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 (US EPA/state air permits, EU IED/industrial emissions permits, national registers), PRI Nadcap qualified supplier… | Per site / per accreditation scope, updated on renewal | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical agencies (US BLS QCEW/OES, Eurostat SBS) for the heat-treatment class; operators' HR systems; metallurgical-technician… | Establishment-level counts, industry-level annual aggregates by region and… | public |
| financial filings | Companies registries and stock exchanges for listed/large heat treat groups (Bodycote, Aalberts, ALD/AMG, HÄRTHA, Paulo); credit bureaus… | Per legal entity, annual/semi-annual; segment revenue by region | public |
| incident/safety/claims | OSHA and national labour inspectorates (fire, burn, quench-oil flash, atmosphere-gas incidents); insurers of thermal-processing risks; fire… | Per inspection / per recordable incident per establishment | public |
| waste & emissions | Operators; regulators via emissions inventories (EPA TRI/GHGRP, E-PRTR); hazardous-waste manifests for spent quench oil, salt bath… | Per site annual reported totals; per waste shipment manifest | public |
| pricing | Job shops' quoting systems; buyers' procurement teams; occasional benchmark surveys by MTI and industry press | Per quote (price per kg or per load, by process type), surcharge schedules… | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Operators (WIP of customer-owned parts, quench oil, alloy fixtures, nitrogen/hydrogen/methanol supply); industrial gas suppliers (Air… | Per lot in WIP; per tank per delivery | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Commercial heat treaters and captive in-house heat treat departments; furnace OEMs and controls vendors (Ipsen, SECO/WARWICK, Aichelin… | Per furnace load / per thermocouple, second-to-minute time series (temperature… | partnership |
| energy consumption | Heat treat operators; gas and electric utilities; national energy-audit schemes (e.g. EU EED audits, UK ESOS/SECR filings, US DOE… | Per site monthly billing; per furnace per load where sub-metered | partnership |
| logistics & freight movement | Operators' shipping records; regional LTL and dedicated milk-run carriers moving parts between machining shops and heat treaters | Per shipment / per pickup route | partnership |
| production output | Heat treaters' MES/ERP systems (e.g. DataProse, Heat Treat Suite, Zephyr, in-house); trade associations (MTI, ASM Heat Treating Society… | Per load/batch (weight, part count, cycle recipe); monthly tonnage per site… | partnership |
| maintenance & asset condition | Operators' CMMS; furnace OEM service organisations and refractory/retort suppliers; thermocouple and instrument calibration vendors | Per furnace asset, per service event / per calibration cycle | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Heat treaters' quality departments; Nadcap/PRI audit bodies; CQI-9 assessors for automotive customers; independent metallurgical labs… | Per load / per part lot certificate; per furnace per survey interval | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Commercial heat treat job shops' ERP/order systems; their OEM and forging/machining customers' purchasing systems | Per work order / per lot processed | exclusive |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Heat treat job shops' scheduling systems; captive plant production planning | Per furnace per shift (load slots filled, chamber capacity utilised), weekly… | 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.