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 permitting authorities (IED/BAT permits), ECHA (REACH registrations, tonnage bands), US EPA TSCA inventory, Seveso III… | Per substance registration; per site permit | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices (SBS, QCEW), company HR systems, chemical-sector trade unions and employers' federations | Per site headcount; NACE-class employment and wage aggregates annually | public |
| financial filings | Listed producers (SEC 10-K, EU annual reports), national business registers, credit bureaus (D&B, Bureau van Dijk Orbis) | Per legal entity, quarterly/annual; segment revenue by product family | public |
| incident/safety/claims | eMARS/Major Accident Reporting System, US Chemical Safety Board, OSHA inspection and injury records, national labour inspectorates… | Per incident; per site per inspection; annual injury rates per company | public |
| waste & emissions | Regulators — E-PRTR/EU Industrial Emissions Portal, US EPA TRI and GHGRP, EU ETS registry; operators' sustainability reports | Per installation per pollutant per year; ETS allowances per installation per… | public |
| pricing | Price reporting agencies (ICIS, Argus, S&P Global Platts, Tecnon OrbiChem), commodity exchanges, producer contract desks | Per product grade per region, daily to monthly assessments; contract vs spot | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | Regulatory site registers with coordinates (E-PRTR), pipeline operators (ethylene/propylene pipeline grids), satellite imagery and… | Per site location; per pipeline segment; per satellite pass thermal/plume… | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Chemical tanker and ISO-tank operators, rail tank car lessors (GATX, VTG), terminal operators (Vopak, Oiltanking), customs and port… | Per shipment/voyage/railcar movement; per port call | purchasable |
| production output | Plant operators (BASF, Dow, INEOS, LyondellBasell, SABIC), industry associations (Cefic, ACC, Petrochemicals Europe), national statistics… | Per plant nameplate capacity and monthly/annual output; aggregated national… | purchasable |
| maintenance & asset condition | Operators' CMMS (SAP PM, Maximo), turnaround contractors, inspection service firms; turnaround schedules tracked by PRAs and consultancies | Per equipment item work order; plant turnaround/outage events per site per year | purchasable |
| customer demographics | Producers' CRM and distributors' account systems; market research firms segmenting downstream end-use (polymers, agrochem, pharma… | Per customer account and end-use segment share, annual | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Producers' ERP/SAP systems, distributors (Brenntag, Univar), customs authorities via trade declarations | Per order/invoice internally; per HS-code shipment in customs data | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Producers and distributors, tank terminal operators, industry stock surveys (e.g. methanol/olefin inventory reports) | Per tank/warehouse SKU weekly; regional stock aggregates monthly | partnership |
| energy consumption | Site operators and their energy managers, grid/gas TSOs for large industrial connections, national energy balances (Eurostat, EIA MECS) | Half-hourly per meter internally; annual sector or per-site aggregates in… | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Producer QC labs (certificates of analysis), third-party labs (SGS, Intertek, Bureau Veritas), customer incoming inspection | Per batch/lot certificate of analysis with spec parameters | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Plant DCS/historian systems (OSIsoft PI, Honeywell, Yokogawa, Emerson) operated by producers; automation vendors under service contracts | Per tag per second/minute (temperature, pressure, flow, reactor conditions) | 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.