The energy transition

The global energy transition is a complex but vital endeavour that will span decades, yet one ICIS believes is laden with opportunity. We are here to help our customers not just compete throughout the energy transition, but to thrive in it. And nowhere is the transition more visible than in power markets.

Increased complexity

The low-carbon revolution is driving rapid transformation across Europe’s power markets. The growth of renewable energy coupled with the phasing out of fossil-fuels and nuclear power means electricity prices are more volatile than ever. Rapid growth in cables connecting different markets means fundamental drivers in one region can strongly influence price movements in others; while the ever-increasing integration of gas, carbon and power adds another level of complexity.

Turning threat into opportunity

To turn the global energy transition from threat to opportunity means understanding and anticipating these complex price movements.

Having a holistic view that connects power markets is vital to optimise your resources. It is no longer enough to only follow the markets you actively trade. You also need to know what is happening across Europe and even further afield.

Facing challenges:

Making sense of the volatile and often opaque physical market drivers that impact the earnings of target companies can be challenging.

Accessing meaningful insights

Insight is skewed by unconscious biases. Subjective interpretations which can undermine the credibility of the models used to make investment decisions. This is especially the case with volatile and often opaque energy and chemicals markets, where investment risks are already high. Meaningful insight and commodity market pricing which generates excess return has never been harder.

The value of independent information

Understanding long-term market movements, calculating risk, and accurately advising your clients during periods of volatility is vital. By staying ahead of the competition, you can be the first to market with great ideas, help retain client loyalty and attract new customers. The need for accurate commodity market pricing, provocative and insightful analysis, immediate notification of critical industry news events and access to industry experts to sense-check your understanding against is critical to stay ahead and remain confident. Comparing recommendations with an independent source reduces the risk of biases influencing decisions. This provides an audit trail from the most trusted industry brands.

As a trusted energy and chemical Price Reporting Agency, ICIS commodity market pricing and prices reflect, or are referenced in, more price agreements and contracts in the global energy and chemical industries than any other price reporting agency. Therefore, ICIS brings financial analysts as close as possible to the real-world transactions which they need be on top of.

With ICIS’ commodity market pricing and supply & demand data from a global network of market experts, you can sanity check your research recommendations against hard data & forecasts.

Build security in a volatile market:

Our world is transforming, making it more crucial than ever for the chemical industry to adapt. As chemical markets shift quickly, there is a need to act decisively, strive for better, and make changes that drive a difference in the long-term. ICIS is committed to partnering with the industry to optimise the world’s resources, connecting the value chain and achieving efficient and sustainable growth for the chemical industry.

With expert analysts and specialists embedded in the most significant chemical markets globally, we deliver world-class intelligence derived from unparalleled industry relationships and deep expertise. We bring together interactive price reports, assessments and market outlooks with a unique market and customer lens. This empowers our partners to see further and adapt faster, anticipating and reacting to change effortlessly, so they can plan and transact more effectively.

Solutions

Economic, social, and material conditions can amplify market challenges in an instant, making tracking those changes and analysing their effects more important than ever. In fast moving chemical markets, we are leading with insight, delivering a comprehensive, transparent view across commodities, prices, trade flows and supply chains so that you can act with greater clarity and confidence.

Insight

ICIS Insight offers up to date news and resources on the global commodity markets, so you can make informed business decisions.

Analyse

ICIS consultants can provide detailed analysis and forecasting for commodity markets, helping you to build an informed and robust future for your business.

CDI

ICIS and CDI are helping to define the future of the chemicals industry together. Get ahead of increasingly volatile markets with trusted and relevant information in real time.

Margin analytics

Gain a clear view of commodity markets through our up-to-date interactive tool. See actionable data on variable costs and margins to help you benchmark performance and make better deals.

Price forecasts

Stay ahead of market trends and make informed decisions based on accurate data for specific commodities. Simplified in a single report and with an overview of the next 18 months.

