Archive:Manufacture of rubber and plastic products statistics - NACE Rev. 2
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This article presents an overview of statistics for the rubber and plastic products manufacturing sector in the European Union (EU), as covered by NACE Rev. 2 Division 22.
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Main statistical findings
Structural profile
There were 65.8 thousand enterprises classified to rubber and plastic products manufacturing (Division 22) in the EU-27 in 2010. Together they employed 1.6 million persons, equivalent to 1.2 % of the total number of persons employed in the non-financial business economy (Sections B to J and L to N and Division 95) and 5.4 % of the manufacturing (Section C) workforce. They generated EUR 77.4 billion of value added which was 1.3 % of the non-financial business economy total and 4.9 % of the manufacturing total.
The apparent labour productivity of the EU-27’s rubber and plastic products manufacturing sector in 2010 was EUR 47.9 thousand per person employed, midway between the non-financial business economy average (EUR 44.8 thousand per person employed) and the manufacturing average (EUR 52.8 thousand per person employed). In a similar vein, average personnel costs within the EU-27’s rubber and plastic products manufacturing sector — EUR 32.7 thousand per employee — were higher than the non-financial business economy average (EUR 30.9 thousand) and lower than the manufacturing average (EUR 35.8 thousand). The combination of moderate average personnel costs and apparent labour productivity resulted in a wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio for the EU-27’s rubber and plastic products manufacturing sector of 146.6 % which was halfway between the non-financial business economy (144.8 %) and manufacturing (148.0 %) averages.
The gross operating surplus represented 9.7 % of turnover in the EU-27’s rubber and plastic products manufacturing sector in 2010. This gross operating rate was slightly lower than the non-financial business economy average of 10.1 % but higher than the manufacturing average of 9.0 %.
Sectoral analysis
The plastic products manufacturing subsector (Group 22.2) was approximately four times the size of the rubber products manufacturing subsector (Group 22.1) in the EU-27 in terms of its value added — see Figure 1. Both subsectors recorded productivity levels below the manufacturing average, while being above the non-financial business economy average (2009 data for rubber products manufacturing). Average personnel costs for the EU-27’s rubber products manufacturing subsector were EUR 37.0 thousand per employee in 2010, which was slightly above the manufacturing average (EUR 35.8 thousand per employee). By contrast, EU-27 average personnel costs for the plastics products manufacturing subsector were EUR 31.5 thousand, just above the non-financial business economy average (EUR 30.9 thousand per employee).
The gross operating rate of the EU-27’s plastic products manufacturing subsector was, at 9.8 %, marginally lower than for the rubber products manufacturing subsector (10.0 %) in 2010. Both of these rates were slightly above the manufacturing average (9.0 %) but just below the non-financial business economy average (10.1 %).
Country analysis
The largest Member State (in value added terms) in the EU-27’s rubber and plastic products manufacturing sector in 2010 was Germany, with a 28.3 % share of the EU-27 total; furthermore, Germany had the highest value added in both subsectors. Germany’s share in EU-27 value added for rubber and plastic products manufacturing was more than double the next highest share, 14.0 % for France; Italy (12.9 %) and the United Kingdom (10.4 %) were the only other Member States with a share above 10.0 %. In terms of the workforce, the three largest Member States in the rubber and plastic products manufacturing sector were the same: namely, Germany, France and Italy, while the rubber and plastic products manufacturing workforce in Poland was larger than that in the United Kingdom.
The Czech Republic’s 3.0 % share of the EU-27 value added in the rubber and plastic products manufacturing sector was this Member State’s third highest such share in 2010. Unsurprisingly therefore, the Czech Republic was by far the most specialised Member State in the rubber and plastic products manufacturing sector, as this sector contributed 2.9 % of the value added in the Czech non-financial business economy in 2010. The next most specialised Member States, in value added terms, were Slovenia (2.5 % of non-financial business economy value added), Poland (2.2 %), Hungary (2.1 %) and Slovakia (2.0 %). The least specialised Member State, in value added terms, was Latvia where the rubber and plastic products manufacturing sector contributed 0.4 % to non-financial business economy value added; in Norway the equivalent share was even lower, at 0.2 %.
As well as being the most specialised EU Member State in this sector, the Czech Republic was one of six Member States with a wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio in 2010 above 200 %; the highest ratio was recorded in Romania (252.8 %).
