Association of Chemical, Rubber and Non-metal Industries

The total gross value added (GVA) generated by the chemical, rubber, and non-metal industries was around 1.8 billion EUR in 2024, which is the 2.5% of the total GVA of the country and 2.2% of Serbia’s GDP. Observed by activities, nearly 805.1 million EUR was created by the manufacture of rubber and plastic products (44.8%) and 416.4 million EUR by manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products (23.2%). The other two activities have a smaller contribution. From 2020 to 2024, GVA share of chemical, rubber and non-metal industries in total GVA and GDP of the Republic of Serbia showed slightly declining trend.

Export of chemical, rubber and non-metal products in 2025 amounted to 5.0 billion EUR which is the 15.1% of total export and export of these products are higher than previous year (by 18.0%). These industries are hiring 66.5 thousand of workers (2.9% of total employment) while the most are employed in manufacture of rubber and plastic products (34.3 thousand). In chemical, rubber and non-metal industries in 2025 was operating 2.7 thousand of active companies and 5.1 thousand of entrepreneurs which is in total 7.9 thousand.