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Financials
Financial year 2025
Advanced Engineering Center from Charleroi, company number BE0724563373, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 136,389 after tax. For that financial year Advanced Engineering Center recorded a gross margin of € 824,678 and equity of € 5.5 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 538,112 to € 136,389. The company is profitable. 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 May 27, 2026.
€ 5.5 million
▼ 20% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 136,389
▼ 75% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.4 million
▲ € 1.1 million 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 € 248,773.
People and assets in 2025
6.5
▼ 2.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 542,397
▼ 23% vs 2024
€ 83,400 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.
€ 203,873
▼ 28% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.7 million
▼ 7% vs 2024
€ 121,451 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 6 years.
€ 1.7 million
▲ 118% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 130,960
▼ 49% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 89,316 | € 902,334 | € 1,553,412 | € 824,678 | ▼ 47% |
| Profit after taxes | € -465,559 | € 242,906 | € 538,112 | € 136,389 | ▼ 75% |
| Equity | € 81,366 | € 1,999,949 | € 6,939,673 | € 5,531,038 | ▼ 20% |
| Total debts | € 1,850,259 | € 4,817,693 | € 5,270,022 | € 6,252,146 | ▲ 19% |
| Cash | € 83,052 | € 261,314 | € 218,235 | € 1,359,180 | ▲ € 1.1 million |
| Retained profit | € -668,634 | € -425,728 | € 112,384 | € 248,773 | ▲ 121% |
| Bank debt | € 1,410,159 | € 1,129,917 | € 1,850,159 | € 1,728,708 | ▼ 7% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,931,625 | € 6,817,642 | € 12,209,695 | € 11,783,184 | ▼ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 1.2 | 5.2 | 8.9 | 6.5 | ▼ 2.4 |
Key figures of Advanced Engineering Center, 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 Advanced Engineering Center?
What happened at Advanced Engineering Center in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Abd-Samad HABBACHI stepped down as director. NBB
- SAMBRELEASE SA stepped down as director. NBB
- François Gabriel FONTAINE stepped down as director. NBB
- SAMBRINVEST SPIN-OFF/SPIN-OUT SA stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 136,389 (▼ 75% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Abd-Samad HABBACHI became a director. NBB
- SAMBRELEASE SA became a director. NBB
- François Gabriel FONTAINE became a director. NBB
In short
From € 465,559 loss in 2022 to € 136,389 profit in 2025.
Paid € 28,085 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 538,112 profit.
On average € 126,900 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of SAMBRELEASE comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Advanced Engineering CenterThe shares are held by SAMBRELEASE (99.9%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Grégoire DUPUIS
Also active at: Starter Fund, Digital Station, STEEL ESTATE
since 2021 · until 2027
François Gabriel FONTAINE
Director
since 2021 · until 2027
SAMBRINVEST SPIN-OFF/SPIN-OUT SA
Director · represented by Maxime VAN DER SCHRIK
Also active at: BE ANGELS, Brussels South Charleroi BioPark Dev, 50°NORTH VENTURES, THEODORUS III, EMAsphere, AQUILON PHARMACEUTICALS, APIQUIET, BigCaptain +25 more
since 2021 · until 2027
since 2022 · until 2028
Shareholders
99.9%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Quai Arthur Rimbaud 6
6000 Charleroi
Square des Martyrs 1
6000 Charleroi
Active since 4 April 2019
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 23 companies are registered at this address.
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€ 254,757 gross margin · 2025
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€ -10,126 gross margin · 2025
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What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0724.563.373
- VAT number
- BE 0724.563.373
- Registered office
- Quai Arthur Rimbaud 6, 6000 Charleroi
- Names & denominations
- Advanced Engineering Center · A6K
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 4 April 2019
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 20 Nov 2020
- Activities · NACE
Overige zakelijke dienstverlening, neg
Overige activiteiten van vrije beroepen en andere wetenschappelijke en technische activiteiten, neg
Overige gespecialiseerde wetenschappelijke en technische activiteiten
Verhuur en exploitatie van eigen of geleased niet-residentieel onroerend goed, exclusief terreinen
Installatie van industriële machines, toestellen en werktuigen