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NACE 72109
Enterprises1,189
Bankruptcies (5y)14
Failure rate1.18%

Nationally 1.50% of enterprises go bankrupt within five years; this failure rate is higher than that of 53% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 72 is 0.4%, against 0.5% nationally, over 1,425 scored companies.

Key figures for NACE division 72

fiscal year 2025 · median over 906 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
58.0%
higher than 95% of 79 divisions
Median equity
€254k
higher than 75% of 79 divisions
Median net result
€22k
higher than 72% of 79 divisions
Annual accounts in sample
906

Regional split

by region · 1,041 of 1,189 enterprises with a registered office on file
Vlaanderen 520 · 50.0%
Wallonië 322 · 30.9%
Brussel 187 · 18.0%
Unknown 12 · 1.2%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
23-06-2026 Airlam
BE 0739.575.411
17-04-2026 ARTIALIS
BE 0830.584.472
09-03-2026 STRATICELL SCREENING TECHNOLOGIES
BE 0872.072.956
13-02-2026 CYTéVIE
BE 0474.812.921
07-05-2025 Green Energy Associates
BE 1002.154.411
07-04-2025 TOMALGAE
BE 0537.531.636
02-04-2025 PEPRIC
BE 0811.123.007
31-03-2025 Caelus Health
BE 0669.652.168

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 187
How these figures are counted

Enterprises are counted by their primary NACE; establishment units are not counted. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 72109 exists.

Bankruptcies and the failure rate are attributed by each company's current primary NACE, not the NACE at the time of bankruptcy (which the gazette does not record).

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 72, not NACE 72109 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Medians over NBB annual accounts, all schema types combined.