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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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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 24.4 to 19.8.
Financials
Financial year 2025
DESMET MACHINEBOUW ENGINEERING from Wielsbeke, company number BE0451842529, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -75,325 after tax. For that financial year DESMET MACHINEBOUW ENGINEERING recorded a gross margin of € 1.4 million and equity of € 709,200. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -77,818 to € -75,325. 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 July 16, 2026.
€ 709,200
▼ 10% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -75,325
▲ 3 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 138,826
▼ 39% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 647,200.
People and assets in 2025
19.8
▼ 3.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.3 million
▼ 12% vs 2024
€ 66,800 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.
€ 94,116
▼ 8% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 44,136.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1 million
▼ 12% vs 2024
€ 118,148 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 693,816
▼ 11% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 216,581
▲ 1% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 1,705,966 | € 1,586,960 | € 1,609,555 | € 1,443,531 | ▼ 10% |
| Profit after taxes | € 220,376 | € 315 | € -77,818 | € -75,325 | ▲ € 2,493 |
| Equity | € 862,028 | € 862,343 | € 784,525 | € 709,200 | ▼ 10% |
| Total debts | € 2,588,373 | € 2,349,439 | € 2,205,175 | € 1,984,401 | ▼ 10% |
| Cash | € 524,977 | € 129,892 | € 228,013 | € 138,826 | ▼ 39% |
| Land & buildings | € 237,919 | € 285,576 | € 327,491 | € 295,121 | ▼ 10% |
| Retained profit | € 800,028 | € 800,343 | € 722,525 | € 647,200 | ▼ 10% |
| Dividend | € 33,839 | € 0 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 1,389,519 | € 1,077,776 | € 1,152,968 | € 1,019,343 | ▼ 12% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,452,640 | € 3,213,840 | € 2,991,577 | € 2,695,297 | ▼ 10% |
| Employees (FTE) | 24.4 | 24.4 | 23.2 | 19.8 | ▼ 3.4 |
Key figures of DESMET MACHINEBOUW ENGINEERING, 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 DESMET MACHINEBOUW ENGINEERING?
What happened at DESMET MACHINEBOUW ENGINEERING in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- VinEC BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Drie-E BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Oli4D BV stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 75,325. Source: NBB ↗
- VinEC BV became a director. NBB
- Drie-E BV became a director. NBB
- Oli4D BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Wielsbeke. KBO
In short
From € 220,376 profit in 2022 to € 75,325 loss in 2025.
Paid € 2,912 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 220,376 profit.
On average € 72,900 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of DESAVO comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
DESMET MACHINEBOUW ENGINEERINGThe shares are held by DESAVO (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Wielsbeeksestraat(O) 65
8710 Wielsbeke
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
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Details
- Company number
- 0451.842.529
- VAT number
- BE 0451.842.529
- Registered office
- Wielsbeeksestraat(O) 65, 8710 Wielsbeke
- Names & denominations
- DESMET MACHINEBOUW ENGINEERING
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 4 February 1994
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 6 Jan 2026
- Contact
- desmetengineering.be
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