Uncover what is driving polypropylene markets

With its unique properties and versatility, polypropylene is an invaluable global commodity, influencing key industries from packaging and automotive to electrical and household. Its ability to be manufactured into various end-uses such as plastic car parts and textiles has made polypropylene an essential market to understand and navigate. Even the slightest change can have the most significant impact. This is why our experts are embedded in markets across the globe, monitoring, tracking, and understanding developments affecting polypropylene so you can make the best decisions with the right information.

At ICIS, we uncover what exactly is driving polypropylene markets, bringing data and intelligence to the next level to enable you to better react with insight. We exist to bring you market clarity and transparency, delivering world-class intelligence on the marketplace from our unparalleled network of global experts.

Solutions

Stay ahead of the impact of crucial factors driving regional and global polypropylene markets with ICIS.

Insight

ICIS Insight offers up to date news and resources on the global commodity markets, so you can make informed business decisions.

Analyse

ICIS consultants can provide detailed analysis and forecasting for commodity markets, helping you to build an informed and robust future for your business.

CDI

ICIS and CDI are helping to define the future of the chemicals industry together. Get ahead of increasingly volatile markets with trusted and relevant information in real time.

S&D

Supply and Demand outlooks offer an informative overview of the various chemical markets, consolidated into an easy-to-use format.

Price drivers

Providing diagnostic insights to help monitor and maximise your sales opportunities. Interactive analytics help you assess trends to increase windows of opportunities.

Live disruptions tracker

A live global view of production and consumption capacity loss, plus associated conversion factors. These enable a clear understanding of supply impact in order to get ahead of market changes.

Margin analytics

Gain a clear view of commodity markets through our up-to-date interactive tool. See actionable data on variable costs and margins to help you benchmark performance and make better deals.

Price forecasts

Stay ahead of market trends and make informed decisions based on accurate data for specific commodities. Simplified in a single report and with an overview of the next 18 months.

Plant cost evaluator

Our Plant Cost Evaluator predicts individual fixed and variable cost elements for the current regional price, the global plant level worldwide and the calculated price floor/ceiling.

Supplier Carbon Footprints

Discover the CO2 emissions across chemical and plastics supply chain with comprehensive and reliable carbon footprint data for chemicals by region, plant and supplier.

Market volatility needs trusted data

From the packaging on our food to the paints in our homes, polyethylene surrounds us. It is essential to our daily lives. With countless applications in everyday materials, it is crucial for anyone with an active interest in the market to understand what is driving polyethylene markets. Adapting efficiently to the significant changes in how it is being produced and consumed around the world is key.

Now more than ever before, trusted market data and intelligent analytics can play a vital role in helping you make the best decisions to maximise polyethylene opportunities and minimise risk. At ICIS, this is what we do. We exist to make markets such as polyethylene more trusted, transparent, and predictable by delivering world-class commodity intelligence, derived from our unparalleled network of global experts.

Solutions

Present the services we offer to deliver on the opportunity or challenge of our customers. This will cover everything, including Events, Communities, etc.

Insight

Our informed insight offers a combination of news, market intelligence and expertise,

designed to help you gain commodity market advantages.

Analyse

Our analytics can help you to shape future strategies, minimise risk and maintain a

competitive advantage within commodity markets.

CDI

By combining the expertise of ICIS and CDI, our specialist insights can help you make

informed business decisions, ensuring a more sustainable future for your business and customers.

S&D

ICIS S&D outlooks provide fast and informative insights across all commodity markets, helping you to make informed business decisions from an easily accessible source.

Live disruptions tracker

A dynamic insight into the global disruptions impacting commodities. Continuously updated by market experts in key global regions, react quicker and with complete confidence.

Understand recycled polymer market drivers

Demand for recycled content, such as R-PET around the globe is on the up. Driven by building pressure to deliver more sustainable ways of living and reducing environmental impact, this trend shows no signs of abating.

Navigating what has become an increasingly volatile market is a challenge for new and experienced market players. Access to comprehensive and reliable recycled polymer market data is key.

