{"title":"Fine and various chemical products market in Sweden","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/se/249-fine-and-various-chemical-products","scope":"Sweden","category":{"cpvGroup":"249","label":"Fine and various chemical products"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Sweden awarded 30 supply contracts for fine and various chemical products through award notices on TED; the 2 of them that state a value (6.7%) add up to €2.13 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Sweden imported €843 million of goods in the customs headings matched to fine and various chemical products in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 3824, 3815, 3506, 3811, 3403 and 6 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 1.5% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 82 companies have won 264 public supply contracts for fine and various chemical products in Sweden, in 90 award notices from 67 public buyers.","83% of these awards went to companies registered in Sweden; the most frequent foreign origin is Finland.","The five companies that win most often hold 43.9% of all awards.","35.8% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":264,"awardNotices":90,"winningCompanies":82,"publicBuyers":67,"awardsWithValue":19,"awardedValueEur":22248884,"localAwards":219,"foreignAwards":45,"top5Share":0.4393939393939394,"singleBidAwards":64,"awardsWithKnownBids":179,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":136,"awardNotices":36,"awardsWithValue":9,"awardedValueEur":14436013},{"year":2025,"awards":30,"awardNotices":23,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":2126952},{"year":2026,"awards":98,"awardNotices":31,"awardsWithValue":8,"awardedValueEur":5685919}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"3824","label":"Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores"},{"hs4":"3815","label":"Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations, n.e.s. (excl. rubber accelerators)"},{"hs4":"3506","label":"Prepared glues and other prepared adhesives, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"3811","label":"Anti-knock preparations, oxidation inhibitors, gum inhibitors, viscosity improvers, anti-corrosive preparations and other prepared additives, for mineral oils, incl. gasoline, or for other liquids used for the same purposes as mineral oils"},{"hs4":"3403","label":"Lubricant preparations, incl. cutting-oil preparations, bolt or nut release preparations, anti-rust or anti-corrosion preparations and mould-release preparations based on lubricants"},{"hs4":"3301","label":"Essential oils, whether or not terpeneless, incl. concretes and absolutes"},{"hs4":"3504","label":"Peptones and their derivatives"},{"hs4":"3809","label":"Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs and other products and preparations such as dressings and mordants of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"3707","label":"Chemical preparations for photographic uses (excl. varnishes, glues, adhesives and similar preparations)"},{"hs4":"3802","label":"Activated carbon"},{"hs4":"3820","label":"Anti-freezing preparations and prepared de-icing fluids (excl. prepared additives for mineral oils or other liquids used for the same purposes as mineral oils)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":830587456},{"year":2024,"valueEur":810983735},{"year":2025,"valueEur":842916982}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Sweden — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €106 billion in 2025, 17.6% 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":105680000000,"percentOfGdp":17.6,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":35.7,"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, \"Fine and various chemical products market in Sweden\", https://cresques.com/markets/se/249-fine-and-various-chemical-products, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}