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Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 20.9 to 16.7.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Cuprochimique from Aalst, company number BE0400021268, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 235,043 after tax. For that financial year Cuprochimique recorded revenue of € 18.5 million and equity of € 9.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -408,798 to € 235,043. Profitable, and profit is growing. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on April 30, 2026.
€ 9.5 million
▼ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 235,043
▲ still € 408,798 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.1 million
▼ 68% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 650,000 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
16.7
▼ 2.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.1 million
▼ 21% vs 2024
€ 67,700 per full-time equivalent. Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 306,657
▼ 40% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 217,577.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.1 million
▲ € 1.9 million vs 2024
€ 48,772 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 2.7 million
▲ 27% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 59 days on average.
€ 484,908
▼ 44% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 49,452,320 | € 29,496,512 | € 18,439,419 | € 18,499,449 | |
| Profit after taxes | € 3,914,922 | € 1,500,072 | € -408,798 | € 235,043 | ▲ € 643,842 |
| Equity | € 9,225,034 | € 10,325,107 | € 9,928,639 | € 9,513,682 | ▼ 4% |
| Total debts | € 9,873,214 | € 3,580,440 | € 3,242,522 | € 5,295,903 | ▲ 63% |
| Cash | € 1,222,258 | € 663,940 | € 3,320,240 | € 1,053,125 | ▼ 68% |
| Retained profit | € 8,701,298 | € 9,801,370 | € 9,404,903 | € 8,989,946 | ▼ 4% |
| Dividend | € 400,000 | € 400,000 | € 400,000 | € 650,000 | ▲ 63% |
| Bank debt | € 3,132,156 | € 423,833 | € 196,277 | € 2,074,190 | ▲ € 1.9 million |
| Balance sheet total | € 19,526,362 | € 14,365,253 | € 13,177,814 | € 14,816,238 | ▲ 12% |
| Employees (FTE) | 20.2 | 20.9 | 19.4 | 16.7 | ▼ 2.7 |
Key figures of Cuprochimique, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 April 2027.
What happened to Cuprochimique?
What happened at Cuprochimique in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- EUROPEAN METALS GROUP NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Stéphanie VAN KERREBROECK stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 235,043. Source: NBB ↗
- EUROPEAN METALS GROUP NV became a director. NBB
- Stéphanie VAN KERREBROECK became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Aalst. KBO
In short
From € 3.9 million profit in 2022 to € 235,043 profit in 2025.
Paid € 2.7 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 3.9 million profit.
Paid out € 1.9 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of EUROPEAN METALS GROUP comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
CuprochimiqueThe shares are held by EUROPEAN METALS GROUP (46%). It owns 100% of European Metal Supplies SARL itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Managing director · represented by David TAVERNIER
since 2025 · until 2028
since 2021 · until 2027
Shareholders
Participations
European Metal Supplies SARL
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Wijngaardveld 16
9300 Aalst
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
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Hosting
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Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0400.021.268
- VAT number
- BE 0400.021.268
- Registered office
- Wijngaardveld 16, 9300 Aalst
- Names & denominations
- Cuprochimique
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 23 January 1945
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Oct 2026
- Contact
- cupro.be [email protected] 09 255 96 96
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