To meet the needs of buyers, sellers and traders of R-PET, we have expanded our coverage to encompass Europe, Asia, the Americas and beyond. We are recognised as the benchmark price for recycled polymers, including R-PET. Our European historic price data shows developments since coverage began in 2006. This enables a clear view of how this market has evolved.

Solutions

In addition to our price assessments and comprehensive regional coverage, our global network of recycled plastics experts also cover analysis and forecasts, adding further depth and insight to our coverage. We also offer details of recyclers.

Insight

Insight provided by ICIS ensures that you receive the latest resources on specific commodity markets, including news and market intelligence to back your business decisions.

Analyse

Analyse the commodity markets to enable accurate market forecasts and competitive

advantage with our informative and interactive analytics tools.

Price forecasts

A detailed report of expected market trends over the next 18 months. Keep up to speed with shifts in the markets, including supply and demand, overall prices, margins and capacity.

Recycling supply tracker – Chemical

Covering 145 global projects, it is the world’s first interactive database with the ability to filter and download information

Recycling supply tracker – Mechanical

The Recycling Supply Tracker – Mechanical allows companies looking to source recycled plastic to quickly gain a comprehensive view of the sector

Get trusted data and insight

Construction, electronics, and healthcare are just a few of the industries that rely on this flexible yet unbreakable material. Playing a critical role in healthcare through the use of products such as medical tubing and IV bags, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is indispensable to modern day life, and global production volume amounted to 44.3 million metric tons in 2018. Understanding and engaging with such a significant market requires relevant and trusted data and insight.

With uncertainty around every corner, ICIS exists to provide clarity in complex markets such as PVC’s. This enables our partners to see and seize opportunities the moment they arise. Our network of expert analysts across the globe brings into focus the widest global viewpoint and geographical coverage of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), delivering world-class commodity intelligence. Trusted market data and analytics can transform the way you make decisions.

Solutions

Monitor shifts in demand, production, and other price drivers and understand how these developments influence the market with ICIS.

Insight

From our news service to our thought leadership content, ICIS experts bring you the latest news and insight, when you need it.

Analyse

Visualise, spot and optimise opportunities across changing markets with a unique combination of interactive analytics tools.

CDI

Together, ICIS and CDI provide the most comprehensive view of the global chemical market. Plan ahead with up-to-date insights informed by industry experts in response to the latest events as and when they happen

S&D

Quick access to in-depth data across the entire chemicals value chain in one single integrated and searchable source.

Price drivers

Understand how trends influence markets of commodities through a unique combination of interactive analytic tools. Monitor competition beyond your region to maximise margin potential.

Live disruptions tracker

A real-time view of global supply, including disruptions, to allow you to evaluate at a glance whether the market is long or short, mitigate risks and adjust pricing strategies accordingly.

Margin analytics

Assess future price movements, benchmark against competitors and set robust trading positions that protect your margins and sustain profitability. Enter negotiations with total confidence.

Price forecasts

Details of prices, margins, capacity, supply and demand for the next 18 months – all in a single report. Available across commodities, this simple format helps you understand the market quickly.

Supplier Carbon Footprints

Discover the CO2 emissions across chemical and plastics supply chain with comprehensive and reliable carbon footprint data for chemicals by region, plant and supplier.

A global view of ethylene key markets in Europe, the US and Asia

Ethylene markets can react to change quickly. It’s crucial for buyers, sellers and producers to stay alert and aware of what’s happening, both in their region and internationally. Unplanned cracker outages at major facilities can have a strong impact on regional and global ethylene markets. And polyethylene – the largest downstream sector for ethylene – is particularly sensitive to packaging demand shifts.

We help you stay abreast of change as it’s happening. We keep you informed of the current price and market position, so you can make the most of opportunities to trade or secure a deal. Our experience in the sector means that our prices are the leading benchmark in Asia and Europe. They are frequently used in contracts secured by major producers, traders and end users. We provide the detail you can trust to support your decisions.

