Warning lights
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 1 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 37 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 19.9 to 17.3.
Financials
Financial year 2025
METAALBEWERKING EN COATING from Sint-Niklaas, company number BE0807650506, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -675,896 after tax. For that financial year METAALBEWERKING EN COATING recorded a gross margin of € 595,615 and equity of € -33,435. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -357,662 to € -675,896. 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 8, 2026.
€ -33,435
▼ € 675,896 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -675,896
▼ 89 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 15,067
▲ € 13,194 vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -183,435.
People and assets in 2025
17.3
▼ 1.4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 1.1 million
▼ 7% vs 2024
€ 61,700 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.
€ 654,391
▼ 12% vs 2024
Of which on lease € 632,854.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1.7 million
▲ 90% vs 2024
€ 104,260 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 6 years.
€ 360,437
▲ 54% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 86,631
▼ 53% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 1,397,998 | € 1,927,115 | € 999,899 | € 595,615 | ▼ 40% |
| Profit after taxes | € 218,630 | € 426,827 | € -357,662 | € -675,896 | ▼ € 318,234 |
| Equity | € 598,248 | € 1,000,122 | € 642,461 | € -33,435 | ▼ € 675,896 |
| Total debts | € 505,016 | € 970,351 | € 1,345,297 | € 2,204,458 | ▲ 64% |
| Cash | € 165,690 | € 32,535 | € 1,873 | € 15,067 | ▲ € 13,194 |
| Retained profit | € 448,248 | € 850,122 | € 492,461 | € -183,435 | ▼ € 675,896 |
| Bank debt | € 102,946 | € 463,038 | € 910,518 | € 1,730,200 | ▲ 90% |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,103,264 | € 1,970,473 | € 1,987,758 | € 2,176,023 | ▲ 9% |
| Employees (FTE) | 16.4 | 19.9 | 18.7 | 17.3 | ▼ 1.4 |
Key figures of METAALBEWERKING EN COATING, 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 METAALBEWERKING EN COATING?
What happened at METAALBEWERKING EN COATING in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- Opco nv stepped down as director. NBB
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 675,896. Source: NBB ↗
- Opco nv became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Sint-Niklaas. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 218,630 profit in 2022 to € 675,896 loss in 2025.
Paid € 163,200 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 426,827 profit.
On average € 34,400 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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Management
The stake of OPCO comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
METAALBEWERKING EN COATINGThe shares are held by OPCO (100%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Emmy VERSTRAETEN
Also active at: ELAUT, Immobiliën Van den Bril, RESIDENTIE WILDERODE
since 2023 · until 2029
Shareholders
100%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Europark-Oost 6
9100 Sint-Niklaas
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Outlook.com (free)
Hosting
HOASTED, NL
DNS
Cloudflare DNS
Website info
Features
Security
Details
- Company number
- 0807.650.506
- VAT number
- BE 0807.650.506
- Registered office
- Europark-Oost 6, 9100 Sint-Niklaas
- Names & denominations
- METAALBEWERKING EN COATING · METACO
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 7 November 2008
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 31 Dec 2025
- Contact
- metaco.be
- Activities · NACE
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