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Specialised construction activities

Current registrations 151division 43: 129,047
Starters, 12 months 138.6 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 16.6 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 59311 employers · latest accounts
Median age 9.6 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 92.1%139 of 151 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%
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This view shows Belgium · 43342 · Specialised construction activities. Sector figures are national, so the place does not apply here.

Filed accounts

NACE 43342 · financial year 2025 · 57 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
50.6%
division 45.2% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€13,362
division €13,159 · Belgium €16,490
Median equity
€147,513
division €82,095 · Belgium €98,313
Loss-making
14.0%
division 22.4% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
8.8%
division 7.8% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
16.6%
division 15.5% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
2.00
division 1.76 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
41.9%
financial year 2024, 62 filings · division 42.6% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
12.3%
of 65 companies with annual accounts · division 6.0% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 31.6%37.5%40.8%39.8%42.6%50.6%
Median net result €19,355€16,882€19,055€19,357€11,696€13,362

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
4
2.65% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
6
39.7 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
04-08-2026 KOZAN BOUW
BE 0732.940.908
19-02-2025 CRP Consultancy
BE 0801.758.349
18-12-2024 De Baets, Etienne
BE 0645.459.774 · sole trader · Stekene
16-05-2023 PNovation
BE 0691.710.661

Every bankruptcy in division 43, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 86 of 151 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 71 · 82.6%
  • Wallonia 11 · 12.8%
  • Brussels 4 · 4.7%
fewer moremax 26

Largest employers

NACE 43342 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 IRIS INDUSTRY SOLUTIONSGeel 277 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 MONNAIELa Louvière 186 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 Les Entreprises Yvo RinaldiFlémalle 41.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 FENDOORSFleurus 38.1 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 DE MEDTS SERVICESWijnegem 17.1 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 17 companies
  • 124 Construction 16
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 9
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 4
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 2
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
  • 109 Clothing and garment industry 1
  • 121 Cleaning 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 19,814 1,342 153 15,346
Painting of buildings43341 7,804 694 71 2,911
Other building finishing work43350 7,268 976 85 3,238
Plastering work43310 3,972 381 43 1,084
Floor and wall tiling43331 3,901 330 58 926
Wallpapering and laying of floor and wall coverings in other materials43333 894 57 3 644
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Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Laying of wooden floor and wall coverings43332 735 38 9 360
Specialised construction activities43343 485 24 5 971

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

6,825 employers
Median
€61,500
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€52,500 to €69,800
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
55 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 €64,000 €55,800 to €71,500 2,079
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
2,786
Half have run longer than
21 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
31%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,651 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 10 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 67,053 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 101,515 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 11,262 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Vlaamse ondersteuningspremie (VOP) voor werkgevers (uitdovend stelsel)
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €933,621 paid 4 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • Federal transfers 15.2m amount as published 17 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Samenwerkingsakkoord Beliris - Kapitaaloverdracht overheidsbedrijven.
  • 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 Specialised construction activities

Balance sheet and result. 14.0% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium. 8.8% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Liquidity of 2.00 is above Belgium's 1.66.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.5% is above Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Flanders holds 82.6% of the seats, against 64.7% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 9.6 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. This activity holds 0.1% of the registrations of Specialised construction.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 560 of the 593 FTE: 94.4%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 31.6% in financial year 2020 to 50.6% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €19,355 in financial year 2020 to €13,362 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 11-11-2026 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 43342 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 1,276,472 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,781 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.