Solutions

Our comprehensive news and pricing coverage of the global ethylene value chain is constantly updated by our international team of experts. We also offer robust petrochemical analytics tools, including a live disruptions tracker that tracks real-time capacity changes globally.

Insight

From our news service to our thought leadership content, ICIS experts bring you the latest news and insight, when you need it.

Analyse

Visualise, spot and optimise opportunities across changing markets with a unique combination of interactive analytics tools.

CDI

Together, ICIS and CDI provide the most comprehensive view of the global chemical market. Plan ahead with up-to-date insights informed by industry experts in response to the latest events as and when they happen

S&D

Quick access to in-depth data across the entire chemicals value chain in one single integrated and searchable source.

Price drivers

Understand how trends influence markets of commodities through a unique combination of interactive analytic tools. Monitor competition beyond your region to maximise margin potential.

Live disruptions tracker

A real-time view of global supply, including disruptions, to allow you to evaluate at a glance whether the market is long or short, mitigate risks and adjust pricing strategies accordingly.

Margin analytics

Assess future price movements, benchmark against competitors and set robust trading positions that protect your margins and sustain profitability. Enter negotiations with total confidence.

Price forecasts

Details of prices, margins, capacity, supply and demand for the next 18 months – all in a single report. Available across commodities, this simple format helps you understand the market quickly.

Plan cost evaluator

Visualise individual cost elements (both fixed and variable), at plant level worldwide, the current regional price and calculated price floor or ceiling.

Supplier Carbon Footprints

Discover the CO2 emissions across chemical and plastics supply chain with comprehensive and reliable carbon footprint data for chemicals by region, plant and supplier.

Gain a holistic view across emerging plastic waste feedstocks for the chemical and mechanical recycling and burn-for-energy sectors

The growth of the chemical recycling sector is redrawing the map of the mixed waste plastic market in Europe.

Mixed plastic waste grades are a key feedstock for chemical recyclers looking to avoid competition with mechanical recycling and utilise material that historically would have been incinerated, landfilled, or used in burn-for-energy applications. This potentially allows the circularity of a number of waste grade that were not previously recycled.

Nevertheless, it is a common misconception that chemical recycling can take any and all types of plastic waste, and there are still a number of technical requirements for waste input depending on which chemical recycling process is used.

Pyrolysis for example, typically requires the minimisation of chlorine content (typically to 0.1% or less) due to its corrosive effect, the removal of PET because it oxygenates the process and does not depolymerise using pyrolysis, and the avoidance of nylon and flame retardants.

At the same time, shortages and high prices of monomaterial recycled plastics have led waste managers and mechanical recyclers to explore the use of mixed plastic waste to make up shortfalls, particularly for non-packaging applications such as construction. Improvements in sorting technology are expected to widen the range of materials mechanical recyclers can utilise in the mid-term.

This is creating greater competition for mixed plastic waste and causing fundamental shifts in the Europe market place. Players are being forced to adapt at speed in what can often be an opaque and difficult to understand landscape.

The mixed plastic waste (Europe) service provides comprehensive pricing and market coverage of key feedstocks for the chemical recycling sector and emerging feedstock for mechanical recycling such as mixed polyolefins, high plastic content and high calorie content refuse derived fuel (RDF) bales and unsorted materials recovery facility (MRF) waste.

The service also includes comprehensive analysis of chemical and mechanical recycling markets, sorting and waste management, investment and macroeconomic trends, legislative and technology developments, pyrolysis oil, and the burn-for-energy sector.

All new and emerging markets are inherently volatile, doubly so when coupled to new technologies and complex supply chains serving multiple competing sectors. The mixed plastic waste pricing service sits alongside our mechanical and chemical recycling supply trackers to give you the actionable insights you need to adapt your strategy, minimise risk and position yourself at the forefront of these key developing market sectors.

ICIS has been covering recycled polymer and plastic waste markets since 2006 and holds multiple price benchmarks across the major recycled polymers of R-PET, R-PE and R-PP, as well as across virgin chemical markets. Our experience gives us the insight to properly contextualise and evaluate the latest market developments and industry trends in a trustworthy, timely and impartial manner.

