Puratos

What is established and what is not

No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 8 official records from 7 official sources are on file. 5 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. The manufacturing role above rests on the official records listed below, and only as far as each literally goes: a facility registration or licence is not an observation of current production. Nothing here confirms ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.

Facts on file, each with its evidence type

• Business email on the company's own domain (record type: corporate-mail-on-domain) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows the domain runs its own email rather than a free mailbox. It describes the domain, not who owns it. checked 2026-08-09. Mail server of the company domain
• First recorded on the web archive (record type: web-presence-since) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] The web archive holds a page at this address from 1999. Shows a web archive saw a page at this address on that date. It does not show who ran the site then. checked 2026-08-09. Internet Archive (Wayback)
• No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. checked 2026-08-09. OpenSanctions
• No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. checked 2026-08-09. OpenSanctions
• Website domain registered (record type: domain-registered) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows how long this web address has been registered. That is the age of the domain, not of the company: a domain can change owners. checked 2026-08-09. Domain registry record
• Active legal entity ID (LEI) (record type: lei-active) [official record; status green] A global identifier used in finance; an active one is renewed yearly. checked 2026-09-07. GLEIF global LEI register (golden copy)
• Operating permit for the production site (record type: operating-permit; this record does not by itself establish manufacturing) [official record; status green] Shows an authority issued a permit for an installation at this site for the activity named in the record. A permit is not an inspection report and not an observation that production is running today. checked 2026-08-08. EEA Industrial Emissions Portal (IED), EU-wide permit register
• Site address listed in a government regulator's register (record type: facility-registered) [official record; status green] Shows the regulator records a site of this company at a named address. A registration is not an observation of current production. checked 2026-10-15. European Industrial Emissions Portal (E-PRTR / IED), European Environment Agency
• Authorised Economic Operator in the EU customs register (record type: aeo-certified) [official record; status green] Customs granted trusted-trader status after auditing its procedures. checked 2026-08-30. EU AEO register (European Commission)
• Legally registered and still active (record type: registry-active-global) [official record; status green] Shows the register lists the registration as active on the date we read it. It does not show how busy the business is. checked 2026-10-15. Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE), full open-data file
• registry-activity (record type: registry-activity) [official record; status green] Shows what the state itself says the company does, which you can compare with what it promises you. checked 2026-10-15. Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE), full open-data file
• Registry ID checks out with the state register (record type: registry-id-verified) [official record; status green] Helps confirm the company on this page is the same legal entity as in the register. checked 2026-09-10. GLEIF Global LEI record
• Registered business units on file (record type: registered-units) [official record; status green] 7 active business units on the register, 6 with a manufacturing activity code. The register lists how many sites the company runs. effective since 2026-10-02. Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE), establishment units

Registered business units

7 active units in Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE), establishment units (its open data lists active units only, so closed units are not counted here); 6 active units carry a manufacturing activity code (section C of the activity classification). The activity code is what the register records for each site, not a finding that goods are made there.

