Top 50 Rubber Product Makers: Global markets edge upwards

London - Despite numerous challenges, the world’s 50 largest non-tire rubber product makers registered an almost 1% increase in combined sales for 2025, to $85,100 million – compared to a decline of around 2% in the previous year.

Sales among European-based rubber product manufacturers – surveyed both this year and last – totalled $31,729 million, representing a year-on-year decline of 2.9%. The result continued a negative trend from last year when combined sales fell 2.3%.

Moving in the opposite direction, North American rubber parts makers registered a modest improvement, with combined sales up 1.1% year-on-year to $25,612 million. This compared to a decline of 1.4% last year. 

On a similar like-for-like basis, revenue among Japanese-based rubber-component manufacturers grew 1.5% to $15,239 million, reversing a marked decrease of 4.6% recorded in last year’s survey.

While lagging the other two regions in terms of recovery, European manufacturers maintained a dominant position across the world’s largest rubber product manufacturers, led by Freudenberg Group.

At constant exchange rate (2025 average: €1 = $1.140), estimated non-tire rubber sales at Waldkraiburg, Germany-based Freudenberg declined 1.8% year-on-year in 2025 to $8024.6 million – versus $8,172.9 million in the prior-year.

However, allowing for actual variation in exchange rate (2024 average: €1 = $1.082), estimated sales at the world’s largest rubber product maker increased by 3.4% year-on-year in 2025 from $7,757.8 million in 2024.

Read the full survey report in the July/August edition of European Rubber Journal