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 | National business registers; environmental permit authorities (IED/IPPC permits for surface treatment, pickling lines); fire/chemical… | Per legal entity / per site permit | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices (SBS employment by NACE class); labour inspectorates; works councils and sector unions; plant HR systems | Annual per NACE class per region; headcount and shift rosters per site… | public |
| financial filings | National company registers and aggregators (Orbis/Bureau van Dijk, Creditsafe, Companies House-type registries); listed players (Bekaert… | Annual (some quarterly) per legal entity, with segment revenue | public |
| incident/safety/claims | National occupational safety regulators (OSHA in US, national labour inspectorates in EU); insurers; Eurostat ESAW accident statistics | Per reportable incident per establishment; annual rates by NACE class | public |
| waste & emissions | Environmental regulators (E-PRTR / EU Industrial Emissions Portal, national permit registers), plants' own environmental reporting… | Per facility per year (pollutant releases, waste transfers) | public |
| production output | Manufacturers' ERP/MES systems; national statistical offices (Eurostat PRODCOM, national industrial production surveys); trade associations… | Per production order/line/shift internally; monthly or annual product-level… | public |
| pricing | Steel wire rod and wire price reporting agencies (Fastmarkets, Argus, SteelOrbis, Kallanish); manufacturers' quotation systems; distributor… | Weekly/monthly price assessments per product grade and region; per-quote… | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Customs authorities and trade-data vendors (Eurostat Comext, UN Comtrade, Panjiva/ImportGenius bills of lading); freight forwarders | Per HS code per country-pair per month; per shipment in bill-of-lading data | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Manufacturers (wire rod coil stock, WIP, finished goods); steel service centres and distributors; anti-dumping case files listing… | Per SKU per warehouse, daily/weekly | partnership |
| energy consumption | Plants (electricity for drawing, annealing, galvanising furnaces); grid operators and suppliers; EU ETS / national energy-audit reporting… | Per site half-hourly meter data; annual per-site in regulatory reporting | partnership |
| communications/marketing performance | Manufacturers' web/CRM analytics; industrial B2B platforms and directories (ThomasNet, Europages, IndustryStock) tracking RFQ and listing… | Per listing/per RFQ, monthly | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Manufacturers' QA labs (tensile, torsion, fatigue, coating weight tests); notified bodies and certification registries (ISO 9001/IATF… | Per heat/coil/batch test certificate (EN 10204 3.1); per certificate in… | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Individual manufacturers and their distributors (ERP order books); B2B marketplaces and industrial distributors (e.g. fastener/spring… | Per order line / per customer | exclusive |
| sensor/IoT | Manufacturers operating wire drawing machines, coilers, spring coiling and CNC bending machines; machine OEMs (Wafios, Numalliance, Bekaert… | Per machine, sub-second to per-cycle time series | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Plant maintenance/CMMS systems; machine OEM service organisations; die and tooling suppliers | Per asset per work order | 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.