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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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 1 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 9 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Sametal from Liège, company number BE0404929171, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -1.5 million after tax. For that financial year Sametal recorded a gross margin of € 180,340 and equity of € -1.1 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -470,189 to € -1.5 million. The company made a loss. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on April 29, 2026.
€ -1.1 million
▼ € 1.5 million vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -1.5 million
▼ 228 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 2,660
▲ 33% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -1.2 million.
People and assets in 2025
6
▲ 0.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 430,612
▲ 39% vs 2024
€ 71,800 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.
€ 197,603
▼ 24% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 83,851.
Debts at end 2025
€ 45,840
▼ 46% vs 2024
€ 36,434 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 528,288
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 63,948
▲ 67% vs 2024
Wages, holiday pay and social contributions still to pay. No outstanding taxes.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 1,184,984 | € 387,453 | € 91,014 | € 180,340 | ▲ 98% |
| Profit after taxes | € 621,300 | € -144,970 | € -470,189 | € -1,540,071 | ▼ € 1.1 million |
| Equity | € 1,021,623 | € 876,654 | € 406,465 | € -1,133,606 | ▼ € 1.5 million |
| Total debts | € 1,195,630 | € 1,272,582 | € 1,795,435 | € 2,142,898 | ▲ 19% |
| Cash | € 134,933 | € 253,427 | € 2,000 | € 2,660 | ▲ 33% |
| Land & buildings | € 9,645 | € 6,520 | € 3,396 | € 271 | ▼ 92% |
| Retained profit | € 921,623 | € 776,654 | € 306,465 | € -1,233,606 | ▼ € 1.5 million |
| Dividend | € 100,000 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 190,164 | € 129,890 | € 84,463 | € 45,840 | ▼ 46% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,217,254 | € 2,149,236 | € 2,201,900 | € 1,059,292 | ▼ 52% |
| Employees (FTE) | 6 | 6.2 | 5.3 | 6 | ▲ 0.7 |
Key figures of Sametal, 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 Sametal?
What happened at Sametal in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Gerard Van Goubergen stepped down as director. NBB
- C.I.N. SA stepped down as director. NBB
- SOHOW SA stepped down as director. NBB
- Catherine WILMET stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 1.5 million. Source: NBB ↗
- Gerard Van Goubergen became a director. NBB
- C.I.N. SA became a director. NBB
- Catherine WILMET became a director. NBB
In short
From € 621,300 profit in 2022 to € 1.5 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 411 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 621,300 profit.
On average € 30,100 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of SoHoW comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
SametalThe shares are held by SoHoW (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Gerard Van Goubergen
Director
since 2025 · until 2028
Director · represented by Pierre WILMET
Also active at: General Recycling Services Europe, WILMET LUXEMBOURG, COLIMETALS, JETMETALS
since 2023 · until 2027
Managing director · represented by Jacques WILMET
Also active at: Wilmet, General Recycling Services Europe, WILMET LUXEMBOURG, Phyto Clean Halanzy
since 2019 · until 2027
Catherine WILMET
Director
Also active at: COMPAGNIE INTERNATIONALE DE NEGOCE, General Recycling Services Europe, WILMET LUXEMBOURG, GOLIAS, Phyto Clean Halanzy, SoHoW
since 2023 · until 2027
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Ecluse-de-l'Ile-Monsin 64
4020 Liège
Rue de l'Ile-Monsin 64
4020 Liège
Active since 28 June 1994
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0404.929.171
- VAT number
- BE 0404.929.171
- Registered office
- Ecluse-de-l'Ile-Monsin 64, 4020 Liège
- Names & denominations
- Sametal
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 26 November 1921
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 9 Sept 2026
- Activities · NACE
Recycling van metaalafval
Terugwinning van materialen uit afval
Groothandel in ijzer- en staalschroot en in oude non-ferrometalen
Groothandel in afval en schroot
Terugwinning van metaalafval