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Plastering work

Current registrations 3,971division 43: 129,054
Starters, 12 months 3809.6 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 4310.8 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 1,086148 employers · latest accounts
Median age 8.6 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 91.8%3,644 of 3,971 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 43310 · financial year 2025 · 1,577 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
47.1%
division 45.2% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€9,277
division €13,172 · Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€63,755
division €82,140 · Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
25.3%
division 22.3% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
8.5%
division 7.8% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
13.2%
division 15.5% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.83
division 1.76 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
43.3%
financial year 2024, 1,615 filings · division 42.6% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
7.4%
of 1,794 companies with annual accounts · division 6.0% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 43.1%43.9%42.7%45.1%45.5%47.1%
Median net result €8,541€9,931€9,315€9,679€8,702€9,277

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
132
3.32% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
157
39.5 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
30-10-2026 BVBA DAMI
BE 0683.982.137
16-10-2026 CAROPLAK
BE 0825.335.485
15-10-2026 G. POPELIER
BE 0842.215.564
09-10-2026 Mutlu, Ilkay
BE 0597.540.388 · sole trader · Fléron
07-10-2026 AY 70
BE 1002.533.503
06-10-2026 MASTERS@WORK
BE 0891.828.490
30-09-2026 Pleisterwerken Kevin Awouters
BE 0779.813.286
28-09-2026 STUKADOORBEDRIJF PERPET
BE 0879.382.105

Every bankruptcy in division 43, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 2,280 of 3,971 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 1,641 · 72.0%
  • Wallonia 456 · 20.0%
  • Brussels 162 · 7.1%
  • Abroad 21 · 0.9%
fewer moremax 387

Largest employers

NACE 43310 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 WEYGERS TOTALE PROJECTINRICHTINGHasselt 46.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 PoelsHalen 42.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 BAENS AFWERKINGSBEDRIJFKinrooi 36.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 FADERI BELGIUMMerelbeke-Melle 35.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 ALLFACMerelbeke-Melle 33.3 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 420 companies
  • 124 Construction 392
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 175
  • 126 Furnishing and woodworking 5
  • 201 Independent retail 3
  • 121 Cleaning 2
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 2
  • 102.10 Quarries 1
  • 119 Food trade 1
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  • 120.01 Textile industry 1
  • 149.04 Metal trade 1
  • 304 Performing arts 1
  • 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 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
Joinery installation43320 19,818 1,339 153 15,344
Painting of buildings43341 7,805 691 71 2,911
Other building finishing work43350 7,270 975 85 3,238
Floor and wall tiling43331 3,901 328 58 926
Wallpapering and laying of floor and wall coverings in other materials43333 894 57 3 645
Laying of wooden floor and wall coverings43332 735 38 9 360
Show all 8 activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Specialised construction activities43343 487 24 5 966
Specialised construction activities43342 152 13 1 593

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 Plastering work

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €9,277 is below Belgium's €16,520. 8.5% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Return on equity of 13.2% is below Belgium's 15.9%.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.7% is above Belgium's 0.2%. In 12 months, 10.8 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 91% of the 88 NACE divisions.

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

Staff and filing. 43.3% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 194 of the 1,086 FTE: 17.8%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 43.1% in financial year 2020 to 47.1% 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 43310 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.