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 Industrial Emissions Directive permits, national EPA equivalents); business registers; REACH/ECHA… | Per installation/site permit; per substance registration | public |
| employment & workforce | Statistical offices (SBS, labour force surveys); works councils and sector collective bargaining bodies; company filings | Annual headcount and wages per NACE class and region; per site in filings | public |
| financial filings | National company registers (Companies House, Bundesanzeiger, INPI); listed converters' annual reports; credit bureaus (Creditreform, D&B… | Annual per legal entity; some quarterly for listed groups | public |
| incident/safety/claims | National occupational safety authorities (HSE, BG ETEM, OSHA); insurers; company EHS systems | Per reportable incident; annual injury rates per establishment or sector | public |
| waste & emissions | E-PRTR / national pollutant release registers; EU ETS for larger combustion units; operators' internal scrap/regrind records; waste shippers | Annual per facility in public registers; per line scrap rate internally | public |
| production output | Extrusion plant operators (ERP/MES systems); national statistical offices via PRODCOM surveys; Eurostat; industry associations… | Per line per shift/batch internally; monthly or annual tonnage by PRODCOM… | public |
| pricing | Polymer price reporting agencies (ICIS, Argus, Platts, Kunststoff Information, Plastixx/PIE); converters' purchasing departments | Weekly/monthly price per tonne by resin grade (PE, PP, PVC, PET) and region… | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Freight forwarders and hauliers; customs authorities (HS codes 3916–3921 for profiles, tubes, sheets); trade databases (Eurostat Comext, UN… | Per shipment in bill-of-lading data; monthly by HS code and country in trade… | purchasable |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Plant planners (capacity/line utilisation); market research firms (AMI, Smithers) tracking capacity by plant | Per extrusion line utilisation rate; plant-level nameplate capacity in… | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Converters' ERP/warehouse systems; resin suppliers and compounders; distributors | Per SKU per warehouse, daily/weekly stock and resin days-of-cover | partnership |
| energy consumption | Plant energy managers and ISO 50001 systems; utilities and grid operators; national energy statistics for the plastics sector | Half-hourly per meter/site internally; annual sector aggregates publicly | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Manufacturers' QC labs; notified/testing bodies (TÜV, SKZ, Kiwa, Bodycote); certification schemes for pipes (DIN CERTCO, NSF, WRAS)… | Per batch/lot test report; per product-type certificate | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Manufacturers' ERP systems; distributors of semi-finished plastics (e.g. sheet distributors) | Per order line / per delivery, customer and product level | exclusive |
| sensor/IoT | Plant operators; extruder OEMs (Battenfeld-Cincinnati, KraussMaffei, Reifenhäuser, Davis-Standard) with connected-machine platforms; MES… | Per machine, sub-second to minute-level (melt temperature/pressure, screw… | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Plant maintenance/CMMS systems; extruder and die OEM service organisations | Per machine work order; downtime events and OEE per line | exclusive |
| communications/marketing performance | Manufacturers' marketing teams; trade fair organisers (K Fair, Fakuma) lead data; B2B platforms (Europages, ThomasNet) | Per campaign / per lead / per listing | 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.