Manufacturing companies in Minas Gerais, Brazil

The Receita Federal (CNPJ registry) lists 65,796 manufacturing companies (factories and industrial producers) in Minas Gerais, of which 65,796 are active. With 11.3% of Brazil's section C records, Minas Gerais is the 2nd largest of the country's 27 states for this sector (extraction 2026-10-10). Its weight in the local economy is close to the national mix: 5.8% of Minas Gerais's records against 5.4% nationally (location quotient 1.07).

Belo Horizonte concentrates 11.7% of the active companies, followed by Contagem (3,292) and Uberlandia (2,538); the three together hold 20.6%. The median active company is 8.6 years old; 8% were registered in the last year and 22% in the last three. In the 12 months to September 2026, 4,807 new manufacturing businesses were registered in Minas Gerais, +4.9% on the previous 12 months (national section C: +7.7%). By ISIC division, 10 (manufacture of food products) is 20.0% of the records and 25 (manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment) 11.7%. Size is known for 87% of the active companies; 81% of those are micro.

This is the section industrial software, ERP, IIoT, logistics, trade-finance and equipment vendors buy most. Division 10 (food) and 25 (fabricated metal products) are usually the largest; 14 (apparel) and 31 (furniture) add many small workshops; 33 (repair and installation of machinery) inflates the count with small service shops, so filter it out for a pure producer list. Size and employee fields matter here more than anywhere: use them where the registry publishes them.