Financials
Financial year 2025
V.A.C. MACHINES from Brugge, company number BE0433131724, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 3.5 million after tax. For that financial year V.A.C. MACHINES recorded revenue of € 42.6 million and equity of € 6.6 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 4.5 million to € 3.5 million. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on April 16, 2026.
€ 6.6 million
▲ 22% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 3.5 million
▼ 23% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 8.2 million
▲ 21% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 2.3 million paid out
66 % of the profit went to the shareholders, mostly to PARTICLE (100 % of the shares). That is where the money ends up.
People and assets in 2025
32.5
▲ 1.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 3.5 million
€ 107,000 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.
€ 780,365
▲ 7% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 4.9 million
▼ 41% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 52 days on average.
€ 1.2 million
▼ 25% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 29,903,131 | € 48,237,540 | € 47,758,033 | € 42,593,104 | ▼ 11% |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,634,285 | € 3,977,636 | € 4,473,901 | € 3,453,570 | ▼ 23% |
| Equity | € 4,176,589 | € 4,804,225 | € 5,378,125 | € 6,551,695 | ▲ 22% |
| Total debts | € 24,868,475 | € 26,344,491 | € 24,853,587 | € 12,469,083 | ▼ 50% |
| Cash | € 16,257,355 | € 15,222,818 | € 6,815,947 | € 8,223,422 | ▲ 21% |
| Retained profit | € 4,115,089 | € 4,742,725 | € 5,316,625 | € 6,490,195 | ▲ 22% |
| Dividend | € 2,350,000 | € 3,350,000 | € 3,900,000 | € 2,280,000 | ▼ 42% |
| Balance sheet total | € 30,229,424 | € 32,716,632 | € 31,530,423 | € 20,650,693 | ▼ 35% |
| Employees (FTE) | 29.8 | 29.9 | 31.3 | 32.5 | ▲ 1.2 |
Key figures of V.A.C. MACHINES, 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 V.A.C. MACHINES?
What happened at V.A.C. MACHINES in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Particle BV BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 3.5 million (▼ 23% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Particle BV BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Brugge. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 2.6 million profit in 2022 to € 3.5 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 4.6 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 4.5 million profit.
Paid out € 11.9 million in dividends to the owners in total.
Management
The stake of PARTICLE comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
V.A.C. MACHINESThe shares are held by PARTICLE (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Karel Vincke
Also active at: WERKHUIZEN D'HAENE, CENTRIC OOSTKAMP, WULLOK, WULLOK CONSTRUCT
since 2024 · until 2030
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kleine Pathoekeweg 13-15
8000 Brugge
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
- 0433.131.724
- VAT number
- BE 0433.131.724
- Registered office
- Kleine Pathoekeweg 13-15, 8000 Brugge
- Names & denominations
- V.A.C. MACHINES
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 18 January 1988
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 29 Oct 2025
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