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 and industrial permitting authorities (IED/BAT permits for ferrous foundries), company registries, ISO 9001/IATF 16949… | Per installation / per legal entity | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices (SBS, labour force surveys), foundry industry associations' wage/skills surveys, works councils and unions | Annual employment and wage aggregates per NACE class and region; headcount per… | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Occupational safety regulators (OSHA inspection/injury data, EU-OSHA, national labour inspectorates); workers' compensation insurers… | Per incident/inspection per establishment; annual injury rates by industry code | public |
| waste & emissions | Environmental regulators (EU Industrial Emissions Portal / E-PRTR, US EPA TRI and GHGRP, national permit authorities); operators' EMS… | Annual per-installation pollutant and waste quantities; permit-level monitoring… | public |
| production output | Steel foundries; national foundry associations (e.g. CAEF, American Foundry Society); national statistical offices (Eurostat PRODCOM)… | Per-furnace/heat and per-order internally; monthly to annual tonnage aggregates… | public |
| pricing | Price reporting agencies (Fastmarkets, Argus, S&P Global Platts, Kallanish) for scrap, ferroalloys, pig iron; LME/ferrous indices… | Daily/weekly index per grade and region; per-quote or per-order for actual… | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | Regulators' installation registries, satellite/thermal imagery vendors (Planet, Sentinel-based analytics firms) detecting foundry activity | Per site coordinates; per-image (weekly/daily) thermal or activity signal | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Customs authorities and trade-data vendors (Eurostat Comext, UN Comtrade, Panjiva/ImportGenius bills of lading); freight forwarders serving… | Per shipment (bills of lading) or monthly HS-code trade flows by country pair | purchasable |
| financial filings | National company registers and business-information vendors (Bureau van Dijk Orbis, Creditsafe, Dun & Bradstreet); listed foundry groups'… | Annual per legal entity; quarterly for listed groups | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Foundries (scrap, ferroalloy, sand, refractory stocks); scrap merchants; ferroalloy traders | Per material per site, weekly/monthly | partnership |
| energy consumption | Foundry operators; electricity suppliers and grid operators; national energy agencies and energy-audit registries (EU EED audits, ISO 50001… | kWh per tonne melted per site; half-hourly meter data; annual site totals in… | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Foundry operators (melt capacity utilisation, mould line uptime); industry associations' capacity utilisation surveys; national business… | Per line/furnace shift internally; quarterly capacity-utilisation percentages… | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Foundry metallurgical labs; third-party testing and certification bodies (TÜV, SGS, Bureau Veritas, Lloyd's Register); notified bodies for… | Per heat / per casting lot (chemistry, mechanical tests, NDT: RT, UT, MPI… | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Foundry ERP systems (SAP, ProShop, foundry-specific MES vendors); OEM customers' procurement systems | Per order line / per casting delivered | exclusive |
| sensor/IoT | Foundry operators; furnace and automation vendors (Inductotherm, ABB, Siemens, ASK Chemicals sand-testing systems); thermal analysis… | Per heat / per second per furnace, mould line and sand plant sensors | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Foundry maintenance/CMMS systems; furnace-lining and refractory suppliers with service contracts; crane and induction-equipment OEM service… | Per asset (furnace, mould line, ladle) per maintenance event; lining campaign… | 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.