Commune de Frameries

What Commune de Frameries does

Commune de Frameries is a Belgian municipality (commune) located in the Hainaut province of the Walloon Region, serving residents of the Borinage region from its administrative seat at Rue Archimède 1, 7080 Frameries. As a public governmental entity operating under Belgian and Walloon regional law, it delivers a broad portfolio of mandated municipal services including civil-status registration, population management, public safety via proximity policing, social welfare through its wholly owned CPAS (Centre Public d'Action Sociale), urban planning and permits, environmental initiatives via ECOTEAM, waste collection via the Hygea intercommunale, sports and cultural programming (Centre culturel, Bibliothèque communale), employment assistance (Maison de l'Emploi, A.L.E.), and economic development support through its A.D.L. service. Leadership comprises Mayor (Bourgmestre) Emmanuel Di Sabato and General Director (Directrice générale) Valérie Ferreira Rodrigues, with the Collègue communal and Conseil communal providing democratic oversight.

The commune's primary digital product is its institutional website at frameries.be, built and maintained by technology partner IMIO on the Plone CMS under a GNU-compatible free software license, with OpenID Connect authentication. The website is supplemented by two service modules: an e-guichet online administrative portal (frameries.e-guichet.be) and an online appointment-booking system powered by IzyFil. Distribution channels include the physical Guichet unique administrative center, the e-guichet digital portal, sectoral service points (CPAS, sports, culture, police), and the Journal de Frameries communal newsletter, alongside Facebook and Instagram social-media accounts. The entity also operates two wholly owned operating entities — CPAS de Frameries for social welfare and the Régie Communale Autonome de Frameries for autonomous service management — and participates in multiple intercommunales for shared regional infrastructure.

Commune de Frameries is funded through local taxes, government subsidies from the Walloon Region and federal transfers, and limited service fees as governed by Belgian municipal law; it does not operate a commercial revenue model and does not publicly disclose revenue. The entity holds GDPR/RGPD compliance and has declared commitment to WCAG accessibility standards (levels A, AA, AAA) for its institutional website. Customer concentration is structurally low because the customer base is the entire resident population within its territorial jurisdiction, and there is no churn exposure in the commercial sense. No AI/ML capabilities, funding rounds, or external investors are present in the data.

Name

Commune de Frameries

Legal name

Commune de Frameries

Website

https://frameries.be

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Commune de Frameries is a Belgian municipality in Hainaut province, Wallonia, delivering mandated public services including civil registration, social welfare, waste management, policing, education, and cultural programming to residents of the Borinage region from its administrative seat in Frameries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local Government Administration

NAICS

Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined (921140), Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (9251), Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development (92512)

akta.pro primary industry

Land Administration & Cadastral Services (Public Land Records, Parcel Management) (BPAIANAH)

Keywords

• Municipal administration services
• Civil status registration
• Public sector administration
• Social welfare services
• Local government services

Headquarters

HQ city

Frameries

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Commune de Frameries is a Belgian public municipality that delivers statutory local government services to its residents and businesses, including civil status registration (birth, marriage, death certificates), population registration, urban planning and permits, public safety through proximity policing, social welfare through CPAS, waste management via Hygea, environmental initiatives through ECOTEAM, sports and cultural programming, library services, employment assistance, and local economic development. These services are delivered through a physical administration center, sectoral service departments, and digital channels including the E-guichet online portal and online appointment scheduling.

Product overview

Commune de Frameries operates a unified institutional website (frameries.be) as its primary digital product, supplemented by integrated online service modules. The core offering consists of the municipal website providing access to administrative information, community news, events, and directory services. Attached modules include the E-guichet (online administrative portal) for digital procedures and the online appointment scheduling system powered by IzyFil. The site is developed and maintained in collaboration with iMio under an open-source software license, built on the Plone CMS framework.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Guichet en ligne (E-guichet)

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and standard.

• IMIOcoreTechnology or IntegrationIMIO is the technology partner that built and maintains the Commune de Frameries official website. The site is developed under a free software license (compatible with GNU Free Software Foundation standards), indicating a commitment to open-source principles in municipal digital infrastructure.
• HygeacoreOthers
• ORESstandardOthers
• Intercommunales (General)coreOthers
• ECOTEAMcoreOthers

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Commune de Quaregnon: Borinage neighbor with comparable size and economic profile, offering the same statutory municipal services and participating in the same regional cooperation structures.
• Commune de Dour: Adjacent Hainaut commune in the Borinage region with comparable demographic and economic characteristics, delivering the same suite of civil, social, and cultural services to a similar-sized population.
• Commune de Mons: Larger municipality in the same Hainaut province of Wallonia, operating under identical Belgian municipal law and providing the same civil status, urban planning, and social services functions. Directly comparable governance model with similar intercommunale participation.
• Commune de Colfontaine: Immediate neighboring commune in the Borinage region of Hainaut, sharing the same post-industrial economic profile and intercommunale memberships. Closest like-for-like peer in terms of size, demographics, and service mix.
• Commune de Boussu: Neighboring Borinage commune of similar population size operating the same statutory municipal functions and participating in overlapping intercommunales for waste, energy, and regional services.
• Commune de Saint-Ghislain: Neighboring Hainaut municipality operating under identical Belgian communal law, with shared intercommunale memberships and similar service delivery scope to Frameries.

Broad incumbents

• Ville de Charleroi: Large Walloon city in Hainaut that delivers the full scope of municipal services (civil registry, urban planning, CPAS, culture, sports) under the same legal framework as Frameries, but at materially greater scale and budget.
• Service Public de Wallonie (SPW): Regional government authority that oversees and funds Walloon municipalities including Frameries. Operates in the same public administration space at a higher jurisdictional level and shapes the regulatory and funding framework Frameries operates within.
• Ville de Liège: Major Walloon city providing a comparable portfolio of municipal services (population, urban planning, CPAS, culture) at significantly larger scale, useful as an upper-bound benchmark for service breadth and digital modernization.

Others

• IMIO: Inter-municipal IT cooperative that built and maintains Frameries' digital infrastructure (website, e-guichet, OIDC authentication). Functions as a shared GovTech platform for dozens of Walloon communes, making it the most direct technology and operational counterpart.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/7080Frameries
• Instagraminstagram.com/7080frameries
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/commune-de-frameries

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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