What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | National environmental permit authorities (IED/IPPC), food business registration authorities, excise/customs where malt is controlled | Per installation/site permit record | public |
| employment & workforce | Operators' HR systems, Eurostat/national statistical offices (SBS by NACE 11.06), trade unions | Per-site headcount internally; annual national aggregates by NACE class | public |
| logistics & freight movement | Bulk shipping agents, port authorities, customs authorities (Eurostat Comext, UN Comtrade), rail/barge operators | Per shipment / per vessel call; monthly HS-code 1107 trade flows | public |
| financial filings | Company registries (e.g. Belgian NBB, French INPI, UK Companies House), listed parents (Axereal, Boortmalt/Axereal, Malteries… | Annual per legal entity; segment reporting for groups | public |
| incident/safety/claims | National labour inspectorates, operators' EHS systems, insurers (grain dust explosion risk) | Per incident; annual site aggregates | public |
| weather-dependent metrics | National met services, crop monitoring services (JRC MARS, Copernicus), barley breeders and cooperatives | Daily gridded weather; per-region seasonal malting barley quality/yield outlooks | public |
| waste & emissions | Operators, EU ETS and E-PRTR registries, national environmental agencies, wastewater utilities | Per-installation annual CO2, dust and effluent load; rootlet/culm byproduct… | public |
| production output | Maltsters (e.g. Malteurop, Boortmalt, Soufflet, Viking Malt), national maltsters' associations, Euromalt, FAO/Eurostat (PRODCOM) | Per-plant batch/kiln lot internally; monthly to annual national and company… | public |
| pricing | Malt traders and brewers, price reporting agencies (RMI Analytics/Stratégie Grains), Euronext/CME for malting barley futures, FranceAgriMer | Per contract/tonne; weekly and monthly regional benchmark quotes | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Maltsters, grain cooperatives and traders, port silo operators, national grain agencies (e.g. FranceAgriMer, Coceral) | Per-silo stock levels weekly/monthly; national stock aggregates monthly | partnership |
| energy consumption | Maltsters (steeping/germination/kilning is energy-intensive), energy suppliers, national energy agencies, EU ETS registry for larger sites | Per-site monthly gas and electricity; per-tonne malt intensity benchmarks | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Malthouse QC labs, barley intake labs, EBC/ASBC-accredited third-party labs, grain trade bodies | Per malt lot / per barley delivery (extract, friability, protein, DP… | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Maltsters' commercial systems, brewing/distilling customers, distributors of craft-scale malt | Per contract and per shipment (tonnes, spec, destination) | exclusive |
| sensor/IoT | Malthouse process control systems (SCADA/PLC from vendors like Bühler, Seeger/Ziemann, Schmidt-Seeger), automation integrators | Minute-level per steeping vessel, germination box and kiln (moisture… | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Maltsters' CMMS, equipment OEMs and service contractors | Per asset work order and downtime event | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.