{"title":"Synthetic rubber and fibres market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/197-synthetic-rubber-and-fibres","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"197","label":"Synthetic rubber and fibres"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 43 supply contracts for synthetic rubber and fibres through award notices on TED; the 42 of them that state a value (97.7%) add up to €5.58 million. EU countries together imported €9.73 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to synthetic rubber and fibres in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 4002, 5503, 5502, 5504, 5501 and 2 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 4.2% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 53 companies have won 104 public supply contracts for synthetic rubber and fibres in 30 European countries, in 49 award notices from 29 public buyers.","7.7% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 37.5% of all awards across Europe.","29.7% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":104,"awardNotices":49,"winningCompanies":53,"publicBuyers":29,"awardsWithValue":88,"awardedValueEur":11088886,"localAwards":96,"foreignAwards":8,"top5Share":0.375,"singleBidAwards":30,"awardsWithKnownBids":101,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":32,"awardNotices":15,"awardsWithValue":25,"awardedValueEur":4497522},{"year":2025,"awards":43,"awardNotices":22,"awardsWithValue":42,"awardedValueEur":5578263},{"year":2026,"awards":29,"awardNotices":12,"awardsWithValue":21,"awardedValueEur":1013101}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"4002","label":"Synthetic rubber and factice derived from oils, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip"},{"hs4":"5503","label":"Synthetic staple fibres, not carded, combed or otherwise processed for spinning"},{"hs4":"5502","label":"Artificial filament tow as specified in Note 1 to chapter 55"},{"hs4":"5504","label":"Artificial staple fibres, not carded, combed or otherwise processed for spinning"},{"hs4":"5501","label":"Synthetic filament tow as specified in Note 1 to chapter 55"},{"hs4":"5506","label":"Synthetic staple fibres, carded, combed or otherwise processed for spinning"},{"hs4":"5507","label":"Artificial staple fibres, carded, combed or otherwise processed for spinning"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":10157271671},{"year":2024,"valueEur":10188100781},{"year":2025,"valueEur":9731725099}]},"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, \"Synthetic rubber and fibres market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/197-synthetic-rubber-and-fibres, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}