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 | Environmental regulators (EU IED/E-PRTR permits, US EPA, state agencies), forest certification bodies (FSC, PEFC), chain-of-custody… | Per installation/permit; per certificate holder | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices (SBS/Eurostat), industry associations, trade unions, company reports | Annual headcount per NACE class per region; per mill in company disclosures | public |
| energy consumption | Mill operators, grid/CHP operators (mills are large power producers/consumers), national energy statistics, EU ETS registry for fossil fuel… | Per mill per hour internally; annual GJ/tonne benchmarks in BREF and… | public |
| financial filings | Listed producers' annual/quarterly reports, national company registries, credit bureaus | Quarterly/annual per legal entity; segment-level pulp revenue and EBITDA per… | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Occupational safety regulators (OSHA, national labour inspectorates), Seveso/major-hazard authorities, insurers (FM Global), company safety… | Per incident; annual LTIF per mill/company | public |
| weather-dependent metrics | National meteorological services, forest agencies (frost/thaw and rainfall affect harvesting and wood supply), hydrological services for… | Daily per station/region | public |
| waste & emissions | E-PRTR/EEA industrial emissions portal, US EPA TRI and GHGRP, national inventories, mill sustainability reports, CDP | Annual per facility per pollutant; some monthly self-monitoring reports to… | public |
| production output | Mill operators, national statistics offices, FAOSTAT ForesSTAT, PPPC/CEPI/Europulp industry associations | Per mill per day internally; monthly/annual tonnes by grade and country in… | public |
| pricing | Price reporting agencies (Fastmarkets FOEX, RISI/Fastmarkets, Numera/EUWID), pulp producers' contract desks, Europulp/PPPC statistics | Weekly or monthly benchmark price per grade (NBSK, BHKP, BEK) per region… | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Producers, Europulp (European port pulp stocks), PPPC world-20 producer stocks, port warehouse operators | Monthly producer and port stocks in tonnes/days of supply; per-warehouse… | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Shipping lines and breakbulk operators, port authorities, customs (HS 4703), AIS data vendors, rail carriers | Per vessel call/shipment; monthly port throughput tonnes | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Pulp producers (Suzano, UPM, Stora Enso, Arauco), trading houses and agents, customs authorities for cross-border sales | Per shipment/contract internally; aggregated monthly export volumes by HS… | partnership |
| geospatial/movement | Wood procurement organisations, forest agencies, satellite/remote sensing vendors, mill fibre-sourcing systems | Per truckload/harvest block; wood catchment areas per mill | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Mill labs and QCS, customers' incoming inspection, third-party labs, ISO/TAPPI test standards; chain-of-custody auditors | Per bale lot/reel: kappa number, brightness, viscosity, tensile/tear indices | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Mill operators via DCS/QCS systems (Valmet, ABB, Honeywell, Andritz), automation vendors hosting cloud analytics | Second- to minute-level tags per digester, bleach line, recovery boiler, dryer | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Mill maintenance departments (SAP PM/IBM Maximo), OEM service organisations (Andritz, Valmet), boiler inspection authorities | Per asset, per work order; annual shutdown/maintenance downtime schedules | 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.