Finland’s diverse chemical industry covers the basic chemical industry, the various fields of chemical product industries (incl. pharmaceutical industry) as well as the oil refining and the manufacturing of plastic and rubber products.. Products are manufactured into a wide variety of intermediate industrial and consumer end product applications.

The chemical industry is one of Europe’s largest industrial sectors. Developments in the last 10 years show that the EU was the leader in world chemicals sales but has lost ground against Asia. In Finland, the chemical industry is one of the three major industries, with the most important customers being the forest and electronics industries as well as transport