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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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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 48 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 73.9 to 62.3.
Financials
Financial year 2025
MECASPRING from Herstal, company number BE0476963945, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -69,301 after tax. For that financial year MECASPRING recorded revenue of € 9.6 million and equity of € 1.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 123,765 to € -69,301. 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 May 29, 2026.
€ 1.5 million
▼ 7% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -69,301
▼ still € 123,765 profit in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 121,720
▲ 132% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € 904,189.
People and assets in 2025
62.3
▼ 6.7 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 3.3 million
▼ 18% vs 2024
€ 53,400 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.
€ 1.4 million
▼ 14% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 1.4 million.
Debts at end 2025
€ 3.8 million
▼ 14% vs 2024
€ 892,469 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 1.7 million
▲ 18% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 113 days on average.
€ 354,649
▲ 13% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Revenue | € 10,870,115 | € 12,111,435 | € 10,396,217 | € 9,616,140 | ▼ 8% |
| Profit after taxes | € 62,321 | € 213,821 | € 123,765 | € -69,301 | ▼ € 193,067 |
| Equity | € 1,344,213 | € 1,509,299 | € 1,587,094 | € 1,480,094 | ▼ 7% |
| Total debts | € 7,429,307 | € 7,600,630 | € 6,180,183 | € 6,263,692 | ▲ 1% |
| Cash | € 401,665 | € 444,751 | € 52,447 | € 121,720 | ▲ 132% |
| Land & buildings | € 536,493 | € 533,640 | € 487,917 | € 449,653 | ▼ 8% |
| Retained profit | € 635,904 | € 849,725 | € 973,490 | € 904,189 | ▼ 7% |
| Bank debt | € 6,012,040 | € 5,654,256 | € 4,368,907 | € 3,771,606 | ▼ 14% |
| Balance sheet total | € 9,003,872 | € 9,325,149 | € 7,837,487 | € 7,803,989 | |
| Employees (FTE) | 75.2 | 73.9 | 69 | 62.3 | ▼ 6.7 |
Key figures of MECASPRING, 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 MECASPRING?
What happened at MECASPRING in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Valérie GENDEBIEN stepped down as director. NBB
- R.A.T. INVESTMENT SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- OVIUM SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- GROUPE MECA SA stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 69,301 (▼ € 193,067 vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Valérie GENDEBIEN became a director. NBB
- R.A.T. INVESTMENT SRL became a director. NBB
- OVIUM SRL became a director. NBB
In short
From € 62,321 profit in 2022 to € 69,301 loss in 2025.
Paid € 264,054 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 213,821 profit.
Pays suppliers within 113 days on average.
Management
The stake of SEM MANAGEMENT, GROUPE MECA comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
MECASPRINGThe shares are held by SEM MANAGEMENT (99%) and GROUPE MECA (1%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Valérie GENDEBIEN
Director
Also active at: Exploitations Forestières Georges HUET, ALUBERT, HUSIBO, TIVATOME, GROUPE MECA, SEM MANAGEMENT, CARABI
since 2024 · until 2031
Director · represented by Emmanuel SCHELLEKENS
Also active at: TRITONE, CEVEMA SURFACE TREATMENTS, SEM MANAGEMENT
since 2021 · until 2027
Director · represented by Julien PAPART
Also active at: Vanhulen High Precision Springs, TRITONE
since 2022 · until 2028
Director · represented by Pierre SCHAAPS
Also active at: Vanhulen High Precision Springs, TRITONE
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
99%
1%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Prolongement de l'Abbaye 86
4040 Herstal
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 1 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0476.963.945
- VAT number
- BE 0476.963.945
- Registered office
- Prolongement de l'Abbaye 86, 4040 Herstal
- Names & denominations
- MECASPRING
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 26 February 2002
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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