Chemicals Market Insights
All the elements. All in one place.
Overview
Our best-in-class chemical market insights cover everything from feedstocks, building blocks, base chemicals, their derivatives, specialty chemicals, and end-use markets.
- Spot and seize opportunities in the dynamic and complex chemical markets with our extensive intelligence of robust chemicals pricing, real-time news, market commentary heards, as well as chemical freights.
- Gain a competitive edge with comprehensive chemical market analysis, price forecasting, and insights into success factors, regulations, and industry structure, enabling you to navigate short- and long-term chemical market trends and seize future opportunities.
- Leverage our global chemical asset database and company profiles to benchmark your performance, identify threats, and seize strategic opportunities.
- Stay ahead with detailed evaluations of emerging technologies, OpEx and CapEx analysis, and operational cost improvements, driving innovation in your chemical processes.
Commodity & Intermediate Chemicals
- Olefins & Derivatives
- Aromatics & Derivatives
- Plastics & Polymers
- Syngas & Derivatives
- Inorganics & Derivatives
- Feedstocks
- Solvents
- Intermediates
- Recycled plastics polymers
- Chemicals freight
Specialty Chemicals
- Resins & Coatings
- Renewables & Nutrition
- Intermediates, Fibers & Films
- Polymers & Elastomers
- Industrial Gases & Fertilizers
- Solvents & Surfactants
- Inorganics & Minerals
Key Features
Product Features
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Price Assessments & Benchmarks
Accurate chemical price assessments of over 70 chemicals markets for all global regions, accompanied by market commentary, rationales, and heards and real-time news.
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Short-term Market Analysis
Monthly updated analysis of short-term trends in supply and demand, including capacity, production, import, exports, net trade and more for a sub-set of chemicals. Access to short-term price forecasts based on Platts price assessments, short-term cash costs and margins help users anticipate price movements and make informed decisions. Information on plant outages and disruptions allows to be alert in the event of any force majeure. History is available up to 24 months and up to 24 months of forecasts.
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Short-term Outlooks
Monthly short-term outlook report that provides experts analysis of short-term macroeconomics picture, supply and demand drivers, regional analysis of cost, margins and trade as well as short-term supply, demand and price forecast. It also includes global outages, planned and unplanned.
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Long-term Market Analysis
Bi-annually updated in-depth analysis of long-term trends in supply and demand, including capacity, production, imports, exports, net trade and more, for chemicals in 95 countries. Access to long-term price forecasts based on Platts price assessments, long-term cash costs and margins help users anticipate price movements and make informed decisions. Insights into factors influencing long-term market dynamics, such as economic growth, regulatory changes and consumer trends. History available to 2010 and forecasts to 2050.
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Long-term Outlooks
Expert analysis and commentaries on long-term market trends, emerging challenges and opportunities which allows to gain insights into individual market dynamics, trends and drivers. Includes overview of capacity, supply and demand, and trade trends.
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Market Profiles
Take advantage of in-depth coverage of highly interconnected markets from a global perspective, while addressing regional differences and similarities, analyzing key issues facing both suppliers and their end-use customers. Our Chemicals Economics Handbook (CEH) and Specialty Chemicals Update Program (SCUP) reports provide in-depth insights you need, with coverage of over 300 chemicals, specialty chemicals and plastics. Access to five, 10 year forecasts, overview of industry structure, government regulations and other strategic issues.
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Technology Profiles
Whether you’re exploiting a proprietary technology or responding to a competitor’s move, you need oversight of new developments to help you make confident decisions – our Process Economics Program Reports and Reviews, and Process Economics Program Yearbook enables you to make informed decisions. Access 2,100+ essential and emerging technologies, including sustainable and low carbon.
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Assets & Companies Analysis
Get a clearer view of your competitors’ strategies and assets with our ongoing evaluation of company performance, helping you identify potential threats and opportunities. Access Global Assets, Directory of Chemicals Producers, and Companies Strategy and Performance at your fingertips. Access to 15,000 chemical producers from 90 countries and 10,000 production assets.
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Cost & Margins
Assess the cost and margin positions of operating chemical plants according to geography, capacity, time, technology, feedstock, operating rate and integration level.
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Customizable Visual Interface
- Gain visibility across multiple chemical markets at the same time via connected intelligence. We link commodity chemicals to specialty chemicals and end use markets providing a picture of the entire chemicals value chain.
- Simplify your workflows with pre-canned workspaces to get you started.
- Enable faster decision making.
- Access multiple data points for any given chemical: supply, demand, price benchmarks, trade data, costs, margins, and news.
- Create a customized view to suit your needs.
Who S&P Global Chemical Market Insights Helps
Sales & Marketing
- Identify the right selling opportunities
- Negotiate contracts with confidence
- Optimize your customer and product portfolio
- Reduce risk in trading decisions
Strategic Planners
- Deliver a credible business strategy
- Validate investment plans
- Identify market opportunities and risks
- Assess the competitive landscape
Procurement
- Source chemical raw materials
- Optimize supplier portfolio
- Make informed buying decisions
- Negotiate effective supply contracts
Business Development / Management
- Determine realistic targets and budgets
- Identify growth opportunities
- Maximize price setting
- Build value-based commercial strategies
Financial Analysis
- Complete accurate and timely competitor analysis
- Evaluate success of projects and business units
- Provide accurate and confident evaluations of future investments
- Understand the best method to deploy capital
Trading
- Identify profitable trading opportunities
- Managing trading risk
- Access to short-term forecasts
- Develop point of view on short-term market movements
Engineering
- Benchmark chemical processes and capital costs
- Select process technology for new plants
- Balance carbon emissions and ROI
- Reduce the risk of your capital investment plans
Data & Distribution
Get the edge in today’s global markets with our Essential Intelligence® delivered through the providers and platforms which suit you.
API Solutions
Cloud
Data Feed
Desktop & Mobile
Why Choose S&P Global Chemicals Market Insights?
Connected Intelligence
Seamlessly connect our Chemicals insights with S&P Global’s coverage of Crude Oil, Refined Products, NGLs, economic indicators and trade. We also have link commodity chemicals to specialty chemicals and end use markets providing a picture of the entire chemicals value chain. Because of S&P Global’s extensive coverage of commodities and markets you can be confident in the assumptions behind our Chemicals insights and ensure a consistent, integrated outlook across your entire business.
Integrated with Benchmarks
Chemical price forecasts are based on Platts price assessments so you can seamlessly access price history, today’s price, and our outlook.
All-in-One Platform
Simplify workflows with all the benefits of a modern digital service and a single-screen view of chemicals research, insights, prices, and news for faster decision-making.
Your Data, Your Way
Flexibility to customize our data and insight to fit your workflow. Download data for further chemical market analysis and power your organization by consuming our API.
Comprehensive Insights
Explore dynamics, trends and drivers across a wide spectrum of chemical markets.
Access to Industry Experts:
Globally distributed experts across the chemicals markets, able to provide you with expert critical analysis.
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