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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 3 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Busy address KBO
31 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
STERIGENICS from Leuven, company number BE0427835425, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 93.9 million after tax. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 375.8 million to € 93.9 million. The company is profitable. The company holds a healthy buffer. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 27, 2026.
€ 469.5 million
▼ 1% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 93.9 million
▼ 75% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 97.6 million paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
38.1
▲ 4.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 8.5 million
▲ 9% vs 2024
€ 223,400 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.
€ 3,782
▼ 54% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 90.1 million
▼ 18% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 183,525
▼ 20% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 8 days on average.
€ 2 million
▲ 32% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit after taxes | € -1,675,804 | € 2,382,743 | € 375,822,992 | € 93,912,311 | ▼ 75% |
| Equity | € -13,965,045 | € -11,582,301 | € 473,152,288 | € 469,472,261 | ▼ 1% |
| Total debts | € 106,554,019 | € 106,762,024 | € 119,481,458 | € 125,305,113 | ▲ 5% |
| Cash | € 67 | € 12 | - | - | |
| Retained profit | € -26,416,045 | € -24,033,301 | € 351,789,691 | € 348,109,663 | ▼ 1% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | € 97,592,339 | |
| Bank debt | € 93,875,056 | € 100,332,627 | € 110,181,973 | € 90,089,405 | ▼ 18% |
| Balance sheet total | € 94,888,975 | € 97,479,722 | € 592,633,746 | € 594,777,374 | |
| Employees (FTE) | 31.7 | 30.6 | 33.6 | 38.1 | ▲ 4.5 |
Key figures of STERIGENICS, 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 STERIGENICS?
What happened at STERIGENICS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Ronald Asselberghs stepped down as director. NBB
- Robin Van Den Bergh stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 93.9 million (▼ 75% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Ronald Asselberghs became a director. NBB
- Pontus Rundstrom Lars stepped down as director. NBB
- Pontus Rundstrom Lars became a director. NBB
- Robin Van Den Bergh became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Leuven. KBO
In short
From € 1.7 million loss in 2022 to € 93.9 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 90,945 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 375.8 million profit.
Paid out € 97.6 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The shares are held by Sotera Health Holdings LLC (100%). It owns 100% of STERIGENICS SHANGHAI ETO Ltd. and 99% of Nelson Labs itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Ronald Asselberghs
Director
since 2025 · until 2031
Pontus Rundstrom Lars
Director
since 2025 · until 2025
since 2025 · until 2031
Shareholders
Sotera Health Holdings LLC
100%
Participations
STERIGENICS SHANGHAI ETO Ltd.
100%
99%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Vaartdijk 3 box 302
3018 Leuven
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Details
- Company number
- 0427.835.425
- VAT number
- BE 0427.835.425
- Registered office
- Vaartdijk 3 bus 302, 3018 Leuven
- Names & denominations
- STERIGENICS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 30 September 1985
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