Chemicals

NACE division 20. 244 active Irish companies, 35 registered in the last 12 months.

Sector economy

Official statistics for chemicals: business surveys (European Commission) and the CSO. A tag shows when the CSO only publishes the figure for a wider group.

Confidence indicators are balances: % of firms reporting improvement minus % reporting deterioration, seasonally adjusted; industry confidence combines order books, stocks (inverted) and production expectations. Ireland's figures by activity stop in Jan 2023; the Commission still publishes Ireland's sector-wide indicators.

Firms in this activity across the EU expect: employment -12.0, selling prices +14.4 (balances, next 3 months).

Sources: European Commission, Business and Consumer Surveys; CSO BRA31, BRA36, BRA34, EHQ15, EHQ03, EHQ16, QES01, MIM05, RSM08, MSI03, WPM35, SPP10, AIA30, ANA09, BAA14, TEC02, JCQ01, EINO09, BPA36, DEA07, CIRGDP04 (CC BY 4.0).

All measures

Every measure we compute for chemicals, ranked against the other activities (1st = highest value). Hover a card for the definition. Compare in the sector explorer.

Company base

Filing behaviour

Structure

Links

Sector P&L (CSO)

Labour (CSO)

Enterprise demography (CSO)

Trade and investment (CSO)

Momentum (CSO)

Where and when

Newest companies

Companies: CRO open data, by the NACE code each company declares. Sector economy: see sources above.

CRO records an activity code (NACE) for 64.0% of active companies (99.2% of those under 5 years old, 99.5% of those 5 to 10 years old, 12.0% of those over 10 years old), so company counts by sector cover the coded companies, which skew young.