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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 27.3 to 10.9.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2022.
Financials
Financial year 2025
AC Timber Trading from Gent, company number BE0400114805, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 2.6 million after tax. For that financial year AC Timber Trading recorded revenue of € 17.9 million and equity of € 4.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -620,255 to € 2.6 million. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 59 % below last year. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on August 31, 2026.
€ 4.1 million
▼ 59% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 2.6 million
▲ still € 620,255 loss in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 13,892
▼ 79% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 3.4 million paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
10.9
▼ 5.9 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 863,254
▼ 34% vs 2024
€ 79,200 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.
€ 116,385
▼ 43% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 18,010.
Debts at end 2025
€ 753,098
▼ 13% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 872,950
▲ 77% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 17 days on average.
€ 479,176
▲ € 360,991 vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 53,760,226 | € 36,182,852 | € 37,129,817 | € 17,938,884 | ▼ 52% |
| Profit after taxes | € -2,519,077 | € -3,225,480 | € -620,255 | € 2,595,354 | ▲ € 3.2 million |
| Equity | € 13,958,342 | € 10,732,863 | € 10,112,608 | € 4,140,046 | ▼ 59% |
| Total debts | € 13,788,879 | € 9,305,334 | € 1,578,495 | € 2,808,833 | ▲ 78% |
| Cash | € 117,771 | € 433,541 | € 67,519 | € 13,892 | ▼ 79% |
| Land & buildings | € 567,360 | € 520,926 | € 474,351 | € 404,245 | ▼ 15% |
| Retained profit | € 8,752,578 | € 5,527,099 | € 4,906,844 | € 4,078,546 | ▼ 17% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 3,423,652 | |
| Bank debt | € 11,620,002 | € 6,061,892 | € 863,227 | € 753,098 | ▼ 13% |
| Balance sheet total | € 27,847,221 | € 20,087,082 | € 11,691,103 | € 6,948,878 | ▼ 41% |
| Employees (FTE) | 32.1 | 27.3 | 16.8 | 10.9 | ▼ 5.9 |
Key figures of AC Timber Trading, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 July 2027.
What happened to AC Timber Trading?
What happened at AC Timber Trading in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Aqufin BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Lammertyn Logistiek Douane & Advies BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Hout-Bois Van Steenberge NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Van Steenberge Invest NV stepped down as director. NBB
- Almelior BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 2.6 million. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- Noverpo BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Hout-Bois Van Steenberge NV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 2.5 million loss in 2022 to € 2.6 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 152,803 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 2.6 million profit.
Paid out € 3.4 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of HOUT - BOIS VAN STEENBERGE, van Steenberge Invest comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
AC Timber TradingThe shares are held by Siffer Dock Company (100%), HOUT - BOIS VAN STEENBERGE and van Steenberge Invest.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Anja Quintijn
Also active at: Siffer Dock Company, HOUT - BOIS VAN STEENBERGE, van Steenberge Invest
since 2025 · until 2029
Director · represented by Jean-Pierre NOEL
Also active at: Siffer Dock Company, VAN HOOREBEKE PANELS, HOUT - BOIS VAN STEENBERGE, van Steenberge Invest, WOODPLUS
since 2023 · until 2025
Lammertyn Logistiek Douane & Advies BV
Director · represented by Luc LAMERTYN
Also active at: VAN HOOREBEKE PANELS, van Steenberge Invest, WOODPLUS
since 2023 · until 2029
Managing director · represented by CLARYSSE BENOIT
Owns 100% via Siffer Dock Company
Also active at: Siffer Dock Company, VAN HOOREBEKE PANELS
since 2025 · until 2029
Director · represented by Véronique van Steenberge
Holds a stake via HOUT - BOIS VAN STEENBERGE
Also active at: Siffer Dock Company, MARTENS, VAN HOOREBEKE PANELS, HOUT - BOIS VAN STEENBERGE, CASIMAX, Altripan Invest
since 2025 · until 2029
Director · represented by VERVAECKE BART
Also active at: KARTONNAGE LEFEVERE - BEEL, VAN HOOREBEKE PANELS, CREA PACK, VICTOR BUYCK STEEL CONSTRUCTION, HOUT - BOIS VAN STEENBERGE, DEPRO PROFILES, van Steenberge Invest, WOODPLUS
since 2025 · until 2029
Shareholders
Siffer Dock Company · holding of Hout-Bois Van Steenberge NV
100%
HOUT - BOIS VAN STEENBERGE · holding of Van Steenberge Invest NV
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Vasco da Gamalaan 1
9042 Gent
Who else lives here?
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Details
- Company number
- 0400.114.805
- VAT number
- BE 0400.114.805
- Registered office
- Vasco da Gamalaan 1, 9042 Gent
- Names & denominations
- AC Timber Trading · ACTT
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 January 1968
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 30 Dec 2025
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