{"title":"Dyes and pigments market in Estonia","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ee/242-dyes-and-pigments","scope":"Estonia","category":{"cpvGroup":"242","label":"Dyes and pigments"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Estonia awarded 24 supply contracts for dyes and pigments through award notices on TED; the 2 of them that state a value (8.3%) add up to €474,750, a floor rather than the full contract value. Estonia imported €17 million of goods in the customs headings matched to dyes and pigments in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 3206, 3204, 3203, 2817, 2821 and 5 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 36.4% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 25 companies have won 33 public supply contracts for dyes and pigments in Estonia, in 16 award notices from 3 public buyers.","87.9% of these awards went to companies registered in Estonia; the most frequent foreign origin is Poland.","The five companies that win most often hold 39.4% of all awards.","0% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":33,"awardNotices":16,"winningCompanies":25,"publicBuyers":3,"awardsWithValue":4,"awardedValueEur":539000,"localAwards":29,"foreignAwards":4,"top5Share":0.3939393939393939,"singleBidAwards":0,"awardsWithKnownBids":22,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":8,"awardNotices":8,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":64250},{"year":2025,"awards":24,"awardNotices":7,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":474750},{"year":2026,"awards":1,"awardNotices":1,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"3206","label":"Inorganic or mineral colouring matter, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"3204","label":"Synthetic organic colouring matter, whether or not chemically defined"},{"hs4":"3203","label":"Colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin, incl. dye extracts (excl. animal black), whether or not chemically defined"},{"hs4":"2817","label":"Zinc oxide"},{"hs4":"2821","label":"Iron oxides and hydroxides"},{"hs4":"2823","label":"Titanium oxides"},{"hs4":"2816","label":"Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium"},{"hs4":"3205","label":"Colour lakes (other than Chinese or Japanese lacquer and paints)"},{"hs4":"3202","label":"Synthetic organic tanning substances"},{"hs4":"3201","label":"Tanning extracts of vegetable origin"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":12462067},{"year":2024,"valueEur":14826678},{"year":2025,"valueEur":16993404}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Estonia — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €6.43 billion in 2025, 15.4% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":6429000000,"percentOfGdp":15.4,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":33.7,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Dyes and pigments market in Estonia\", https://cresques.com/markets/ee/242-dyes-and-pigments, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}