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 | EMA/EDQM (CEP certificates, API master files), FDA (DMFs, establishment registrations), national medicines agencies, EU GMP database… | per site, per substance, per certificate with issue/expiry dates | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices (SBS/structural business statistics), company HR systems, works councils | headcount per site annually; NACE-level employment aggregates by region | public |
| energy consumption | Plant utilities/energy managers, EU ETS registry for combustion installations, national energy statistics agencies | per site annual (ETS/statistics), per meter hourly internally | public |
| financial filings | Listed API producers and CDMOs, national company registers, financial data vendors | per legal entity, quarterly/annual; segment revenue | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Seveso/major-accident authorities (eMARS), national occupational safety inspectorates, insurers, company EHS systems | per incident per site | public |
| waste & emissions | E-PRTR/EU Industrial Emissions Portal, national environmental agencies, company sustainability reports; solvent and antibiotic-effluent data | per facility per pollutant per year; waste transfers per year | public |
| production output | Manufacturers' MES/batch records, Eurostat PRODCOM and national statistical offices, INCB/UNODC for narcotic and psychotropic API… | per batch internally; per product-code annual national totals in PRODCOM; per… | public |
| quality & compliance testing | Manufacturers' QC labs and LIMS, FDA (483s, warning letters, import alerts), EMA/EDQM GMP non-compliance reports, Rapid Alert System… | per batch per test parameter internally; per inspection/observation per site… | public |
| transactional/sales | API manufacturers (e.g. Teva API, Dr. Reddy's, Lonza), their formulator customers, and market intelligence vendors compiling API… | per contract/purchase order or per molecule-per-customer, aggregated… | purchasable |
| pricing | API buyers and sellers, price-reporting vendors (e.g. Chemical/pharma price indices, PharmaCompass, Kemiex), customs-derived price databases | per molecule per shipment or per kg, monthly averages by origin/destination | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Customs authorities, freight forwarders and cold-chain carriers, trade-data vendors (Panjiva, ImportGenius, Zauba, Eurostat Comext) | per shipment/bill of lading with HS code, quantity, consignor/consignee | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | API manufacturers' ERP systems, downstream formulators, regulators tracking shortages (EMA, FDA, national agencies) | per batch/lot per site, weekly-to-monthly stock positions; shortage… | partnership |
| customer demographics | API producers' commercial teams and CRM; market-research vendors mapping API-to-formulator-to-finished-dose linkages (e.g. via DMF/CEP… | per customer account per molecule | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Manufacturers' process control/SCADA and historian systems (OSIsoft PI, Siemens), automation vendors | per reactor/unit operation, seconds-to-minutes time series per batch | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Plant maintenance/CMMS systems (SAP PM, Maximo), equipment qualification records, engineering service vendors | per asset per work order, calibration/qualification cycles | 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.