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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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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 3 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 4 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 12.7 to 6.4.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Steel Dreams from Essen, company number BE0692768852, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -257,708 after tax. For that financial year Steel Dreams recorded a gross margin of € 484,736 and equity of € -371,582. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -276,054 to € -257,708. The company made a loss. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 23, 2026.
€ -371,582
▼ € 257,708 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -257,708
▲ 7 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 8
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -1.1 million.
People and assets in 2025
6.4
▼ 4.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 425,603
▼ 30% vs 2024
€ 66,500 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.
€ 17,633
▼ 51% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 2.3 million
▼ 8% vs 2024
€ 154,596 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 13 years.
€ 102,164
▼ 33% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 49,152
▲ 13% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 661,132 | € 329,681 | € 647,087 | € 484,736 | ▼ 25% |
| Profit after taxes | € -9,033 | € -691,887 | € -276,054 | € -257,708 | ▲ € 18,346 |
| Equity | € 309,124 | € -382,763 | € -113,874 | € -371,582 | ▼ € 257,708 |
| Total debts | € 2,256,221 | € 3,387,489 | € 3,250,742 | € 3,258,860 | |
| Cash | € 82,586 | € 5,008 | € 8 | € 8 | |
| Land & buildings | € 1,899,088 | € 2,409,762 | € 2,841,388 | € 2,672,828 | ▼ 6% |
| Retained profit | € 77,924 | € -613,963 | € -865,816 | € -1,099,324 | ▼ € 233,508 |
| Bank debt | € 1,954,928 | € 2,497,831 | € 2,470,050 | € 2,284,461 | ▼ 8% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,565,345 | € 3,004,727 | € 3,136,868 | € 2,887,278 | ▼ 8% |
| Employees (FTE) | 9.4 | 12.7 | 10.7 | 6.4 | ▼ 4.3 |
Key figures of Steel Dreams, 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 Steel Dreams?
What happened at Steel Dreams in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 257,708. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Essen. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 9,033 loss in 2022 to € 257,708 loss in 2025.
Paid € 1,356 in corporate taxes since 2022.
On average € 75,700 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 Wannes.Invest comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Steel DreamsBehind Steel Dreams are WANNES.INVEST BV, Nick Van Linden and Anky Van Wesenbeeck. The shares are held by Wannes.Invest (33.3%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Wannes Kuyps
Also active at: PMV Invest, Remotive DBS, Wannes.RE, Immersive Projects
Shareholders
33.3%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Duiventorenstraat 6
2910 Essen
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 2 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0692.768.852
- VAT number
- BE 0692.768.852
- Registered office
- Duiventorenstraat 6, 2910 Essen
- Names & denominations
- Steel Dreams
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 21 March 2018
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 23 Oct 2025
- Contact
- steeldreams.be
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