About Margin Analytics

Make sense of business cash costs and cash margins

ICIS pricing’s weekly margin analytics are designed to complement ICIS’ 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, such as naphtha, through olefin to polymers, including polyethylene and polypropylene.

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 analytics provide:

A consistent and incisive view of how the volatile business environment is really affecting margins and decisions, a clear indication of the direction of business cash costs and cash margins, providing a basis for informed market positioning and data tables and charts with summaries, giving a clear indication of both short and long-term trends

ICIS pricing’s margin analytics portfolio includes:

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What our customers say about the margin analytics


“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..”

Unilever Asia Private Ltd

Mr. Changsheng Wu, Global Procurement Director – Flexibles