Source: Products Register, KemI.
Any company importing, manufacturing or changing names of chemical products shall provide a report to the Agency's Products Register, stating certain information on the use and contents of the products.
About 2,200 companies have registered manufacture or import of chemical products in Sweden. 50 per cent of these have each registered five products or less. One fifth of all companies have only one product registered. Only 21 companies are importers or manufacturers of more than 500 products each.
The number of companies that register few products seem to have decreased. There also seems to be an increase in the number of companies that registered more than five products. One reason for this could be that companies importing a few products for their own use have a commerial agent to fulfil the obligation to report for their behalf. Another explanation could be that there are fewer new companies manufacturing or importing chemicals in a small scale with few products.
The annual turn-over of companies in the register is about ten per cent.
Number of chemical products per reporting company, 2007| Number of products per company | Number of companies | Total number of products |
|---|
| 1 | 428 | 428 |
| 2 - 5 | 640 | 2 019 |
| 6 - 50 | 826 | 14 575 |
| 51 - 500 | 274 | 38 775 |
| >500 | 21 | 20 592 |
| Total | 2 189 | 76 389 |
Source: Products Register, KemI.
Please note that the intervals for number of products are unequal.
A small share of the companies declare a large share of the products. 295 companies, 13 per cent of all reporting companies, have each more than 50 products registered. That equals 77 per cent of all products.
Many more companies, about 50 per cent, contribute with only a few products each. Together they have registered three per cent of all products.
