Warning lights
Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
-
Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 3.7 to 2.5.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Aciers Crustin from Verviers, company number BE0402324920, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 300,172 after tax. For that financial year Aciers Crustin recorded a gross margin of € 498,099 and equity of € 969,685. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 285,502 to € 300,172. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 58 % below last year. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 9, 2026.
€ 969,685
▼ 58% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 300,172
▲ 5% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 165,919
▼ 9% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1.7 million paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
2.5
▼ 0.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 153,985
▼ 23% vs 2024
€ 61,600 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.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 94,733
▼ 35% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 25,204
▼ 28% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
Want to see how much further we take a dossier in the Pro version? Open the free De Lijn example and give feedback →
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 851,974 | € 778,742 | € 571,291 | € 498,099 | ▼ 13% |
| Profit after taxes | € 483,268 | € 376,798 | € 285,502 | € 300,172 | ▲ 5% |
| Equity | € 1,657,214 | € 2,034,012 | € 2,319,514 | € 969,685 | ▼ 58% |
| Total debts | € 82,842 | € 198,038 | € 180,028 | € 1,769,937 | ▲ € 1.6 million |
| Cash | € 124,665 | € 159,153 | € 181,772 | € 165,919 | ▼ 9% |
| Land & buildings | € 37,649 | € 36,315 | € 34,980 | € 33,646 | ▼ 4% |
| Retained profit | € 1,595,240 | € 1,972,038 | € 2,257,540 | € 907,712 | ▼ 60% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 1,650,000 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,740,056 | € 2,232,049 | € 2,499,542 | € 2,739,623 | ▲ 10% |
| Employees (FTE) | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 2.5 | ▼ 0.8 |
Key figures of Aciers Crustin, 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 Aciers Crustin?
What happened at Aciers Crustin in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Willem Frederik BAAN stepped down as director. NBB
- Paul VAN DER REST stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 300,172 (▲ 5% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Willem Frederik BAAN became a director. NBB
- Paul VAN DER REST became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Verviers. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 483,268 profit in 2022 to € 300,172 profit in 2025.
Paid € 486,574 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 483,268 profit.
On average € 199,200 of value added per employee in 2025.
A new publication or filing at Aciers Crustin? We notify you, reason included.
Follow Aciers CrustinDatabakkes Pro
Know what changes at your customers, suppliers and competitors. Without reading an annual account.
- Follow them in one folder Every company in your folder gets this full dossier: household book, all fiscal years, benchmark against companies of the same size.
- We alert you, with the reason New annual account, Official Gazette publication or status change: you get what changed and where it says so.
- In bulk too, and in ChatGPT and Claude Upload your customer list and get the warning signs back per company. Or ask in your own AI assistant, with this register as the source.
Databakkes Pro is being built. Sign up now and you are first in line for an invitation, with a month to try without a credit card.
De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
Open the dossier →
NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
The stake of Produits pour le Commerce et l'Industrie comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Aciers CrustinThe shares are held by Produits pour le Commerce et l'Industrie (99.5%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Willem Frederik BAAN
Director
Also active at: VERMEIRE TRANSMISSIONS, Rubix, VERMEIRE AANDRIJVINGEN, BEDU BELGIUM
since 2022 · until 2028
Paul VAN DER REST
Chairman of the board
Also active at: VERMEIRE TRANSMISSIONS, Rubix, VERMEIRE AANDRIJVINGEN, BEDU BELGIUM
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue Simon Lobet 56
4800 Verviers
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
Microsoft 365
Hosting
PROXIMUS-ISP-AS, BE
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0402.324.920
- VAT number
- BE 0402.324.920
- Registered office
- Rue Simon Lobet 56, 4800 Verviers
- Names & denominations
- Aciers Crustin
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 1 January 1958
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Contact
- crustin.be
- Activities · NACE
Groothandel in metalen en metaalertsen