Manufacturing companies in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

There are 51,303 companies in manufacturing (ISIC C) registered in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: 51,303 active and 51,298 in the clean B2B universe. Rio Grande do Sul ranks 5th of 27 states for the section and holds 8.8% of its national total (data as of 2026-10-10). The sector is over-represented here: section C is 7.1% of all records in Rio Grande do Sul against 5.4% nationally, a location quotient of 1.33.

Caxias do Sul concentrates 10.2% of the active companies, followed by Porto Alegre (3,917) and Novo Hamburgo (2,185); the three together hold 22.1%. The median active company is 13.5 years old; 6% were registered in the last year and 16% in the last three. In the 12 months to September 2026, 2,574 new manufacturing businesses were registered in Rio Grande do Sul, -0.4% on the previous 12 months (national section C: +7.7%). By ISIC division, 25 (manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment) is 14.4% of the records and 10 (manufacture of food products) 13.3%. Size is known for 85% of the active companies; 75% 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.