B2B prospect lists for the Netherlands.

01  The Dutch market

Twelve provinces, one dense industrial network

The Netherlands has twelve provinces, from Groningen and Fryslân in the north to Zeeland, Noord-Brabant and Limburg in the south. Distances are short, but the industrial map is far from uniform: the process industry clusters around the ports and a handful of chemical sites, high-tech manufacturing concentrates around Eindhoven, life sciences around Leiden and Oss, and the agrifood sector spreads from the greenhouses of South Holland to the Foodvalley around Wageningen. A researched prospect list follows that map instead of treating the country as one block.

Industrial and chemicals: ports and five chemical clusters

Rotterdam is the busiest port in the EU by goods handled. In 2025 it handled 428.4 million tonnes of freight, and the port area hosts more than 120 industrial companies and a strong petrochemical cluster. Chemical production is concentrated in clusters around Rotterdam/Moerdijk, Terneuzen/Bergen op Zoom in the southwest, the Eemsdelta around Delfzijl, Emmen, and Chemelot in Sittard-Geleen, Limburg. Chemelot alone covers some 800 hectares with more than 150 companies and institutions and around 8,000 people working on site. In Delfzijl, salt and natural gas are upgraded into chlorine, hydrogen, caustic soda and methanol, accounting for about 15% of Dutch chemical production. In Emmen, the chemical cluster increasingly focuses on mechanical and chemical recycling.

In Noord-Brabant, the Brainport Eindhoven region is a centre of Dutch high-tech systems and semiconductor equipment, with more than 5,000 tech and IT companies and a supplier base spanning tier one to tier three.

Pharma and life sciences: Leiden, Oss and Maastricht

Leiden Bio Science Park in South Holland hosts the largest concentration of life sciences and health activity in the Netherlands, according to the 2024 national campus inventory by Buck Consultants International, with 519 organisations and more than 26,000 professionals, covering the chain from basic research to production. Oss in Noord-Brabant, home of the biopharma campus Pivot Park, hosts more than 60 life science companies including contract manufacturers and contract research organisations. In Limburg, the Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus adds another hub, while Chemelot links chemistry and materials to life sciences.

Energy and environmental technology: from gas to wind and solar

The Dutch energy system is changing fast. Gas extraction from the Groningen field ended permanently by law on 19 April 2024. In 2025, renewable sources supplied 49% of Dutch electricity production: wind 24% and solar 19%. By the end of 2025, wind capacity stood at 7.0 GW on land and 4.7 GW at sea. Offshore wind produced 15.6 billion kWh in 2025, up on 2024 because wind farms that started operating in 2024 ran for a full year.

Food and agriculture: €137.5 billion in exports

Dutch agricultural exports reached an estimated €137.5 billion in 2025, led by dairy products and eggs, cocoa products, horticulture and meat. Regio Foodvalley, a cooperation of eight municipalities including Ede and Wageningen with Wageningen University & Research at its core, works on knowledge and innovation for healthy and sustainable food and is part of the FoodNL alliance with AgriFood Capital, FruitDelta Rivierenland and Greenport Venlo. Greenport West-Holland in South Holland is a greenhouse horticulture and fresh-logistics cluster with 607 grower companies on 4,500 hectares.

How a Dutch list is built

Choose your unit, describe what you sell and name the provinces or regions you want covered, or the whole country. Nexfield works through all 56 sub-sectors of your unit and returns only companies that are probable buyers, never your competitors. Each row comes with province, city, sub-sector, company size, a priority rating and one sentence explaining why the company belongs on your list.