Chemical Economics Handbook®

Market & Business Research

Chemical professionals look to the Chemical Economics Handbook to stay informed about the chemical industry and its manifold relationships with the larger international marketplace. Our consultants conduct global studies, ensuring the information is timely, accurate and objective via verification with independent sources and industry review. Clients will find five-year outlooks and extensive market data on over 300 industrial chemicals, including:

• Petrochemical feedstocks
• Organic intermediates
• Plastics
• Resins
• Surface coatings
• Elastomers
• Fibers
• Agricultural and inorganic commodities
• Industrial gases

Concepts covered:

• Summary: global supply/demand for individual chemicals or groups of chemicals, future growth with five-year projections and historical data
• Demand: analysis and forecasts, including market size, end-use applications, consumption trends and competing materials
• Supply: producers, plant locations, capacities, capacity utilization, production volumes
• Process: commercial manufacturing processes involved and basic chemistry used
• Prices: histories, unit sale volumes and factors affecting prices
• Trade: import/export data, including countries of origin and destination and shipment values

While reports may be purchased individually, full subscriptions to CEH include:

• Access to the IHS Chemical CEH website (formerly SRI Consulting CEH website)--updated monthly, searchable and simultaneously accessible by all subscribed users
• Access to IHS Chemical experts for explanation and support to understand the analysis 
• Access to the regular releases of two supplemental datasets to the CEH:
  • IHS Chemical Manual of Current Indicators (MCI) (formerly SRI Consulting Manual of Current Indicators)
  • IHS Chemical Economic Environment of the Chemical Industry (EECI) (formerly SRI Consulting Economic Environment of the Chemical Industry)  

The Chemical Economics Handbook enables you to:

• Save company time and resources by obtaining information from a single source that is unrivaled in its coverage, comprehensiveness and quality of data
• Rest assured that you are relying upon independent, unbiased analyses
• Find market-by-market analysis of forces influencing current and future product demand
• Access extensive databases and personal contacts within the global chemical industry
• Purchase an annual subscription to the entire collection or buy single reports by chemical/product group
• Use our inquiry service (for full subscriptions only) to find answers quickly to specific immediate questions

CEH Reports Scheduled for 2013

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