{"title":"Paints, varnishes and mastics market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/448-paints-varnishes-and-mastics","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","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 30 European countries awarded 551 supply contracts for paints, varnishes and mastics through award notices on TED; the 311 of them that state a value (56.4%) add up to €155 million. EU countries together imported €14.5 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to paints, varnishes and mastics in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 3208, 3214, 3209, 3814 and 3210; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 2% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 660 companies have won 1,695 public supply contracts for paints, varnishes and mastics in 30 European countries, in 822 award notices from 508 public buyers.","0.5% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Denmark.","The five companies that win most often hold 12.2% of all awards across Europe.","21.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":1695,"awardNotices":822,"winningCompanies":660,"publicBuyers":508,"awardsWithValue":1048,"awardedValueEur":256367774,"localAwards":1687,"foreignAwards":8,"top5Share":0.12212389380530973,"singleBidAwards":337,"awardsWithKnownBids":1578,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":30,"awardNotices":13,"awardsWithValue":27,"awardedValueEur":1028126},{"year":2024,"awards":462,"awardNotices":238,"awardsWithValue":318,"awardedValueEur":52427970},{"year":2025,"awards":551,"awardNotices":286,"awardsWithValue":311,"awardedValueEur":155128083},{"year":2026,"awards":652,"awardNotices":285,"awardsWithValue":392,"awardedValueEur":47783596}]},"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":14195267516},{"year":2024,"valueEur":14195502531},{"year":2025,"valueEur":14482844362}]},"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, \"Paints, varnishes and mastics market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/448-paints-varnishes-and-mastics, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}