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 | ECHA (REACH registrations, SVHC, biocides), national environmental agencies (IED/industrial emissions permits), explosives and precursor… | Per substance per registrant; per installation per permit | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices (SBS, labour force surveys), sector associations (Cefic), company reports | Annual headcount per NACE class per region; per-site in company data | public |
| logistics & freight movement | Chemical logistics providers, tank container operators, rail/barge carriers; customs authorities (HS-code trade flows via Eurostat Comext… | Per shipment/consignment internally; monthly HS-code flows publicly | public |
| financial filings | Listed specialty chemical firms (annual/segment reports), national business registers for private manufacturers, credit bureaus (Orbis… | Per legal entity, annual/quarterly | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Seveso III competent authorities and eMARS major accident database; national OSH inspectorates; US CSB/EPA RMP for analogues; insurers | Per incident per establishment; annual injury rates per site | public |
| waste & emissions | Operators reporting to E-PRTR/EU Industrial Emissions Portal, national PRTRs, US EPA TRI; EU ETS for combustion installations | Annual per facility per pollutant; ETS annual verified CO2 per installation | public |
| production output | Manufacturers' plant MES/ERP systems; national statistical offices (Eurostat PRODCOM, national industry surveys) for aggregated volumes | Per batch/line internally; annual per PRODCOM product code and country publicly | public |
| pricing | Price reporting agencies (ICIS, Argus, S&P Global Commodity Insights, Tecnon OrbiChem); distributor list prices | Weekly/monthly price assessment per product per region | purchasable |
| customer demographics | Producers' CRM segmentation by downstream industry; market research firms (Grand View, Kline, Frost & Sullivan) end-use split studies | Per customer account; per end-use segment share per region | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Specialty chemical producers (adhesives, essential oils, additives) ERP/CRM; distributors such as IMCD, Brenntag, Univar | Per order line / per customer per SKU; monthly aggregates in segment reporting | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Producers' and distributors' ERP/WMS; tank terminal operators for bulk intermediates | Per SKU per warehouse, daily/weekly | partnership |
| energy consumption | Plant energy management systems; grid/gas suppliers; national statistical energy balances for the chemical sector; EU ETS installation fuel… | Site-level metered (15-min/hourly) internally; annual sectoral aggregates… | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Producer QC labs (CoA per batch); third-party labs (SGS, Intertek, Eurofins); ECHA/REACH dossier study summaries; pharmacopoeia/ISO… | Per batch CoA; per substance endpoint study | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Producers' DCS/SCADA and historian systems (reactor temperature, pressure, flow, batch traces); automation vendors' cloud platforms | Per tag per second/minute per unit operation | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Operators' CMMS/EAM (SAP PM, Maximo); notified bodies and pressure-equipment inspection contractors | Per asset per work order / per inspection | exclusive |
| communications/marketing performance | Producers' and distributors' digital marketing teams; B2B chemical marketplaces (Knowde, ChemDirect) traffic and sample-request data | Per campaign / per product page, monthly | 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.