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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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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 15.7 to 13.7.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Belgian Welding Institute Industry from Gent, company number BE0795095439, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -150,126 after tax. For that financial year Belgian Welding Institute Industry recorded a gross margin of € 1.4 million and equity of € 1.8 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -397,628 to € -150,126. The company made a loss. 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 June 19, 2026.
€ 1.8 million
▼ 8% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -150,126
▲ 62 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 700,918
▲ 2% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -739,887.
People and assets in 2025
13.7
▼ 1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.4 million
▼ 8% vs 2024
€ 104,400 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.
€ 653
▼ 67% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 152,159
▼ 36% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 170,800
▲ 13% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 718,299 | € 1,232,156 | € 1,384,369 | ▲ 12% |
| Profit after taxes | € -192,132 | € -397,628 | € -150,126 | ▲ € 247,502 |
| Equity | € 2,307,868 | € 1,910,240 | € 1,760,113 | ▼ 8% |
| Total debts | € 275,131 | € 394,920 | € 398,717 | ▲ 1% |
| Cash | € 549,710 | € 684,774 | € 700,918 | ▲ 2% |
| Retained profit | € -192,132 | € -589,760 | € -739,887 | ▼ € 150,126 |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,582,999 | € 2,309,189 | € 2,166,394 | ▼ 6% |
| Employees (FTE) | 15.7 | 14.7 | 13.7 | ▼ 1 |
Key figures of Belgian Welding Institute Industry, fiscal years 2023 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 Belgian Welding Institute Industry?
What happened at Belgian Welding Institute Industry in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 150,126. Source: NBB ↗
- VINCOTTE VZW became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- CHRISTOPHE VAN DE SLYCKE became a director. NBB
- STEVEN GOEDSEELS became a director. NBB
- SERGE CLAESSENS became a director. NBB
- BART VERSTRAETEN became a director. NBB
- SESEMET BV became a director. NBB
In short
From € 192,132 loss in 2023 to € 150,126 loss in 2025.
Paid € 3,023 in corporate taxes since 2023.
On average € 101,000 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
The stake of FINOCAS comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Belgian Welding Institute IndustryBehind Belgian Welding Institute Industry are CHRISTOPHE VAN DE SLYCKE, STEVEN GOEDSEELS, SERGE CLAESSENS, BART VERSTRAETEN, SESEMET BV and VINCOTTE VZW. The shares are held by FINOCAS (50%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
CHRISTOPHE VAN DE SLYCKE
Director
since 2022
STEVEN GOEDSEELS
Director
since 2022
SERGE CLAESSENS
Director
since 2022
BART VERSTRAETEN
Managing director
Also active at: Institut Belge de la Soudure - Belgisch Instituut voor Lastechniek, Vervolmakingscentrum voor lassers, Association belge du Soudage - Belgische Vereniging voor Lastechniek
since 2022
Director · represented by SVEN VANDEPUTTE
Also active at: ONDERZOEKSCENTRUM VOOR AANWENDING VAN STAAL, Metal Processing Centre Gent
since 2022
Director · represented by FREDERIC DEWINT
Also active at: Institut Belge de la Soudure - Belgisch Instituut voor Lastechniek
since 2025
Shareholders
50%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 48
9052 Gent
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 5 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0795.095.439
- VAT number
- BE 0795.095.439
- Registered office
- Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 48, 9052 Gent
- Names & denominations
- Belgian Welding Institute Industry · B.W.I. Industry · Institut Belge de la Soudure Industrie
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 20 December 2022
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