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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| geospatial/movement | Regulator installation coordinates (E-PRTR, Seveso registers); OpenStreetMap industrial polygons; satellite imagery and SAR providers… | Per facility point/polygon; per satellite pass per site | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | Environmental regulators issuing IED/industrial emissions permits (Environment Agency, German Länder authorities, DGPR France, US EPA/state… | Per installation/permit; per substance per registrant | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices (SBS/structural business statistics, labour force survey by NACE 20.13); social security and works-council… | Annual per country per NACE class; headcount per site in company reports… | public |
| financial filings | Listed producers' annual/quarterly reports (BASF, Solvay, Olin, Westlake, Tronox, Nouryon, Tata Chemicals); national company registers… | Per legal entity, quarterly or annual; segment-level revenue and margins | public |
| incident/safety/claims | EU eMARS Seveso major-accident database; French ARIA/BARPI; US CSB investigations, EPA RMP accident-history data, OSHA inspection and… | Per reported incident/event; per inspection; per facility annual RMP five-year… | public |
| waste & emissions | E-PRTR / EU Industrial Emissions Portal; EU ETS registry and verified emissions tables; US EPA TRI, GHGRP and NEI; national waste transfer… | Annual per facility per pollutant; annual verified CO2 per installation… | public |
| production output | Producers' own MES/ERP systems; national statistical offices via Eurostat PRODCOM and monthly industrial production surveys; trade… | Internal: per batch/per line hourly-to-daily. Published: monthly or annual per… | public |
| pricing | Price reporting agencies (ICIS, Argus Media, S&P Global Commodity Insights, Fastmarkets, CRU) for caustic soda, chlorine, soda ash… | Weekly or monthly assessments per product, grade, region and Incoterm; contract… | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Rail operators moving tank cars (chlorine, caustic, sulphuric acid); chemical tanker/barge operators; AIS-based vessel tracking vendors… | Per shipment/bill of lading; per vessel voyage; monthly per HS code per country… | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Producers' ERP and vendor-managed inventory systems; tank terminal operators (Vopak, Rubis, Oiltanking); distributors; ammonia/chlorine… | Per tank/silo daily stock level; per site weeks-of-cover; supplier-contract… | partnership |
| energy consumption | Producers (electricity is dominant cost for chlor-alkali, electrolysis, industrial gases); grid operators and electricity suppliers… | Internal: 15-minute metered consumption per site/per electrolyser hall… | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Producer QC labs (certificates of analysis per lot); third-party testing/certification bodies (SGS, Bureau Veritas, Intertek); food/pharma… | Per batch/lot CoA; per audit/certificate per site | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Producers' ERP (SAP) order and invoice records; distributors of industrial chemicals (Brenntag, IMCD, Univar) | Per order line / per shipment, per customer | exclusive |
| sensor/IoT | Plant DCS/SCADA historians (Aspen IP.21, Honeywell, Siemens PCS7) at producer sites; automation and advanced-process-control vendors under… | Per tag, seconds-to-minutes (cell voltage, brine flow, reactor temperature, gas… | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Producers' CMMS/EAM (SAP PM, Maximo); turnaround/shutdown contractors; membrane and electrolyser cell suppliers (Asahi Kasei, ThyssenKrupp… | Per asset/work order; per turnaround campaign; per cell-room membrane lifetime | 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.