Manufacturing companies in Santander, Colombia

There are 5,992 companies in manufacturing (ISIC C) registered in Santander, Colombia: 3,226 active and 3,213 in the clean B2B universe. Santander ranks 5th of 30 departments for the section and holds 3.9% of its national total (data as of 2026-10-02). Its weight in the local economy is close to the national mix: 8.4% of Santander's records against 8.5% nationally (location quotient 0.98).

Colombian rows carry the department of the chamber of commerce; the registry publishes a municipality for under 3% of them, so there is no city breakdown for Colombia. The median active company is 5.4 years old; 11% were registered in the last year and 32% in the last three. In the 12 months to September 2026, 349 new manufacturing businesses were registered in Santander, -8.6% on the previous 12 months (national section C: -5.2%). By ISIC division, 10 (manufacture of food products) is 17.9% of the records and 33 (repair and installation of machinery and equipment) 15.2%. Size is known for 5% of the active companies; 5% of those are micro and 108 are medium or large.

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.