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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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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 60 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
SHAPES MACHINING from Kuurne, company number BE0451019217, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -385,889 after tax. For that financial year SHAPES MACHINING recorded a gross margin of € 1.2 million and equity of € 2.2 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -363,764 to € -385,889. The company made a loss. 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 July 27, 2026.
€ 2.2 million
▲ € 2.4 million vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -385,889
▼ 6 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 137,107
▲ 1% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -1.3 million.
People and assets in 2025
17.2
▼ 3.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.1 million
▼ 7% vs 2024
€ 66,600 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.
€ 320,136
▼ 32% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 320,136.
Debts at end 2025
€ 591,290
▼ 16% vs 2024
€ 128,974 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 163,997
▲ 147% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 154,395
▲ 17% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 1,387,962 | € 1,427,833 | € 1,306,209 | € 1,171,236 | ▼ 10% |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,950 | € -150,660 | € -363,764 | € -385,889 | ▼ € 22,124 |
| Equity | € 303,488 | € 152,828 | € -210,936 | € 2,157,264 | ▲ € 2.4 million |
| Total debts | € 3,194,384 | € 3,699,519 | € 3,669,612 | € 909,682 | ▼ 75% |
| Cash | € 189,099 | € 137,088 | € 135,177 | € 137,107 | ▲ 1% |
| Land & buildings | € 31,087 | € 22,511 | € 18,019 | € 10,198 | ▼ 43% |
| Retained profit | € -448,104 | € -598,764 | € -962,528 | € -1,348,417 | ▼ € 385,889 |
| Bank debt | € 175,070 | € 730,884 | € 703,459 | € 591,290 | ▼ 16% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,497,872 | € 3,852,348 | € 3,458,675 | € 3,066,947 | ▼ 11% |
| Employees (FTE) | 18.9 | 20.2 | 20.4 | 17.2 | ▼ 3.2 |
Key figures of SHAPES MACHINING, 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 SHAPES MACHINING?
What happened at SHAPES MACHINING in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 385,889. Source: NBB ↗
- Shapes Immo NV stepped down as director. NBB
- New establishment in Kuurne. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 2,950 profit in 2022 to € 385,889 loss in 2025.
Paid € 1,912 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 2,950 profit.
On average € 68,100 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of SHAPES METALWORKS, SHAPES METALWORKS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
SHAPES MACHININGThe shares are held by SHAPES METALWORKS (100%) and SHAPES METALWORKS (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Dirk Haerinck
· until 2026
Shareholders
100%
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Noordlaan 35
8520 Kuurne
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
All companies at this address →What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0451.019.217
- VAT number
- BE 0451.019.217
- Registered office
- Noordlaan 35, 8520 Kuurne
- Names & denominations
- SHAPES MACHINING
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 28 September 1993
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 26 Aug 2025
- Activities · NACE
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