Manufacturing companies in Manabí, Ecuador

There are 1,618 companies in manufacturing (ISIC C) registered in Manabí, Ecuador: 957 active and 956 in the clean B2B universe. Manabí ranks 4th of 24 provinces for the section and holds 4.8% of its national total (data as of 2026-10-01). Its weight in the local economy is close to the national mix: 5.6% of Manabí's records against 5.9% nationally (location quotient 0.95).

Manta concentrates 34.3% of the active companies, followed by Portoviejo (237) and Montecristi (77); the three together hold 67.1%. The median active company is 8.9 years old; 8% were registered in the last year and 20% in the last three. In the 12 months to September 2026, 75 new manufacturing businesses were registered in Manabí, +25.0% on the previous 12 months (national section C: +14.6%). By ISIC division, 10 (manufacture of food products) is 34.4% of the records and 14 (manufacture of wearing apparel) 13.3%.

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.