Warning lights
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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 61 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Figures corrected NBB
Corrected annual account filed for 2022.
Financials
Financial year 2025
AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS from Verviers, company number BE0423637107, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 2.8 million after tax. For that financial year AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS recorded revenue of € 24.4 million and equity of € 11.4 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 5.5 million to € 2.8 million. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on December 24, 2025.
€ 11.4 million
▲ 11% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 2.8 million
▼ 49% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 150,564
▼ 13% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 10.7 million.
People and assets in 2025
116.2
▲ 1.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 9.2 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
€ 79,300 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.
€ 723,372
▼ 23% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 815,602
▼ 21% vs 2024
€ 710,952 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 1 years.
€ 2.6 million
▼ 37% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 72 days on average.
€ 1.7 million
▼ 23% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 20,057,715 | € 27,273,206 | € 31,206,814 | € 24,393,963 | ▼ 22% |
| Profit after taxes | € 1,322,925 | € 3,727,936 | € 5,520,711 | € 2,839,609 | ▼ 49% |
| Equity | € 4,248,718 | € 4,536,399 | € 10,268,856 | € 11,405,082 | ▲ 11% |
| Total debts | € 15,455,631 | € 16,141,725 | € 10,310,136 | € 8,902,359 | ▼ 14% |
| Cash | € 1,073,887 | € 437,804 | € 172,699 | € 150,564 | ▼ 13% |
| Land & buildings | € 64,300 | € 33,455 | € 51,915 | € 203,067 | ▲ 291% |
| Retained profit | € 4,099,345 | € 4,400,850 | € 9,442,598 | € 10,677,852 | ▲ 13% |
| Dividend | € 1,070,000 | € 3,000,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 1,624,637 | € 1,072,276 | € 1,038,339 | € 815,602 | ▼ 21% |
| Balance sheet total | € 19,875,168 | € 20,984,211 | € 21,192,568 | € 20,615,363 | ▼ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 96.3 | 104.3 | 114.8 | 116.2 | ▲ 1.4 |
Key figures of AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS, 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 January 2027.
What happened to AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS?
What happened at AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Bruno FISCHER stepped down as director. NBB
- BE HIVE srl stepped down as director. NBB
- Davide BERNARDINI stepped down as director. NBB
- Sébastien SABOURAULT stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 2.8 million (▼ 49% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Bruno FISCHER became a director. NBB
- Christian CLOSSET stepped down as director. NBB
- BE HIVE srl became a director. NBB
In short
From € 1.3 million profit in 2022 to € 2.8 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 2.4 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 5.5 million profit.
Paid out € 4.1 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS HOLDING comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
AUTOMATION & ROBOTICSThe shares are held by AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS HOLDING (100%). It owns 100% of AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS OPTICAL EQUIPMENT CHINA, 100% of A&R OPTICAL MACHINERY INC. and 100% of A&R OPTICAL EQUIPMENT THAILAND CO., LTD. itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Bruno FISCHER
Director
since 2025 · until 2027
since 2019 · until 2025
Managing director · represented by Laurent PROVOST
Also active at: BROPTIMIZE ENERGY, AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS HOLDING
since 2025 · until 2027
since 2019 · until 2025
since 2022 · until 2025
Director
Also active at: C.P. Bourg, A.M.B., Jean Goldschmidt International, Ateliers Pierre Cerfontaine, Floridienne, Fonderies J. Marichal Ketin et Cie, JUNGLING, MEBF +224 more
since 2019 · until 2025
Daniel ADAM
Director
since 2022 · until 2025
Director · represented by Valérie CLOSSET
since 2019 · until 2025
Davide BERNARDINI
Director
since 2025 · until 2027
Sébastien SABOURAULT
Director
since 2025 · until 2027
Shareholders
Participations
AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS OPTICAL EQUIPMENT CHINA
100%
A&R OPTICAL MACHINERY INC.
100%
A&R OPTICAL EQUIPMENT THAILAND CO., LTD.
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue des Ormes 111
4800 Verviers
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0423.637.107
- VAT number
- BE 0423.637.107
- Registered office
- Rue des Ormes 111, 4800 Verviers
- Names & denominations
- AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 28 January 1983
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Activities · NACE
Installatie van industriële machines, toestellen en werktuigen
Vervaardiging van apparaten voor de bewaking van industriële processen
Vervaardiging van verpakkingsmachines