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Turnover: €565 billion
Direct jobs: 1,171,000
Companies: 30,000
Capital spending: €22.8 billion
R&D investment: €10.0 billion
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Turnover: €16.18 billion
Direct jobs: 45,600
Companies: 240
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Turnover: €65 billion
Direct jobs: 92,500
Companies: > 720
Capital spending: €2.1 billion
R&D investment: €4.5 billion
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Turnover: €1.578 billion
Direct jobs: 13,350
Companies: 642
Capital spending: €678 million
R&D investment: €127 million
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Turnover: €809 million
Direct jobs: 5,987
Companies: 353
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Turnover: €19.77 billion
Direct jobs: 129,500
Companies: 1851
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Turnover: €6.4 billion
Direct jobs: 10,657
Companies: 277
Capital spending: €3.7 billion
R&D investment: €1,7 billion
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Turnover: €600 million
Direct jobs: 2,536
Companies: 97
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Turnover: €21.9 billion
Direct jobs: 33,400
Companies: 400
Capital spending: €805 million
R&D investment: €448 million
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Turnover: €75 billion
Direct jobs: 166,650
Companies: 3,300
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Turnover: €203.0 billion
Direct jobs: 462,553
Companies: 2,050
Capital spending: €7.2 billion
R&D investment: €11.8 billion
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Turnover: €2.3 billion
Direct jobs: 13,500
Companies: 1,000
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Turnover: €5.4 billion
Direct jobs: 15,039
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Direct jobs: > 30,000
Capital spending: €10 billion
R&D investment: €1.8 billion
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Turnover: €56 billion
Direct jobs: 109,600
Companies: 2,800
Capital spending: €1.7 billion
R&D investment: €559 million
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Turnover: €699 million
Direct jobs: 8,901
Companies: 500
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Turnover: €2.2 billion
Direct jobs: 6,300
Companies: 104
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Turnover: €55 billion
Direct jobs: 57,000
Companies: 470
R&D investment: €750 million
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Turnover: €16.1 billion
Direct jobs: 13,000
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Turnover: €62,15 billion
Direct jobs: 315,000
Companies: > 11,000
R&D investment: €0.7 billion
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Turnover: €4.879 billion
Direct jobs: 14,604
Companies: 867
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Turnover: €2.3 billion
Direct jobs: 22,500
Companies: 979
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Direct jobs: > 650,000
Companies: 3,500
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Turnover: €10,347 million
Direct jobs: 46,143
Companies: 307 (with the number of employees over 20)
R&D investment: €641 million
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Turnover: €6.1 billion
Direct jobs: 31,000
Companies: 800
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Turnover: €65.7 billion
Direct jobs: 196,800
Companies: 3,300
Capital spending: €2.1 billion
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Turnover: €32 (in 2017) billion
Direct jobs: 51,300 (in 2017)
Companies: 2,521 (in 2017)
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Direct jobs: 70,000
Companies: 250
R&D investment: CHF 7.2 billion
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Turnover: €44 billion
Direct jobs: 120,776
Companies: 5,793
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Turnover: €62.8 billion
Direct jobs: 153,000
Companies: 3,608
Capital spending: €5.2 billion
R&D investment: €5.9 billion
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The chemical industry’s pioneering technologies and efficiency win customers around the world, provide 1,140,000 jobs, and help generate wealth for us all.
The European chemical industry is a foundation of the continent’s economy. Its research centers, factories and logistics chains are woven across the continent, providing the ideas and clever materials that enable manufacturers to turn out products that keep us clean, safe and comfortable in our homes and as we go about our daily lives.
Understanding this industry and its whys and wherefores isn’t easy. The forces that shape its locations, challenges and solutions are as complex as many of its formulas. To help those keen to acquire an accurate picture of the industry, what it does, where, and why, we have produced the ‘Landscape of the European Chemical Industry’. Providing a regional overview and country-by-country snapshots, we hope it will enable you to better understand the industry today, the challenges it faces, and our ambitions for the future.
Please note that the scope of the chemical industry differs from one country to the other. In some countries, the scope of the chemical industry is strictly limited to chemicals, under NACE 20 of the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Union. In other countries, the scope of the chemical industry also covers the pharmaceutical sector and the rubber & plastics sectors, i.e NACE 21 and NACE 22 respectively.