Margin

ICIS pricing margin reports

ICIS pricing’s weekly margin reports are designed to complement ICIS's highly regarded pricing data. They assess producer cash costs and cash margins by modelling raw material and key variable manufacturing costs, co-product credits and product yields across the business from feedstock naphtha and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) through to polyethylene.

Combining ICIS pricing’s benchmark price assessments with feedstock yield models from Linde Engineering the reports provide a clear indication of the direction of business cash costs and cash margins, forming a basis for informed market positioning by sellers, buyers and traders.

ICIS pricing’s margin reports portfolio includes:

Ethylene Asia

Ethylene Europe

Polyethylene Asia

Polyethylene Europe

ICIS pricing’s margin reports provide:

·          A consistent and incisive view of how the volatile business environment is really affecting business margins and decisions

·          A clear indication of the direction of business cash costs and cash margins, providing a basis for informed market positioning

·          Data tables and charts with summaries, giving a clear indication of both short and long-term trends

ICIS pricing already provides benchmark price assessments for ethylene and polyethylene purchasing contracts concluded between some of the largest suppliers and purchasers in the world. There’s widespread recognition of the importance of the accurate, independent and unbiased intelligence supplied by ICIS pricing reports. All the most competitive companies use our market intelligence to make better-informed business decisions.

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Ethylene Europe

Ethylene Asia
Polyethylene Europe
Polyethylene Asia

Our customer's feedback:

ICIS pricing Polyethylene Margin report provides concise commentary and useful data tables and charts, giving a clear indication of what's happening in the polymers market. The precise and regularly updated measurement of producer cash costs and cash margins allow us to track the market movements and is useful in our negotiations with suppliers.

Mr. Changsheng Wu, Global Procurement Director - Flexibles
Unilever Asia Private Ltd

To understand the margin and cost curve analysis behind the ethylene and polyethylene markets and the methodology of our data collection, click on the link to view and listen to the archived version of the presentation.

8 October 2009
Understanding Ethylene margins - how can you make better-informed business decisions?

26 October 2009
Understanding Polyethylene margins - how can you make better-informed business decisions?