{"title":"Rubber and plastic materials market in Slovakia","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/sk/195-rubber-and-plastic-materials","scope":"Slovakia","category":{"cpvGroup":"195","label":"Rubber and plastic materials"},"updated":"2026-11-10","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Slovakia awarded 57 supply contracts for rubber and plastic materials through award notices on TED; the 56 of them that state a value (98.2%) add up to €321,174. Slovakia imported €733 million of goods in the customs headings matched to rubber and plastic materials in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 3920, 3921, 3916, 4005, 4008 and 2 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 1.8% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 25 companies have won 83 public supply contracts for rubber and plastic materials in Slovakia, in 29 award notices from 8 public buyers.","92.8% of these awards went to companies registered in Slovakia; the most frequent foreign origin is Czechia.","The five companies that win most often hold 60.2% of all awards.","39.8% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":83,"awardNotices":29,"winningCompanies":25,"publicBuyers":8,"awardsWithValue":78,"awardedValueEur":6310178,"localAwards":77,"foreignAwards":6,"top5Share":0.6024096385542169,"singleBidAwards":33,"awardsWithKnownBids":83,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":9,"awardNotices":6,"awardsWithValue":8,"awardedValueEur":3015369},{"year":2025,"awards":57,"awardNotices":17,"awardsWithValue":56,"awardedValueEur":321174},{"year":2026,"awards":17,"awardNotices":6,"awardsWithValue":14,"awardedValueEur":2973636}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"3920","label":"Plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of non-cellular plastics, not reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materials, without backing, unworked or merely surface-worked or merely cut into squares or rectangles (excl. self-adhesive products, and floor, wall and ceiling coverings of heading 3918)"},{"hs4":"3921","label":"Plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics, reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materials, or of cellular plastic, unworked or merely surface-worked or merely cut into squares or rectangles (excl. self-adhesive products, floor, wall and ceiling coverings of heading 3918)"},{"hs4":"3916","label":"Monofilament of which any cross-sectional dimension > 1 mm, rods, sticks and profile shapes, of plastics, whether or not surface-worked but not further worked"},{"hs4":"4005","label":"Compounded rubber, unvulcanised, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip (excl. mixtures of natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and similar natural gums containing synthetic rubber or factice derived from oils)"},{"hs4":"4008","label":"Plates, sheets, strip, rods and profile shapes, of vulcanised rubber (excl. hard rubber)"},{"hs4":"4006","label":"Rods, bars, tubes, profiles and other forms of unvulcanised rubber, incl. mixed rubber, and articles of unvulcanised rubber, incl. mixed rubber (excl. plates, sheets and strip which, apart from basic surface-working, have not been cut, or have merely been cut into square or rectangular shapes)"},{"hs4":"4003","label":"Reclaimed rubber in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":719694995},{"year":2024,"valueEur":698778266},{"year":2025,"valueEur":732806156}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Slovakia — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €19.3 billion in 2025, 13.9% 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":19309000000,"percentOfGdp":13.9,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":29.4,"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, \"Rubber and plastic materials market in Slovakia\", https://cresques.com/markets/sk/195-rubber-and-plastic-materials, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 10 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}