Chemicals Market Insights
All the elements. All in one place.
How can you plan two quarters or two decades ahead in chemical markets that reprice in weeks?
A crude price spike ripples into naphtha, reshapes cracker economics, and moves polymer prices before most teams have finished reconstructing what happened. Reading today's market is not enough. You need to know what comes next.
Chemical Market Insights is a comprehensive solution that brings together a suite of top-tier products: market analysis across three time horizons, price and supply/demand forecasts to 2050, fundamental datasets, technology and company research, and plant cost models, all in one connected view. Coverage spans the entire chain, from feedstocks and building blocks through base chemicals, derivatives, specialty chemicals, and end-use markets.
How We Help Each Role
Strategic Leaders
- Drive market entry, capacity investments, and portfolio decisions with forecasts tied directly to real-world prices.
- Anticipate global, regional, and country-level demand shifts through 2050.
- Evaluate asset competitiveness and commercial viability for new capacity.
- Present board-ready long-term strategies backed by robust, auditable data.
Market & Business Analysts
- Anticipate market movements rather than reconstructing past trends.
- Track weekly margin and spread developments at a glance using interactive dashboards, heat maps, and scorecards.
- Forecast short-term trends with monthly 1-to-2-year market outlooks.
- Spot tightening markets early using supply/demand datasets covering 80+ chemicals and 90+ countries.
Plant & Operations Managers
- Benchmark your facility directly against the global cost curve.
- Align procurement strategies, production runs, and capacity planning with real-time global supply dynamics.
- Analyze how feedstocks, operating rates, integration levels, and carbon emissions dictate your market position.
- Optimize plant margins against real, competing global assets instead of generic assumptions.
Technology & Engineering Leaders
- De-risk capital commitments by evaluating emerging technologies before investing.
- Compare 2,300+ process technologies using independent reviews of production economics, OpEx, and CapEx.
- Factor in regional economic differences with localized location-factor analyses.
- Accelerate cost-reduction and innovation initiatives using objective, data-driven insights.
Finance & Risk Analysts
- Stress-test budgets and business plans against realistic market trajectories.
- Quantify risk exposure across the cost curve using historical and projected price, cost, and margin data (2010–2050).
- Identify which competing producers will face pressure first during margin compressions.
Impact by Numbers
Key Features
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Near-Term, Short-Term and Long-Term Analysis
Synchronize your tactical moves and strategic plans using a single view across all three horizons. Access weekly petrochemical dashboards, margin heat maps, monthly outlooks for 25+ chemicals covering the next one to two years, and annual outlooks for 75+ chemicals through 2050.
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Fundamental Datasets
Feed quantitative data directly into your own models, screens, and planning tools:
- Price Forecasts: Test your strategies against a full price path instead of a single point estimate. Access short-term and long-term prices, cash costs, and margins for 40+ chemicals from 2010 to 2050.
- Supply and Demand: Spot tightening markets before prices react. Track ten datasets spanning capacity, production, utilization, inventory changes, and demand by derivative and end use across 80+ chemicals and 90+ countries.
- Assets and Outages: Know what is running, what is down, and what is coming next. Monitor capacity events, outages, and the Directory of Chemical Producers, covering 400+ chemicals, 34,000 molecules, and 15,000 producers with updates as frequent as daily.
- Trade Flows and Assumptions: Understand where material actually moves and how flows shift as capacity and policy reshape the map. Access trade flows and forecasts for 80+ chemicals across 90+ countries.
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Risk Data
Empower your finance and treasury teams to structure precise hedges and perform accurate valuations. Price your hedges directly against editorially assessed, quantitatively derived forward curves built specifically for your markets.
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In-Depth Profiles
Analyze markets, technologies, and competitors from a single source. Access research on 335+ chemicals, independent reviews of 2,300+ process technologies with production economics, and benchmarking profiles of refining and petrochemical companies.
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Plant Costs and Margins
Determine exactly where any asset sits on the cost curve. Use Excel workbooks to model the cost and margin position of 6,000 plants across 45+ chemicals, covering feedstocks, process technologies, operating rates, integration levels, and carbon emissions.
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News, Spotlights & Briefings
Stay ahead of geopolitical events, new regulations, and emerging risks as they develop. Gain access to breaking news, market commentary, and forward-looking analysis with commodity and regional focus, including the Chemical Week 25+ year archive.
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Events and Support
Contact chemical industry specialists, attend regional and global events, participate in webinars, and use our learning center and 24/7 client support to get the answers you need.
AI-Powered Data and Insights
Three ways our AI solutions puts decades of chemicals intelligence to work for you:
Data Delivered Your Way
Core Platform
Customizable visual interface with integrated Chat AI
API
Direct data integration and access
Excel Add-in
Seamless spreadsheet integration
Cloud
Multi-provider deployment (Snowflake, AWS, Azure, Databricks, GCP, Alibaba)
Python SDK& Notebooks
Developer tools and analytics environment
AI
Chat AI, AI-Ready Data, AI Addendum, MCP
Why Chemical Market Insights
Forecasts anchored to real prices
Our outlooks stay connected to the same PRA-registered assessments the market trades on. No drift between the forecast and the floor.
Decades of market memory
Cycles repeat, patterns rhyme. We have tracked prices, capacity, and technology since 1965, and it is one question away.
One version of the market
Strategy, operations, and finance work from the same forecasts and fundamentals. No internal debates about whose numbers are right.
The full value chain, across commodities, connected
A fully integrated platform spanning oil, gas, agriculture, metals, shipping, power and more, connecting chemical value chains with related insights and services.
AI that sharpens instincts
Surfacing what matters, cutting through the noise, and making sure nothing slips through.
Visibility into competitors
Ongoing evaluation of 15,000 producers' assets and performance, so you see threats and opportunities first.
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