Warning lights
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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Board fully replaced NBB
No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2025.
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Busy address KBO
36 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Metis Instruments & Equipment from Leuven, company number BE0463502820, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -119,519 after tax. For that financial year Metis Instruments & Equipment recorded a gross margin of € 466,525 and equity of € 1.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -10,278 to € -119,519. 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 August 3, 2026.
€ 1.3 million
▼ 8% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -119,519
▼ 1063 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 168,196
▼ 4% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 947,963.
People and assets in 2025
7.5
▼ 0.5 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 473,418
▼ 11% vs 2024
€ 63,100 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.
€ 3,028
▼ 36% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 17,638
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 111,652
▲ 9% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 54,485
▲ 3% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 877,800 | € 401,010 | € 690,914 | € 466,525 | ▼ 32% |
| Profit after taxes | € 167,867 | € -279,773 | € -10,278 | € -119,519 | ▼ € 109,241 |
| Equity | € 1,713,954 | € 1,434,181 | € 1,423,903 | € 1,304,383 | ▼ 8% |
| Total debts | € 730,225 | € 587,622 | € 801,664 | € 229,295 | ▼ 71% |
| Cash | € 270,482 | € 249,551 | € 176,048 | € 168,196 | ▼ 4% |
| Retained profit | € 1,357,534 | € 1,077,761 | € 1,067,483 | € 947,963 | ▼ 11% |
| Bank debt | € 36,000 | € 0 | € 17,689 | € 17,638 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,444,179 | € 2,021,802 | € 2,225,567 | € 1,533,678 | ▼ 31% |
| Employees (FTE) | 8.5 | 8.1 | 8 | 7.5 | ▼ 0.5 |
Key figures of Metis Instruments & Equipment, 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 Metis Instruments & Equipment?
What happened at Metis Instruments & Equipment in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 119,519. filed late Source: NBB ↗
- 4MITEC BV stepped down as director. NBB
- Michael Brand became a director. NBB
- Kevin Kurtz became a director. NBB
- 4MITEC BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Leuven. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 167,867 profit in 2022 to € 119,519 loss in 2025.
Paid € 50,230 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 167,867 profit.
On average € 62,200 of value added per employee in 2025.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
The stake of GEMMA FRISIUS-FONDS KU LEUVEN, ZENITH comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Metis Instruments & EquipmentBehind Metis Instruments & Equipment are Michael Brand and Kevin Kurtz. The shares are held by GEMMA FRISIUS-FONDS KU LEUVEN (10.7%) and ZENITH (8.5%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Michael Brand
Director
since 2025
Kevin Kurtz
Director
since 2025
Managing director · represented by Luc Van Bockstal
since 2020 · until 2026
Shareholders
8.5%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kapeldreef 60
3001 Leuven
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- Company number
- 0463.502.820
- VAT number
- BE 0463.502.820
- Registered office
- Kapeldreef 60, 3001 Leuven
- Names & denominations
- Metis Instruments & Equipment · METIS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 5 June 1998
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Contact
- metis.be
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