Trade more effectively and invest strategically in energy

The energy transition is happening now. This makes it more crucial than ever for the industry to adapt, act decisively and make changes that drive a difference in the long-term.

ICIS is committed to partnering with the industry to optimise the world’s resources. This supports the transition to greener energy in a strategic and sustainable way.

With expert analysts embedded in key energy markets globally, we deliver world-class intelligence derived from unparalleled industry relationships and deep expertise. Merging interactive price reports, assessments and outlooks with a unique market and customer lens, we empower our partners to anticipate and respond to market changes fast. This way, they can plan, trade and invest more strategically.

Solutions

At ICIS, we deliver a comprehensive, transparent view of all energy commodities, prices, trade flows and supply chains, enabling you to act with greater clarity and confidence.

LNG pricing & insight

Get daily data-driven insight and expert analysis, designed to give a complete perspective of market conditions – historic, current and future.

LNG Edge

Access an integrated solution that brings together global spot price assessments and indices, a news alert service, deep-dive analysis and live cargo tracking.

LNG Edge supply & demand forecast

A month-by-month forward looking view and compare forecast adjustments as live events happen.

Pricing & commentary

Access independent, objective and trusted intelligence for the global energy market.

Carbon market analytics

Fuelled by reliable data sources to forecast the true market balance, make confident business decisions now.

Energy power analytics

Confidently support in-house modelling, investment assessments and strategy definition.

European daily electricity markets (EDEM)

Summarise key market drivers and gain insight into trends and outlooks for Europe’s major power markets.

The market leader in gas market intelligence

Changing regulations and infrastructure, supply (via pipeline and LNG vessels), fluctuating demand, and storage dynamics are all drivers of global gas markets. This presents a complex picture where a shift in one variable can impact prices or change key dynamics instantly. With so much to keep track of, it’s essential to have constant access to reliable information.

We were the first company to assess European gas markets and have continued to extend our coverage over the last 25 years. Our unwavering track record of delivering reliable price assessments, combined with our independent and transparent methodology, means that the majority of gas market participants use our data as the benchmark for the Title Transfer Facility (TTF), the most liquid gas hub in Europe, in the Netherlands.

As a result of increased interdependence between US LNG production, Europe and the LNG markets in Asia the TTF gas benchmark has become more interconnected as a global gas index.

We support your decision-making with data-led, forward-looking analysis, as well as regulatory and infrastructure updates to complete the picture.

Solutions

Our global analysis covers cover all European gas markets, as well as US gas fundamentals including the US Henry Hub futures market, US LNG exports, Asian gas demand markets and regional arbitrage opportunities. We also report intra-day and early evening closing price assessments with supporting market commentary for all major European gas hubs, production and supply fundamentals plus forward-thinking analysis of wholesale gas market trends.

Pricing & commentary

Access independent, objective and trusted intelligence for the global energy market.

​New Price Assessment: ICIS TTF Early Day

With the new ICIS TTF Early Day, Asian market participants can now trade with the same assurance and on the same terms as their European peers.​ Speak to an ICIS expert to learn more.

A key transition fuel for the new energy landscape

As LNG trade and markets become increasingly global, the impact of developments in any one region can ripple through others with greater influence than before. To navigate the growing uncertainties and identify opportunities in this increasingly volatile, complex and interconnected global gas market, benefit from complete intelligence to form a complete perspective of historic, current, and future market conditions.

As the integrated energy experts, ICIS empowers all participants to effectively navigate market complexity with a range of trusted European gas price benchmarks including the ICIS TTF, forward looking forecasts, exclusive news, and powerful analytics.

Together we can develop a holistic view of the challenges – and many opportunities – that the energy transition brings to the LNG industry.

Solutions

ICIS gives you the intelligence you need to confidently identify opportunities, mitigate risk and invest strategically.

Access your intelligence seamlessly through ICIS Digital, our critical hub for expert insight.

