Financials
Financial year 2025
AVANT MACHINERY from Sint-Truiden, company number BE0474042463, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 1.4 million after tax. For that financial year AVANT MACHINERY recorded revenue of € 29.5 million and equity of € 10.3 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 1.6 million to € 1.4 million. The company is profitable. 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 June 5, 2026.
€ 10.3 million
▲ 16% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 1.4 million
▼ 13% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 5.3 million
▲ 48% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 10.1 million.
People and assets in 2025
21.7
▲ 0.2 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.6 million
▲ 5% vs 2024
€ 73,700 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.
€ 465,560
▼ 10% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 275,649.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.3 million
▼ 17% vs 2024
€ 412,892 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 3 years.
€ 7.1 million
▲ 59% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 102 days on average.
€ 230,333
▼ 49% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 29,706,451 | € 31,900,397 | € 28,200,573 | € 29,472,966 | ▲ 5% |
| Profit after taxes | € 2,122,625 | € 1,663,230 | € 1,646,717 | € 1,433,104 | ▼ 13% |
| Equity | € 6,088,549 | € 7,248,321 | € 8,895,038 | € 10,328,141 | ▲ 16% |
| Total debts | € 9,635,171 | € 10,187,530 | € 6,518,590 | € 8,856,026 | ▲ 36% |
| Cash | € 5,880,978 | € 4,262,567 | € 3,558,059 | € 5,272,487 | ▲ 48% |
| Land & buildings | € 151,396 | € 130,267 | € 106,879 | € 83,491 | ▼ 22% |
| Retained profit | € 5,888,549 | € 7,048,321 | € 8,695,038 | € 10,128,141 | ▲ 16% |
| Dividend | € 344,029 | € 503,459 | € 0 | € 0 | |
| Bank debt | € 841,158 | € 1,717,989 | € 1,566,534 | € 1,298,589 | ▼ 17% |
| Balance sheet total | € 15,723,720 | € 17,435,851 | € 15,413,628 | € 19,184,167 | ▲ 24% |
| Employees (FTE) | 17.6 | 19.7 | 21.5 | 21.7 | ▲ 0.2 |
Key figures of AVANT MACHINERY, 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 AVANT MACHINERY?
What happened at AVANT MACHINERY in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Niels Raepers stepped down as director. NBB
- Tom Raepers stepped down as director. NBB
- Ingrid Verlaenen stepped down as director. NBB
- Stefaan Raepers stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 1.4 million (▼ 13% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Stefaan Raepers became a director. NBB
- Niels Raepers became a director. NBB
- Tom Raepers became a director. NBB
In short
From € 2.1 million profit in 2022 to € 1.4 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 2.4 million in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 2.1 million profit.
Paid out € 847,488 in dividends to the owners in total.
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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
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Niels Raepers
Director
since 2023 · until 2029
Tom Raepers
Managing director
since 2023 · until 2029
Ingrid Verlaenen
Director
since 2023 · until 2029
Stefaan Raepers
Director
since 2025 · until 2029
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Montenakenweg 525
3800 Sint-Truiden
Tiensesteenweg 240
3800 Sint-Truiden
Active since 28 February 2001
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Details
- Company number
- 0474.042.463
- VAT number
- BE 0474.042.463
- Registered office
- Montenakenweg 525, 3800 Sint-Truiden
- Names & denominations
- AVANT MACHINERY
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 9 February 2001
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 8 Aug 2025
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