Use cases
Trade, invest and finance on physical facts.
Traders, merchants & producers
See slowdowns and ramp-ups at the plants you buy from, sell to or compete with — before a delivery slips.
- Utilisation on the plants you buy from, sell against and compete with
- Alerts on sustained slowdowns, restarts and ramp-ups
- Producers: benchmark your own plants against peers, on one independent method
- CBAM: independent CO₂ estimates per supplier plant, to anticipate the carbon cost of your imports
Site detail · production, furnaces, alerts
Hedge funds
The official supply signal, weeks earlier — with a history you can audit yourself.
- Point-in-time vintages since January 2020, revisions appended rather than overwritten
- Plant, group, country and region series, with the confidence band as a field
- Delivered by API, ready for your own walk-forward tests
China · activity vs capacity, site by site
Banks: research, derivatives & ESG
Independent production and emissions data on the producers you cover, hedge and finance.
- Research: group output built bottom-up from plants, comparable against guidance and citable in your notes
- Derivatives: a supply read by country and site to position and hedge your books
- ESG: CO₂ intensity per site for financed emissions, based on physical activity
Analytics · corporate panels with confidence bands
Data providers & PRAs
You keep the client relationship and distribution. We bring plant-level data your competitors don't have.
- Licensed with attribution, alongside your price and market expertise
- Integrate a new dataset into your price assessment models
- Enrich your news and reports with physical insights
API · delivery into your pipeline
Public institutions
Independent data on industrial activity and emissions, to inform public policy.
- Country and regional series on industrial output, ahead of official statistics
- A consistent method across plants and countries
- Already used in public-policy research projects