Manufacturing companies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Receita Federal (CNPJ registry) lists 30,129 manufacturing companies (factories and industrial producers) in Rio de Janeiro, of which 30,129 are active. With 5.2% of Brazil's section C records, Rio de Janeiro is the 6th largest of the country's 27 states for this sector (extraction 2026-10-10). The sector is under-represented here: 3.7% of Rio de Janeiro's records against 5.4% nationally (location quotient 0.68).

The city of Rio de Janeiro concentrates 37.8% of the active companies, followed by Duque de Caxias (2,052) and Sao Goncalo (1,336); the three together hold 49.1%. The median active company is 10.2 years old; 7% were registered in the last year and 19% in the last three. In the 12 months to September 2026, 1,818 new manufacturing businesses were registered in Rio de Janeiro, +6.2% on the previous 12 months (national section C: +7.7%). By ISIC division, 33 (repair and installation of machinery and equipment) is 19.7% of the records and 14 (manufacture of wearing apparel) 15.2%. Size is known for 85% of the active companies; 78% 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.