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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 22.9 to 20.6.
Financials
Financial year 2025
DECORMETAL from Trooz, company number BE0456156554, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -16,779 after tax. For that financial year DECORMETAL recorded a gross margin of € 1.4 million and equity of € 635,633. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -56,043 to € -16,779. The company made a loss. 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 June 30, 2026.
€ 635,633
▼ 3% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -16,779
▲ 70 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 148,819
▲ 73% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 574,133.
People and assets in 2025
20.6
▼ 0.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.1 million
▲ 4% vs 2024
€ 55,000 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.
€ 62,409
▲ 10% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 595,810
▼ 19% vs 2024
€ 161,798 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 353,968
▲ 48% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 121,806
▼ 30% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 544,336 | € 1,692,972 | € 1,268,421 | € 1,351,750 | ▲ 7% |
| Profit after taxes | € 21,630 | € 263,470 | € -56,043 | € -16,779 | ▲ € 39,264 |
| Equity | € 644,985 | € 708,455 | € 652,412 | € 635,633 | ▼ 3% |
| Total debts | € 470,057 | € 1,423,491 | € 1,157,230 | € 1,087,950 | ▼ 6% |
| Cash | € 173,335 | € 213,850 | € 86,096 | € 148,819 | ▲ 73% |
| Retained profit | € 583,485 | € 646,955 | € 590,912 | € 574,133 | ▼ 3% |
| Dividend | € 21,000 | € 200,000 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 286,736 | € 684,713 | € 734,922 | € 595,810 | ▼ 19% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,115,042 | € 2,131,946 | € 1,809,643 | € 1,723,583 | ▼ 5% |
| Employees (FTE) | 8.5 | 22.9 | 21.4 | 20.6 | ▼ 0.8 |
Key figures of DECORMETAL, 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 DECORMETAL?
What happened at DECORMETAL in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Leben-Consulting SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- Van Gils Group SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 16,779. Source: NBB ↗
- Leben-Consulting SRL became a director. NBB
- Van Gils Group SRL became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Bilzen-Hoeselt. KBO
- New establishment in Trooz. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 21,630 profit in 2022 to € 16,779 loss in 2025.
Paid € 102,973 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 263,470 profit.
On average € 65,600 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of Van Gils Group, LEBEN-CONSULTING comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
DECORMETALThe shares are held by Van Gils Group (90%) and LEBEN-CONSULTING (10%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by John Leben
since 2023 · until 2029
Director · represented by Joep Van Gils
Also active at: ImmoRAL, Limburgse Galvanisatie en Electro-Beton, METALCOATING, COATAL, Van Gils Coating, JS Coating Pelt, Van Gils Investments, RAL +4 more
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
90%
10%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue Grand'rue 1b
4870 Trooz
Industrielaan 51
3730 Bilzen-Hoeselt
Active since 1 January 2023
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0456.156.554
- VAT number
- BE 0456.156.554
- Registered office
- Rue Grand'rue 1b, 4870 Trooz
- Names & denominations
- DECORMETAL
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 5 October 1995
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Oct 2026
- Activities · NACE
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