LNG pricing, news & insight

Get daily data-driven insight and expert analysis. Access the news as it happens. Gain a complete perspective of market conditions – historic, current and future.

German LNG price assessment

First on the market daily price assessment for the German LNG market built on ICIS’ proven methodology and pricing expertise to support business decisions on both sell and buy side.

LNG Edge

Access an integrated solution that brings together global spot price assessments and indices, a news alert service, deep-dive analysis and live cargo tracking.

LNG Edge supply & demand forecast

A month-by-month forward-looking view. Compare forecast adjustments as live events happen.

LNG analytics API

The seamless integration of premium LNG Edge data delivered in real time to existing datasets providing timely vessel tracking. A depth of data right at your fingertips.

New price assessment: ICIS TTF Early Day

With the new ICIS TTF Early Day, Asian market participants can now trade with the same assurance and on the same terms as their European peers.​ Speak to an ICIS expert to learn more.

Trusted data to back-up your decisions

Clean hydrogen provides a solution for difficult-to-decarbonise sectors, but it must overcome significant investment and coordination challenges in order to contribute to net zero emissions. Accurate pricing data and information are essential to navigating the way to a traded hydrogen market and will be critical for market participants to achieve long-term success. A thorough understanding of the gas, power and chemical industries, with a focus on ammonia, is required. ICIS supports your decisions with data-driven, unique forward-looking analysis driven from the foundation of the ICIS TTF gas benchmark, allowing confident trading and investment.

Why use hydrogen pricing & insight?

• Strategically plan, trade and invest based on benchmark prices 
• Navigate uncertainties with greater clarity and confidence 
• Conduct evidence-based negotiations and mitigate potential risk 
• Anticipate and respond to market volatility

Reacting to capacity changes and demand shifts.

The base oils market is sensitive to downstream demand for automobiles and fuel. Upstream vacuum gas oil (VGO) and crude values are a secondary price driver.

A global demand shift from Group I to Groups II and III has led to rationalisation of capacity and increased reliance for wax on China. The use of electric vehicles is reducing demand for passenger car motor oils (PCMO). Global capacity of base oils generally exceeds demand, but supply chains can be impacted by fuel prices, cargo capacity, transportation costs, weather and natural disasters, and trade barriers. Failure of one or two production plants can affect global availability.

ICIS base oils reports are available for the Americas, North Asia, Southeast Asia (including India), and Middle East and Europe (including Russia/Baltic), and P-Wax reports are available for Asia-Pacific region, Europe, and the USA.

These reports analyse actual price levels, place market trends in a historical context and include a summary outlook. Available analytics tools include the ICIS Live Disruption Tracker and Price Optimisation Analytics. Comprehensive market intelligence and forecasts enables you to make profitable decisions.

Solutions

ICIS offers actionable market news in real time for base oils and P-Wax, including scheduled/unscheduled supply interruptions. Our transparent methodology is built on comprehensive market input from buyers, sellers, and distributors.

S&D

Supply and Demand outlooks offer an informative overview of the various chemical markets, consolidated into an easy-to-use format.

Price drivers

Providing diagnostic insights to help monitor and maximise your sales opportunities. Interactive analytics help you assess trends to increase windows of opportunities.

Live disruptions tracker

A live global view of production and consumption capacity loss, plus associated conversion factors. These enable a clear understanding of supply impact in order to get ahead of market changes.

Analyse

Our analytics can help you to shape future strategies, minimise risk and maintain a

competitive advantage within commodity markets.

Understand the outlook for Crude Oil

The low-carbon transition is driving rapid change across global energy systems. Economies will bounce back after the early 2020s pandemic, fuelling demand for energy while oil remains an important part of the supply mix. This offers oil companies a foundation for investment, creating an opportunity to not just survive the transformation – but to thrive in it.

The oil sector must invest and adapt to decarbonisation. Refineries can convert into renewable plants, making biodiesel or biojet fuel. ICIS predictive analytics can help you decide when this would make commercial sense.

