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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 17.7 to 14.4.
Financials
Financial year 2025
IONICS from Herstal, company number BE0544931548, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -1.4 million after tax. For that financial year IONICS recorded revenue of € 4.2 million and equity of € 1.7 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -1.3 million to € -1.4 million. The company made a loss. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 57 % below last year. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 30, 2026.
€ 1.7 million
▼ 57% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -1.4 million
▼ 14 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 131,332
▼ 84% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -10.1 million.
People and assets in 2025
14.4
▼ 1.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.2 million
▼ 7% vs 2024
€ 84,000 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.
€ 47,674
▼ 37% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 45,184.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.5 million
▲ 17% vs 2024
€ 753,330 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 952,025
▲ 18% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 87 days on average.
€ 243,227
▲ 20% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 2,721,384 | € 3,947,301 | € 3,353,473 | € 4,240,469 | ▲ 26% |
| Profit after taxes | € -1,471,859 | € 950,417 | € -1,262,963 | € -1,445,734 | ▼ € 182,771 |
| Equity | € 3,749,207 | € 6,233,432 | € 4,051,873 | € 1,749,585 | ▼ 57% |
| Total debts | € 4,473,921 | € 2,653,742 | € 2,790,037 | € 3,176,332 | ▲ 14% |
| Cash | € 264,381 | € 1,134,621 | € 841,257 | € 131,332 | ▼ 84% |
| Land & buildings | € 460,689 | € 428,168 | € 395,646 | € 363,125 | ▼ 8% |
| Retained profit | € -8,342,916 | € -7,392,500 | € -8,655,463 | € -10,101,197 | ▼ € 1.4 million |
| Bank debt | € 2,771,961 | € 1,416,723 | € 1,283,227 | € 1,506,521 | ▲ 17% |
| Balance sheet total | € 8,257,324 | € 8,921,370 | € 6,841,910 | € 4,925,918 | ▼ 28% |
| Employees (FTE) | 21.3 | 17.7 | 16.2 | 14.4 | ▼ 1.8 |
Key figures of IONICS, 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 IONICS?
What happened at IONICS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- AGC GLASS EUROPE S.A. stepped down as director. NBB
- BMF CONSULT SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- INVEST FOR JOBS SA stepped down as director. NBB
- Rony Snyders stepped down as director. NBB
- LL CONSULTING SRL stepped down as director. NBB
- Sparaxis SA stepped down as director. NBB
- IMBC SPINNOVA SA stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 1.4 million. Source: NBB ↗
In short
From € 1.5 million loss in 2022 to € 1.4 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 1,021 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 950,417 profit.
Pays suppliers within 87 days on average.
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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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Management
The shares are held by Materia Nova ASBL (30.3%), Invest for Jobs SA (21.9%), Wallonie Entreprendre SA (19%), IMBC SPINNOVA SA (16%), AGC GLASS EUROPE SA (9.9%) and IMBC 2020 SA (2.9%). It owns 100% of Ionics France and 49% of ESIX SURFACE TECHNOLOGIES itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Stéphane Voos, Laurent Dusoulier
Also active at: SOLTECH
since 2024 · until 2030
Chairman of the board · represented by Michel Beguin
Also active at: BFL Construct, ESIX SURFACE TECHNOLOGIES
since 2024 · until 2030
Director · represented by Johan Keppens, Nils Nijs
Also active at: Fonderies J. Marichal Ketin et Cie, GALLER HOLDING, Century 21 Benelux, MICROMEGA - DYNAMICS, NOMICS, BEER PROJECT, REIN4CED, Magics Technologies +9 more
since 2024 · until 2030
Rony Snyders
Director
since 2024 · until 2030
Managing director · represented by Luc Langer
Also active at: MATERIA NOVA, REVERSE METALLURGY, GREEN FRIX, ESIX SURFACE TECHNOLOGIES, GROUP-IPS
since 2024 · until 2030
Director · represented by Colin Loyens
Also active at: A.M.B., Floridienne, ORTIS, Barthel PAULS Fils - Barthel PAULS SOhne, RECYCLAGE ET VALORISATION TECHNIQUE, UPIGNAC, HOLZINDUSTRIE PAULS, ECOTERRES +39 more
since 2024 · until 2030
Director · represented by Serge Demoulin
Also active at: MULTITEL, EURO-MULTITEL, INNOVATION FUND, ESIX SURFACE TECHNOLOGIES, ANTOPOLIS, Vives Inter-University Fund, Rubbergreen Industrie, GATE2
since 2024 · until 2030
Shareholders
30.3%
21.9%
16%
9.9%
2.9%
0.1%
Participations
Ionics France
100%
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Rue des Alouettes 1
4042 Herstal
Rue René Descartes 1/1
7000 Mons
Active since 1 May 2014
Rue de Hermée 181
4040 Herstal
Active since 1 January 2018
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0544.931.548
- VAT number
- BE 0544.931.548
- Registered office
- Rue des Alouettes 1, 4042 Herstal
- Names & denominations
- IONICS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 31 January 2014
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
- Activities · NACE
Coating van metalen
Oppervlaktebehandeling van metalen