{"title":"Paints, varnishes and mastics market in Spain","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/es/448-paints-varnishes-and-mastics","scope":"Spain","category":{"cpvGroup":"448","label":"Paints, varnishes and mastics"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Spain awarded 70 supply contracts for paints, varnishes and mastics through award notices on TED; the 54 of them that state a value (77.1%) add up to €3.88 million. Spain imported €957 million of goods in the customs headings matched to paints, varnishes and mastics in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 3208, 3214, 3209, 3814 and 3210; all buyers, not only public ones), up 4.7% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 141 companies have won 245 public supply contracts for paints, varnishes and mastics in Spain, in 144 award notices from 79 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Spain.","The five companies that win most often hold 18.4% of all awards.","14.6% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":245,"awardNotices":144,"winningCompanies":141,"publicBuyers":79,"awardsWithValue":227,"awardedValueEur":12300130,"localAwards":245,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.1836734693877551,"singleBidAwards":35,"awardsWithKnownBids":240,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":22,"awardNotices":9,"awardsWithValue":22,"awardedValueEur":841739},{"year":2024,"awards":86,"awardNotices":59,"awardsWithValue":86,"awardedValueEur":2672211},{"year":2025,"awards":70,"awardNotices":34,"awardsWithValue":54,"awardedValueEur":3879436},{"year":2026,"awards":67,"awardNotices":42,"awardsWithValue":65,"awardedValueEur":4906744}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"3208","label":"Paints and varnishes, incl. enamels and lacquers, based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium"},{"hs4":"3214","label":"Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics"},{"hs4":"3209","label":"Paints and varnishes, incl. enamels and lacquers, based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium"},{"hs4":"3814","label":"Organic composite solvents and thinners, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"3210","label":"Paints and varnishes, incl. enamels, lacquers and distempers (excl. those based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers that are dispersed or dissolved in a medium)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":914221598},{"year":2024,"valueEur":932226849},{"year":2025,"valueEur":956825087}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Spain — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €192 billion in 2025, 11.3% 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":191764000000,"percentOfGdp":11.3,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":25,"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, \"Paints, varnishes and mastics market in Spain\", https://cresques.com/markets/es/448-paints-varnishes-and-mastics, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}