The future is bright for oil if companies adapt to crude oil and the changing landscape. As the integrated energy experts, ICIS is your partner, guiding you through the transition with trusted pricing data, predictive analytics, exclusive news and insight. Together we can develop a holistic view of the challenges – and many opportunities – that lie ahead.

Solutions

ICIS has been a trusted independent source of global energy market intelligence for over three decades. Our crude oil team based across the globe’s key oil regions collates, data from a wide range of market participants daily.

Insight

From our news service to our thought leadership content, ICIS experts bring you the latest news and insight, when you need it.

CDI

Together, ICIS and CDI provide the most comprehensive view of the global chemical market. Plan ahead with up-to-date insights informed by industry experts in response to the latest events as and when they happen

Globalization is impacting Fertilizers markets. Fertilizer commodities covered: ammonia, nitrogen, phosphates, potash, and sulphur.

In today’s challenging times, when demand for fertilizers is growing at a slower rate than supply, fertilizer and chemical companies need to remain competitive and adopt a strategy of price excellence in order to emerge strong and stable.

With ICIS, you can instantly benefit from decades of insights and expertise in the upstream and downstream petrochemical markets, for a holistic integrated view of the global fertilizers market.

2020 Global Fertilizer Trade Flow Map in partnership with IFA

This interactive map provides a geographical picture of fertilizer product trade flows between major producing and importing countries around the world, as well as production and consumption date.

Improving market transparency

A key building block for fertilisers and other manufactured chemicals. In order to leverage market opportunities and avoid missing out, participants across the chemicals supply chain must keep track of vast volumes of data and providing expert analytics. This includes market movements and interdependencies, not only for ammonia, but for other crop nutrients and related chemicals markets too. Staying abreast of so much information is difficult without a trusted market intelligence and accurate forecasting.

To meet this broad spectrum of needs, we engage closely with producers, buyers and traders throughout the supply chain and across several continents. Working independently, we collate and constantly update a comprehensive view of ammonia price movements and supply and demand drivers. Timely insights and accurate data enable a fast, confident and decisive response from market players around the globe.

Solutions

Our market editors closely monitor international markets. This includes covering spot deals, production issues, pricing trends, market news and fundamentals, plus the latest trade deals, bids and offers in each region. This creates a complete picture, empowering a confident standpoint for daily decision-making.

Insight

From our news service to our thought leadership content, ICIS experts bring you the latest news and insight, when you need it.

S&D

Quick access to in-depth data across the entire chemicals value chain in one single integrated and searchable source.

Customised solutions

Our global ICIS consulting team, with its diverse background of experienced consultants, capitalise on ICIS trusted independent market analysis and extensive industry experience to offer a confidential, bespoke single client service; delivering customised solutions to address specific challenges.

Real industry experts

Our global consultants are industry experts with an average over 20 years’ of experience. This expanse of knowledge, combined with ICIS advanced long term price forecasting and business modelling methodology, has provided a solid foundation for ICIS to be appointed to undertake lender market advisory roles in multibillion dollar projects.

How we can help you

Our robust, fully integrated, long-term price forecasting and business modelling methodology covers all elements of the supply chain, from feedstocks to end-products. This provides manufacturing businesses with a powerful tool to make sound strategic investment decisions. It is widely used by multinational companies as an independent verification of their own internal analysis. Joining this capability with the experience of the ICIS Consulting team delivers proven results.

Integrated energy experts

ICIS can evaluate energy sources holistically to make sense of markets across multiple touchpoints. So, as markets move towards more sustainable operating models, our expert consultants can help you meet your objectives and optimise the value derived from the transition to greener energy resources.

Plastics circularity

Our consultants around the world help customers navigate immature and emerging markets and work with industry associations and individual companies in mechanical and recycling sectors. We can help you understand the priorities, possibilities and realities of emerging sustainability trends and technologies that consumers are increasingly demanding.

