Plastics Global

ICIS has a wealth of information on the plastics markets, from feedstocks to derivatives, which you can access to help you evaluate opportunities and competition from a global and regional perspective.

Products we publish include:

World Plastics Annual Study - a complete and comprehensive review of the global plastics industry. The study covers all major thermoplastics commodities, with analysis and information presented by commodity and region. It provides historical data from 2000 and forecasts up to 2025, giving you a view of future global demand and supply, capacity and trades. Access to this information lets you identify areas of growth, opportunities for business expansion and sources of competition in the medium to long term.

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Global Supply & Demand (S&D) database – an online database service which combines fully-reconciled S&D, capacity, trade and production ownership data to give you multiple views of the marketplace. It enables you to search, shape and export historical and projected global data, giving you the insight you need to plan ahead with accuracy.

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Pricing information – regional price assessments and market analysis on upstream and downstream products, which are published on a daily and/or weekly basis. Our intelligence enables you to understand price drivers and fluctuations, and offers benchmarks for settling your contract prices. Historical pricing data is also available which you can incorporate into your own analytical models to guide you in forecasting.

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ICIS price assessments are based on information gathered from a wide cross-section of the market, comprising consumers, producers, traders and distributors from more than 250 reporters world-wide.  Confirmed deals, verified by both buyer and seller, provide the foundation of our price assessments.

Our in-depth market knowledge drives our specialist focus, as we recognise the importance of individual market dynamics and not a one-size-fits-all approach.

Over 25 years of reporting on key chemicals markets, including Plastics, has brought global recognition of our methodology as being unbiased, authoritative and rigorous in preserving our editorial integrity.  Our global network of reporters in Houston, London, Singapore, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Mumbai, Perth and Moscow ensures unrivalled coverage of established and emerging markets.