C 13–33
Metalworking, machine building, wood and furniture, plastics, chemicals and electrical engineering: for suppliers, maintenance firms, energy consultants and logistics providers who want to write to manufacturers per province or define a market.
Our Belgian database holds 779,149 records (as of 5 November 2026); they are not yet assigned to industries. The quote states the size available for this industry.
Export of the whole industry: €429 (excluding VAT). Selections by province, municipality or your own filters are quoted on request.
Official statistics: 30,601 businesses in Belgium according to Eurostat, Structural Business Statistics (sbs_ovw_act), number of enterprises (reference year 2024, Eurostat update of 30 September 2026, retrieved on 4 November 2026). Section C manufacturing (37,583) excluding divisions 10 food products (6,031), 11 beverages (934) and 12 tobacco products (17). This is the size of the market, not the size of our database.
Choose two or three related NACE-BEL divisions and the provinces of your sales area. With the website as a required field you can check afterwards what each firm makes.
The industry figure counts businesses in divisions 13 to 33 together. It says nothing about the size of a firm or the number of production sites.
Price of the whole industry: €429. A selection by province, sub-industry or required fields is quoted individually; the whole-industry price is not a price promise for the filtered selection.
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Manufacturing is section C of NACE-BEL 2008. This industry takes divisions 13 to 33, i.e. all manufacturing except food, beverages and tobacco. The food industry is under Agriculture and food.
The section also includes division 33, repair and installation of machinery. If you only want firms with their own production, exclude that division and check the largest names: a maintenance firm and a manufacturer buy differently.
| NACE-BEL 2008 | Official title | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture | sawmills, industrial joinery, wooden packaging |
| 20–21 | Manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceutical products | chemicals, fertilisers, paints, pharmaceuticals |
| 22 | Manufacture of rubber and plastic products | plastics processors, packaging, technical parts |
| 25 | Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment | steel structures, sheet metal work, turning and milling |
| 28 | Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. | machines for agriculture, food, packaging and industry |
| 33 | Repair and installation of machinery and equipment | maintenance and assembly |
There is no separate professional register for manufacturing. The official register is the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises; some sector federations also publish member lists.
These 14 columns are included.
For larger industrial groups the registered office is often somewhere other than the plant, sometimes in Brussels or with a holding company. Our records come from places on the map, so usually from the site where work is done. For a letter to the purchasing department that is often the right address; for contracts it may not be.
The main activity decides the classification. A metalworking firm that also builds machines is under 25 or under 28, not both. It is better to describe a broader target group in your request than a single class; our records do not yet carry a NACE-BEL code.
An email without consent may only go to general addresses of legal entities, such as info@ or purchasing@, with an offer intended for legal entities (Royal Decree of 4 April 2003). Use the e_mail_type column for that.
We supply industrial lubricants and are looking for metalworkers and machine builders (NACE-BEL 25 and 28) in Hainaut, Liège and West Flanders with a website, for a letter with a sample pack. Repair firms (33) can be left out. How many records is that?
Use cases
Letters and field sales planning for manufacturers of one division per province.
Production sites within a radius of your own workshop, sorted by municipality.
Write to industrial sites per region with an offer for audits and permits.
Estimate how many manufacturers are based in an industrial zone or province.
Questions
Partly, on request, based on the category and the name in the source. Our records do not yet carry a NACE-BEL code (in the statistics, for example, division 33 for repair and installation); whether a firm manufactures itself can be seen on its website. Before quoting we tell you how reliable this selection is.
Our source starts from places on the map, so usually the site where work is done. A registered office elsewhere is not a separate field in the export. We do not yet link enterprise numbers found on websites to the records; the column is empty for now.
Yes, if you check the numbers against the Do Not Call Me list beforehand and respect objections; the list also applies to businesses. More in the guide telemarketing to businesses.
30,601 businesses in Belgium according to Eurostat, Structural Business Statistics (sbs_ovw_act), number of enterprises (reference year 2024, Eurostat update of 30 September 2026, retrieved on 4 November 2026). Section C manufacturing (37,583) excluding divisions 10 food products (6,031), 11 beverages (934) and 12 tobacco products (17). This is a figure from official statistics, not the size of our dataset.
Format, sources, price and the rules for email and phone marketing in Belgium: questions about all industries.
