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43 - SPECIALISED CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES Companies in Netherlands

Approximately 340,108 real businesses classified under 43 - Specialised construction activities in Netherlands, with officer, shareholder and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.

SBI 2008 43
Sector Overview — Netherlands

Approximately 340,108 real businesses classified under 43 - Specialised construction activities operate in Netherlands. Covers companies officially classified under SBI 2008 code 43 (Specialised construction activities), part of Netherlands' SBI 2008 classification of economic activities. This division is one of the sub-sectors making up the broader Construction sector. Ownership, beneficial-ownership disclosure and company-registration rules for businesses under this specific activity code follow the same general framework that applies across Construction in Netherlands.

Beneficial-ownership and registration rules for Construction companies in Netherlands follow the same national framework as every other sector there.

Full Netherlands beneficial ownership overview

Top 43 - Specialised construction activities Companies in Netherlands

Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.

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Data Coverage

Record counts for SIC Code F in Netherlands, as of the last reconciliation.

657,732
Total Companies
292,508
Currently Active
44%

Section F is 8% of the Netherlands register by entity count and its 5th largest sector — see all sectors.

Analysis

What this data actually tells you

Construction in the Netherlands carries a distinctive, cascading financial exposure through the Wet Ketenaansprakelijkheid (WKa, Chain Liability Act). Under the WKa, a client or principal contractor is jointly liable for wage tax, social-insurance premiums and minimum wage owed by any staffing firm, contractor or subcontractor further down the work chain — a rule specifically designed to stop contractors and subcontractors gaming payroll-tax remittance through layered outsourcing, and one that makes every link in the chain liable for the links below it.

To manage that exposure, Dutch construction contractors commonly pay subcontractors into a G-rekening (blocked account), reserved specifically for covering the subcontractor’s payroll-tax and social-insurance liabilities, which limits the paying party’s own chain-liability exposure. For verification, a Dutch construction counterparty’s real financial exposure in this sector depends on its position in the subcontracting chain and whether standard risk-mitigation mechanisms like the G-rekening are actually in use — not just on its own direct contractual relationships.

Netherlands Construction, by the register

Charts render from live counts. Modules are suppressed where coverage is too thin to be meaningful.

Entities by sub-sector

41 Construction of buildings
318,270
42 Civil engineering
47,381
43 Specialised construction activities
340,108

SIC division level, live from official registries.

Active vs. inactive

44% active

Section F entities currently on the register as active, vs. struck off or dormant.

Company size, by disclosed headcount

0
174,513
1-9
466,748
10-49
13,581
50+
2,383

By number of employees on file, Section F, Netherlands. 507 entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.

Who uses Netherlands construction ownership data

The three checks this sector's data is most often run for.

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Wet Ketenaansprakelijkheid (chain liability) check

Under the WKa (Wet Ketenaansprakelijkheid), a client or main contractor in the Netherlands is jointly liable for wage tax, social-insurance premiums and minimum wage owed by any staffing firm, contractor or lower-tier subcontractor in its work chain — a real, cascading financial exposure that follows the whole subcontracting chain.

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G-account (blocked payment account) verification

To limit chain-liability exposure, Dutch construction contractors typically pay subcontractors via a G-rekening (blocked account) reserved specifically for the subcontractor’s payroll-tax and social-insurance obligations — confirming whether this mechanism is actually used is a real, checkable risk-mitigation signal.

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Multi-tier subcontracting exposure

Chain liability under the WKa applies to every link in the chain, not just the direct contractual relationship, so assessing a Dutch construction counterparty’s real exposure means understanding who’s below it in the subcontracting chain, not just who it directly contracted with.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many companies are classified under 43 - Specialised construction activities in Netherlands?

Approximately 340,108 businesses are classified under 43 - Specialised construction activities in Netherlands.

What does SBI 2008 code 43 cover?

43 - Specialised construction activities is the official name for this activity under Netherlands' SBI 2008 classification of economic activities. It is a sub-category within the broader Construction sector.

How is this different from the broader Construction category?

Construction is the top-level sector; SBI 2008 code 43 identifies one specific activity within it, letting you narrow a search to exactly this business type rather than the whole sector.

What ownership information is available for these companies?

The same beneficial-ownership, shareholder and officer disclosure framework applies as for any other company in Netherlands, regardless of its specific activity classification. See the individual company profile for the full ownership picture, or the Construction sector overview for the general national framework.

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