Size class analysis
Large enterprises (employing 250 or more persons) and medium-sized enterprises (employing 50 to 249 persons) together employed 70.6 % of the EU-27’s rubber and plastic products manufacturing workforce and provided 76.9 % of total value added. The 34.0 % share of total value added accounted for by medium-sized enterprises within the EU-27’s rubber and plastic products manufacturing sector was the second highest share in 2010 for this size class among all manufacturing NACE divisions, smaller only than the share recorded for textiles manufacturing.
In 12 EU Member States (among 24 with reasonably complete data) medium-sized enterprises generated a larger share of value added in the rubber and plastic products manufacturing sector than any of the three other size classes shown in Table 6b. The relative importance of medium-sized enterprises rose as high as 54.8 % in Estonia and 56.9 % in Ireland, while their contribution to total value added exceeded 40 % in five other Member States; this was also the case in Switzerland. In 11 of the remaining Member States, large enterprises contributed the greatest share of sectoral value added, exceeding one half in Germany, Hungary, Denmark and the Czech Republic. Cyprus was the only Member State where the value added share of small enterprises (employing 10 to 49 persons) was the greatest, as 38.5 % of Cypriot value added in the rubber and plastic products manufacturing sector stemmed from small enterprises.
Data sources and availability
The analysis presented in this article is based on the main dataset for structural business statistics (SBS) and size class data, all of which are published annually.
The main series provides information for each EU Member State as well as a number of non-member countries at a detailed level according to the activity classification NACE. Data are available for a wide range of variables.
In structural business statistics, size classes are generally defined by the number of persons employed. A limited set of the standard structural business statistics variables (for example, the number of enterprises, turnover, persons employed and value added) are analysed by size class, mostly down to the three-digit (group) level of NACE. The main size classes used in this article for presenting the results are:
- small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): with 1 to 249 persons employed, further divided into;
- micro enterprises: with less than 10 persons employed;
- small enterprises: with 10 to 49 persons employed;
- medium-sized enterprises: with 50 to 249 persons employed;
- large enterprises: with 250 or more persons employed.
Context
This article presents an overview of statistics for the rubber and plastic products manufacturing sector in the EU, as covered by NACE Rev. 2 Division 22. This division is characterised by the raw materials used in the manufacturing process, namely rubber and plastics, but not all products made of these materials are classified here.
As well as tyres, rubber manufacturing involves the production of rubber plates, sheets, strip, rods, profile shapes, tubes, pipes, hoses, belts, hygienic articles, parts of footwear, thread, rings, fittings, seals, inflatable mattresses, balloons, brushes, bathing caps, wet suits, diving suits and sex articles as well as rubberised yarn and fabrics.
Plastic manufacturing comprises processing new or spent (in other words, recycled) plastic resins into intermediate or final products, using such processes as: compression moulding; extrusion moulding; injection moulding; blow moulding; and casting.
This NACE division is composed of two groups:
- the rubber products manufacturing subsector (Group 22.1);
- the plastic products manufacturing subsector (Group 22.2).
Excluded are the manufacture of rubber or plastic footwear (which form part of the manufacture of leather and related products, Division 15), inflatable rubber rafts and boats (which are part of the manufacture of other transport equipment, Division 30) and rubber or plastic sports requisites, games and toys (which form part of other manufacturing, Division 32).
See also
- Manufacturing
- Other analyses of the business economy by NACE Rev. 2 sector
- Structural business statistics introduced
Further Eurostat information
Publications
- European business - facts and figures (online publication)
- Key figures on European Business – with a special feature section on SMEs – 2011 edition
Main tables
Database
- SBS - industry and construction (sbs_ind_co)
- Annual detailed enterprise statistics - industry and construction (sbs_na_ind)
- Annual detailed enterprise statistics for industry (NACE Rev. 2 B-E) (sbs_na_ind_r2)
- SMEs - Annual enterprise statistics by size class - industry and construction (sbs_sc_ind)
- Industry by employment size class (NACE Rev. 2 B-E) (sbs_sc_ind_r2)
- Annual detailed enterprise statistics - industry and construction (sbs_na_ind)
- SBS - regional data - all activities (sbs_r)
- SBS data by NUTS 2 regions and NACE Rev. 2 (from 2008 onwards) (sbs_r_nuts06_r2)
Dedicated section
Source data for tables and figures (MS Excel)
Other information
- Decision 1578/2007/EC of 11 December 2007 on the Community Statistical Programme 2008 to 2012
- Regulation 295/2008 of 11 March 2008 concerning structural business statistics