Why choose ICIS

Whilst our product expert analysts and market specialists track, interpret and translate market developments for customers, the global consulting team, with its diverse background of experienced consultants, provides in depth analysis of all this information offering a confidential, bespoke single client service to deliver customised solutions to address specific problems.

Supporting you through the entire budgeting process. From historical analysis to long-term forecasting, helping your organisation remain competitive, efficient, and profitable.

Whether benchmarking performance, adopting new delivery models or planning a specific project, ICIS consulting can provide the strategic direction to strengthen your business case.

Our consultant’s industry knowledge, coupled with our wealth of market data, makes ICIS consulting uniquely placed to offer crucial insight into specialised markets. This allows you to anticipate fluctuations and proactively position your business response.

Valuations, cost modelling, efficiency evaluation and capital and resource planning. When making major changes to your current business, ICIS consulting offers the guidance and practical support needed for a smooth transition with minimal risk.

Hitting sustainability targets

The outlook for the sustainability agenda is complex. Between EU directives and legislative changes, brand pledges and targets, the ambitions and promises are vast.

ICIS brings much needed transparency on sustainability by providing data and insight on the factors driving prices of recycled plastics, as well as carbon footprint data. With supply of recycled raw material under pressure, we work with key market players to provide independent and trusted insights on availability of products in the light of growing demand.

By bringing clarity to recycled plastics markets and carbon footprint data, we help companies spot opportunities for collaboration, innovation and adoption of new technologies. Our market intelligence empowers companies so they can make forward-looking decisions that help them manage and deliver on their sustainability goals with confidence.

Reframing the future

At ICIS, we have spent the last four decades helping the petrochemical, energy and fertilizer markets make decisions that matter. Driving actions that optimise profit, resources and operational effectiveness with sustainability in mind. Our intelligence connects key players, enables innovation and helps you see what is coming, so you know where to invest and where to transform. There are many reasons why we are the most trusted source of independent commodity intelligence services. But mostly, it’s our commitment to connecting global markets to optimise the world’s resources, now and in the future.

We are ICIS and we are reframing the future.

Bringing supply chain carbon footprint data to the global chemical industry

With customers, shareholders, and regulators all pushing towards a more sustainable future, it’s never been more important to have reliable, consistent, and comprehensive data on the carbon footprint of the chemical and plastics supply chain.

Combining ICIS’ deep understanding of chemical markets with ground-breaking carbon footprint data from Carbon Minds, lifecycle data providers, companies can now visualise carbon footprint data across supply chains, down to supplier level, helping to identify carbon emission hotspots, as well as opportunities for their reduction.

Solutions

In addition to our price assessments and comprehensive regional coverage, our global network of recycled plastics experts also cover analysis and forecasts, adding further depth and insight to our coverage. We also offer details of recyclers.

Recycling supply tracker – Chemical

Covering 145 global projects, it is the world’s first interactive database with the ability to filter and download information.

Recycling supply tracker – Mechanical

The Recycling Supply Tracker – Mechanical allows companies looking to source recycled plastic to quickly gain a comprehensive view of the sector.

R-PE Pricing Intelligence

For full visibility on recycled polyethylene (R-PE) price movements get a complete view of the R-HDPE and R-LDPE markets through accessing our R-PE price intelligence service.

Supplier Carbon Footprints

Discover the CO2 emissions across chemical and plastics supply chain with comprehensive and reliable carbon footprint data for chemicals by region, plant and supplier.

Navigating change

In opaque markets characterised by price volatility, it is challenging to know the fair price for a commodity.

Solutions

Save money

Raw material price forecasts produced by highly experienced industry experts with in-depth knowledge of the plastics packaging markets and all relevant market players, built using state of the art modelling techniques that are unbiased, balanced and reliable.

Minimise negotiating

Raw materials prices are inherently volatile, which means costs and profits are uncertain. Indexing procurement and sales contracts to the same index locks in margins, allowing plastic converters and their customers to define profitability for the term of the contract.

Lock in profits of plastic converters

Present the services we offer to deliver on the opportunity or challenge of our customers.

Build trusted relationships with your supplier/customer