Industries

Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment (NACE 25)

Latvia has 1,388 active companies whose main activity is in NACE division 25, “Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment”, and 69.2% of them are VAT payers. In 2025 annual reports the median company turnover in the industry was €139,155, and the largest was Karcher Technology Latvia SIA (€56.7 million); in 2024 the industry’s companies paid €123.8 million in taxes administered by VID (updated 24/09/2026).

Active companies
1,388 No. 28 by number of companies
VAT payers
960 69.2%
Median turnover 2025
€139,155
Taxes paid 2024
€123.8 million 1.1% of the total across industries

Turnover in 2025 annual reports

A quarter of the companies with turnover took in less than the lower quartile, and a quarter more than the upper one.

Turnover in 2025 annual reports
Lower quartile€34,367
Median€139,155
Upper quartile€637,800
Total turnover€1.15 billion
Annual reports filed1,114
Reports with turnover above zero942

Largest companies by turnover

Largest companies by turnover
No.CompanyTurnover, € thousandProfit or loss, € thousandStaff
1Karcher Technology Latvia SIA56,717−88331
2LSEZ "Jensen Metal" SIA48,9485,788478
3SIA "POLIURS"45,6035,671115
4SIA "EAST METAL"29,929−356353
5SIA "Aile Grupa"27,5011,747153
6SIA "EMJ Metāls"26,5341,131141
7SIA "VALPRO"21,8592,042296
8SIA "RK Metāls"21,126782212
9SIA "BRABANTIA LATVIA"20,617855146
10Heidelberg Materials SBC Latvia SIA18,827−2,221162

Taxes paid by year

Taxes administered by VID paid by the industry's companies, by year.

2024: 123.8 € million

Taxes administered by VID paid by the industry's companies, by year
YearCompaniesTaxes paid, € millionStaff
20241,483123.812,894
20231,367118.313,109
20221,315115.813,457
20211,367112.413,465
20201,34586.612,633
20191,33576.212,470

The industry's largest taxpayers in 2024

VAT in this industry

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Tax rates in Latvia

How the figures are compiled

The industry is the main NACE code VID holds for the company in the newest year of taxes paid. Merchants have one: limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, individual merchants, partnerships and branches of foreign merchants. Farms, associations and foundations are not in the industry counts.

The data mixes NACE Rev. 2.1 codes, used in statistics from 2025, with older NACE Rev. 2 codes. Division numbers mostly match between the two, so the industry is read from the first two digits of the code. Division 45 exists only in Rev. 2.

Turnover is net turnover from the company’s annual report for 2025. Where a company filed both its own report and a consolidated group report, its own is used, and reports filed in thousands of euro are converted to euro. The median and quartiles cover companies with turnover above zero.

The report year is the newest year with at least 90% of the usual number of reports filed, since reports are filed months after the year ends. Some late reports may therefore still be missing.

Taxes paid are VID’s published totals of taxes administered by VID, net of refunds, grouped by the NACE code the company had in each year.

Sources

Fakts compiles these figures from the datasets above, published on data.gov.lv under the CC0 licence. They are not official statistics.

Questions

How many companies work in “Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment”?
Latvia has 1,388 active companies whose main NACE code in VID’s data is in division 25. 960 of them are VAT payers.
What is a typical turnover in “Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment”?
In 2025 annual reports the median turnover was €139,155: half of the industry’s companies with turnover took in more, half less.
How is a company’s industry determined?
By the main NACE code the company gave VID, as published in VID’s data on taxes paid. The newest year’s code is used.
Why are farms and associations missing from the industries?
VID publishes a NACE code only for merchants. Farms, associations and foundations have none in this data, so they are not in the industry counts.

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