{"title":"Metal ores and alloys market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/146-metal-ores-and-alloys","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"146","label":"Metal ores and alloys"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 241 supply contracts for metal ores and alloys through award notices on TED; the 101 of them that state a value (41.9%) add up to €85.3 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. EU countries together imported €49.5 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to metal ores and alloys in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 7204, 2603, 2601, 7202, 2608 and 7 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 6.5% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 273 companies have won 509 public supply contracts for metal ores and alloys in 30 European countries, in 233 award notices from 137 public buyers.","2.9% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Estonia.","The five companies that win most often hold 13.6% of all awards across Europe.","21.8% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":509,"awardNotices":233,"winningCompanies":273,"publicBuyers":137,"awardsWithValue":282,"awardedValueEur":169220635,"localAwards":494,"foreignAwards":15,"top5Share":0.13555992141453832,"singleBidAwards":103,"awardsWithKnownBids":473,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":9,"awardNotices":4,"awardsWithValue":8,"awardedValueEur":9641707},{"year":2024,"awards":117,"awardNotices":69,"awardsWithValue":69,"awardedValueEur":51462335},{"year":2025,"awards":241,"awardNotices":89,"awardsWithValue":101,"awardedValueEur":85347963},{"year":2026,"awards":142,"awardNotices":71,"awardsWithValue":104,"awardedValueEur":22768630}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"7204","label":"Ferrous waste and scrap"},{"hs4":"2603","label":"Copper ores and concentrates"},{"hs4":"2601","label":"Iron ores and concentrates, incl. roasted iron pyrites"},{"hs4":"7202","label":"Ferro-alloys"},{"hs4":"2608","label":"Zinc ores and concentrates"},{"hs4":"2616","label":"Precious-metal ores and concentrates"},{"hs4":"2606","label":"Aluminium ores and concentrates"},{"hs4":"2618","label":"Granulated slag \"slag sand\" from the manufacture of iron or steel"},{"hs4":"2604","label":"Nickel ores and concentrates"},{"hs4":"2602","label":"Manganese ores and concentrates, incl. ferruginous manganese ores and concentrates, with a manganese content of >= 20%, calculated on the dry weight"},{"hs4":"2610","label":"Chromium ores and concentrates"},{"hs4":"2619","label":"Slag, dross, scalings and other waste from the manufacture of iron or steel (excl. granulated slag)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":52929565084},{"year":2024,"valueEur":50686125709},{"year":2025,"valueEur":49474767461}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion in 2025, 15.5% 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":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"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, \"Metal ores and alloys market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/146-metal-ores-and-alloys, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}