VM Steel
Company-provided description, not an official-source fact. Certifications, capacities, years and market positions stated in it are the company's own claims until a record below confirms them.
Carbon and stainless steel distributor
VM Steel is a Belgian distributor and exporter of carbon and specialized stainless steel. It supplies industrial buyers across Europe and beyond.
- Type
- distributor (our classification of the record, not a statement by the company)
- Role
- Distributor (official record)
- Location
- Wavre, Belgium
- Founded
- Not established: our records disagree. 2002 in the founding-year field of our catalogue record; 1875 in the company's own website.
- Website
- https://vmsteel.com
- Categories
- Metals, Steel & Mining
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 5 official records from 4 official sources are on file. 4 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 trading role above rests on the official records listed below, and only as far as each literally goes. Nothing here confirms manufacturing or ownership beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- 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 2026-08-10. Domain registry record
- 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 2026-08-10. OpenSanctions
- 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 2026-08-10. Mail server of the company domain
- 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 2026-08-10. OpenSanctions
- 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 2026-08-23. GLEIF global LEI register (golden copy)
- 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
- 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
- Registered for trade, not manufacturing (record type: registered-trade-only) [official record; status amber] Indicates the register lists trade, not production. checked 2026-10-15. Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE), full open-data file
- Registered business units on file (record type: registered-units) [official record; status green] 2 registered business units. 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
2 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); 0 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.
- Avenue Pasteur 6, 1300 Wavre: Establishment unit 2.101.861.524, trade name VM Steel, active, trade activity code 46.820 (Commerce de gros de minerais métalliques et de métaux), opened 2002-07-18. Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE), establishment units
- Sint Lenaartseweg 44, 2320 Hoogstraten: Establishment unit 2.325.873.918, trade name VM Steel, active, trade activity code 46.820 (Commerce de gros de minerais métalliques et de métaux), opened 2021-01-12. Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO/BCE), establishment units
Relationships
3 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.
Candidates, not confirmed
- vmsteel.com: Website of this business. Source record
Check independently
Before a first order, ask whose products they sell and on what basis: a distribution agreement or the manufacturer's authorisation.