3,127
Insulation installation43230 4,222 590 43 2,509
Electrical installation work in industrial facilities43212 1,099 61 14 1,051
Specialised construction activities43223 527 204 3 208
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Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Specialised construction activities43213 241 94 2 1
Specialised construction activities43214 81 27 0 15

Bankruptcies per year in division 43

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies1,2381,1181,1961,2851,4069579961,3741,4961,8201,8471,294
Jobs lost2,9772,5162,6162,7092,8072,3171,9342,5412,6723,3653,3792,180

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 43

6,826 employers
Median
€61,500
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€52,500 to €69,800
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
56 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €59,800 €50,700 to €68,200 4,513
10 to 49 FTE €63,900 €55,800 to €71,400 2,080
50 to 249 FTE €70,100 €61,100 to €77,700 204
250 FTE or more €77,000 €70,500 to €82,400 29

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 43
Number
2,774
Half have run longer than
22 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
31%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,562 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 6 November 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

52 of the 67,044 companies in NACE division 43 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (18), France (9) and Germany (8). Together they employ 3,749 of the division's 101,557 FTE: 3.7%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €112.7m awarded 11,263 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Vlaamse ondersteuningspremie (VOP) voor werkgevers (uitdovend stelsel)
  • Federal transfers 15.2m amount as published 17 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Samenwerkingsakkoord Beliris - Kapitaaloverdracht overheidsbedrijven.
  • 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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Insights on Other construction installation

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €11,532 is below Belgium's €16,520. 10.5% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.8% is above Belgium's 0.2%. In 12 months, 12.5 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 93% of the 88 NACE divisions.

Inflow and structure. This activity holds 3.1% of the registrations of Specialised construction.

Staff and filing. 46.7% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 2,190 of the 4,729 FTE: 46.3%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 38.4% in financial year 2020 to 43.7% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €12,817 in financial year 2020 to €11,532 in financial year 2025.

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 43240 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.

Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.