• Dellestraat 18, 3560 Lummen: Establishment unit 2.038.926.439, trade name Puratos NV - Lummen, active, manufacturing activity code 10.712 (Fabrication artisanale de pain et de pâtisserie fraîche), manufacturing activity code 10.720 (Fabrication de biscuits, biscottes et pâtisseries de conservation), manufacturing activity code 10.72002 (Fabrication de pâtisserie et de gâteaux de conservation (à l'exclusion des produits surgelés)), trade activity code 46.360 (Commerce de gros de sucre, chocolat et confiserie), opened 1988-06-29. Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE), establishment units
• Industrielaan 16, 9320 Aalst: Establishment unit 2.039.061.645, trade name BELCOLADE, active, manufacturing activity code 10.520 (Fabrication de crèmes glacées et autres glaces alimentaires), manufacturing activity code 10.82001 (Fabrication de cacao, de beurre de cacao, de graisse de cacao et d'huile de cacao), manufacturing activity code 10.890 (Fabrication d'autres produits alimentaires nca), opened 1988-07-01. Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE), establishment units
• Industrialaan 25, 1702 Dilbeek: Establishment unit 2.047.798.474, trade name PURATOS, active, manufacturing activity code 10.610 (Travail des grains), manufacturing activity code 10.712 (Fabrication artisanale de pain et de pâtisserie fraîche), manufacturing activity code 10.72002 (Fabrication de pâtisserie et de gâteaux de conservation (à l'exclusion des produits surgelés)), manufacturing activity code 28.93003 (Fabrication de machines et app pour la boulangerie, pâtisserie, biscuiterie ou la fabrication des pâtes aliment: fours de boulangerie, malaxeurs à pâte, machines à trancher et à diviser la pâte, etc), trade activity code 46.643 (Commerce de gros de matériel électrique, y compris le matériel d'installation), opened 1990-04-09. Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE), establishment units
• Rue Bourie 12, 5300 Andenne: Establishment unit 2.102.780.153, trade name Puratos SA - Andenne, active, manufacturing activity code 10.890 (Fabrication d'autres produits alimentaires nca), opened 2002-04-11. Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE), establishment units
• Prümer Strasse 51, 4780 Sankt Vith: Establishment unit 2.142.946.269, trade name Puratos SA - St Vith, active, manufacturing activity code 10.890 (Fabrication d'autres produits alimentaires nca), opened 2000-01-01. Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE), establishment units
• Industrialaan 32, 1702 Dilbeek: Establishment unit 2.327.699.793, trade name Puratos, active, manufacturing activity code 10.520 (Fabrication de crèmes glacées et autres glaces alimentaires), manufacturing activity code 10.610 (Travail des grains), manufacturing activity code 10.712 (Fabrication artisanale de pain et de pâtisserie fraîche), manufacturing activity code 10.720 (Fabrication de biscuits, biscottes et pâtisseries de conservation), manufacturing activity code 10.72002 (Fabrication de pâtisserie et de gâteaux de conservation (à l'exclusion des produits surgelés)), manufacturing activity code 10.82001 (Fabrication de cacao, de beurre de cacao, de graisse de cacao et d'huile de cacao), manufacturing activity code 10.850 (Fabrication de plats préparés), manufacturing activity code 10.890 (Fabrication d'autres produits alimentaires nca), manufacturing activity code 10.89003 (Fabrication de compléments alimentaires et de produits alimentaires enrichis de vitamines, protéines,), manufacturing activity code 28.93003 (Fabrication de machines et app pour la boulangerie, pâtisserie, biscuiterie ou la fabrication des pâtes aliment: fours de boulangerie, malaxeurs à pâte, machines à trancher et à diviser la pâte, etc), opened 2019-11-21. Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE), establishment units
• Prümer Strasse 42 a, 4780 Sankt Vith: Establishment unit 2.338.016.437, trade name Center for Bread Flavor, active, activity code 56.11101 (Restauration de type traditionnel), opened 2018-04-18. Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE), establishment units

Relationships

10 relationship(s) on file. Each line names the other party, the relationship as its source records it, and the source. A record of a relationship is not a finding about control beyond what it literally says.

Recorded in a source

• Aalst: Holds the site's permit. EEA Industrial Emissions Portal (IED), EU-wide permit register
• PURATOS SITE BELCOLADE: Site named in the record, registry number vl00402009000381. European Industrial Emissions Portal (E-PRTR / IED), European Environment Agency

Candidates, not confirmed

• puratos.com: Website of this business. Source record

Import rules for these goods

• US imports require the foreign facility to be FDA-registered and the importer to run a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). US FDA

Goods family established: Specialty & Gourmet Food (registered activity code). The exact product, operation and trade route needed to determine a product-specific requirement are not established here. Product-specific import rules not established for the catalog categories Pantry & Dry Goods, Beverages: no record or company text names goods of this kind. A catalog category alone is our classification, not proof of what the company makes or sells.

Check independently

• Sanctions and watchlists (OpenSanctions)