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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 36 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Plastics Wauters from Charleroi, company number BE0411961374, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -1.1 million after tax. For that financial year Plastics Wauters recorded a gross margin of € 905,562 and equity of € 3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 153,889 to € -1.1 million. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on September 30, 2026.
€ 3 million
▼ 27% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -1.1 million
▼ still € 153,889 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 211,044
▼ 71% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 2.4 million.
People and assets in 2025
34.2
▲ 2.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.6 million
▲ 12% vs 2024
€ 46,800 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.
€ 365,862
▲ 18% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 112,742.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.1 million
▲ 60% vs 2024
€ 150,147 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 11 years.
€ 310,635
▼ 46% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 308,911
▲ 17% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 2,187,830 | € 1,669,432 | € 1,655,091 | € 905,562 | ▼ 45% |
| Profit after taxes | € 217,906 | € 125,820 | € 153,889 | € -1,082,802 | ▼ € 1.2 million |
| Equity | € 6,911,027 | € 3,965,247 | € 4,144,803 | € 3,037,002 | ▼ 27% |
| Total debts | € 1,069,225 | € 3,707,589 | € 5,353,290 | € 5,954,237 | ▲ 11% |
| Cash | € 1,510,013 | € 660,202 | € 729,674 | € 211,044 | ▼ 71% |
| Land & buildings | € 261,271 | € 205,247 | € 1,055 | € 43 | ▼ 96% |
| Retained profit | € 3,178,109 | € 3,299,249 | € 3,453,806 | € 2,371,004 | ▼ 31% |
| Bank debt | € 99,294 | € 72,769 | € 1,299,568 | € 2,081,156 | ▲ 60% |
| Balance sheet total | € 7,980,252 | € 7,672,835 | € 9,498,094 | € 8,991,239 | ▼ 5% |
| Employees (FTE) | 32.3 | 32.3 | 31.5 | 34.2 | ▲ 2.7 |
Key figures of Plastics Wauters, 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 Plastics Wauters?
What happened at Plastics Wauters in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 1.1 million (▼ € 1.2 million vs 2024). filed late Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Charleroi. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
- New establishment in Charleroi. KBO
In short
From € 217,906 profit in 2022 to € 1.1 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 221,426 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 217,906 profit.
On average € 26,500 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of GROUPE WAUTERS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Plastics WautersBehind Plastics Wauters are NEXUS CONNECT SRL, U-NICOM SRL, WAUTERS MANAGEMENT ADVISORY SRL, JOPRO MANAGEMENT SRL, WILLY WAUTERS and MARC WAUTERS. The shares are held by GROUPE WAUTERS (100%). It owns 7% of WANT YOU HOLDING itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by FRANCOIS XAVIER WAUTERS
Also active at: ATELIERS WAUTERS, GROUPE WAUTERS
WAUTERS MANAGEMENT ADVISORY SRL
Director · represented by BASTIEN WAUTERS
Also active at: GROUPE WAUTERS
MARC WAUTERS
Managing director
Also active at: IMMO WAUTERS, Comptoir Industriel du Caoutchouc, GROUPE WAUTERS, DÔME INVEST
Shareholders
100%
Participations
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue Bernipré 14
6041 Charleroi
Rue des Cayats 54
6001 Charleroi
Active since 1 January 1972
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0411.961.374
- VAT number
- BE 0411.961.374
- Registered office
- Rue Bernipré 14, 6041 Charleroi
- Names & denominations
- Plastics Wauters
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 17 January 1972
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Nov 2020
- Contact
- [email protected] 071/600400
- Activities · NACE
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