Intratec is always looking for ways to deliver better value to customers.  In this context, the company will be streamlining its product portfolio in order to create a more focused lineup.

More specifically, Intratec Commodity Price Trends will be phased out by the end of July, 2023.  This strategic move will allow us to concentrate efforts and implement several improvements on Intratec Primary Commodity Prices in the coming months, including:

• More accurate pricing data

• Better pricing data description

• Earlier data updates

• Data delivery via API

• New, enriched data presentation format

These changes will address common requests from our customers and improve overall user experience.  Stay tuned!

This report presents an up-to-date, detailed cost analysis of Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) production from p-xylene. The process examined is a conventional catalytic oxidation process. In this process, p-xylene is oxidized to Terephthalic Acid. The Terephthalic Acid from reaction passes through separation and drying steps and Crude Terephthalic Acid (CTA) is obtained as an intermediate. Subsequently, the CTA is subjected to purification via hydrogenation and PTA is obtained as the final product.

You can check now more information about this report and also search in the library available at Intratec website (www.intratec.us) for reports focused on other industrial products.  Our Commodity Production Costs Reports provide up-to-date analysis of capital and operating costs.

We at Intratec are constantly looking for ways to improve our products. From this perspective, we highly value feedback from our customers, as potential opportunities for further improvements.

In this context, some of the feedbacks we have received over the past weeks have led us to the conclusion that we could better describe two of our products.

More specifically, to better reflect the data provided and to leave less room for misunderstandings, on January 31st we rebranded their names as follows:

- Intratec Commodity Price Benchmarks is now called INTRATEC PRIMARY COMMODITY PRICES
- Intratec Commodity Price Indexes is now called INTRATEC COMMODITY PRICE TRENDS

No other changes have been made to these products -- their coverages, content and features are the same.

On December 7th, improvements and changes were rolled out in Energy Price Monitor at no additional cost for active subscribers, related to data coverage and product rebrand. Main changes are described below:

- Energy Price Monitor is called now INTRATEC ENERGY PRICE REFERENCES
- Petroleum Coke was added to this product, which covers now 13 key energy commodity prices

Changes will be rolling out in Specialty Price Trends, on December 7th, related to calculation method, data coverage and product rebrand.

Key changes in the subscriptions are summarized below:

• Specialty Price Trends will become COMMODITY PRICE INDEXES

• The world regions were redivided and some were renamed. The new regions are the following: Americas, West Europe, Central & North Europe, East Europe & North Asia, Southeast Asia & Oceania and Africa & Middle East

• Active subscribers of industry “Petrochemicals” will have access to “Olefins & Derivatives”, "Aromatics & Derivatives” and “Alcohols & Organic Acids”

• Industries “Inorganics” and “Polymers & Recyclables” will be renamed to “Inorganic Chemicals”and “Polymers”, respectively.
  The main differences can be seen in the table:

• Historical data of price indexes will be recalculated as the methodology was completely reviewed.

You can find detailed descriptions of improvements and changes in the link below:

• December 2022 Specialty Price Trends Changes

Changes will be rolling out in Commodity Price Database, on December 7th, related to data coverage and product rebrand.

Key changes in the subscriptions are summarized below:

• Commodity Price Database will become COMMODITY PRICE BENCKMARKS

• Active subscribers of industry “Petrochemicals” will be granted access to industries “Olefins & Derivatives”, "Aromatics & Derivatives”, “Alcohols & Organic Acids” and "Fertilizers & Gases".

• Industries “Inorganics”, “Nutrition and Renewables” and “Polymers & Recyclables” will be renamed to “Inorganic Chemicals”, “Food & Nutrition” and “Polymers”, respectively.
  The main differences can be seen in the table: 

• Active subscribers of industries “Inorganics” and “Polymers & Recyclables” will also have access to product Commodity Price Indexes (same industries)

You can find detailed descriptions of improvements and changes in the link below:

•    December 2022 Commodity Price Database Changes

We are glad to inform that Intratec will deploy, by the beginning of December, great improvements in Commodity Price Database, involving:
- Product rebranding: Commodity Price Database will become COMMODITY PRICE BENCHMARKS
- Addition of more commodities - Better data organization

There will be minor changes on how some specific data are accessed, but do not worry - everything will be thoroughly explained until the launch. Stay tuned!

We are glad to inform that Intratec will deploy, by the beginning of December, great improvements in Specialty Price Trends, involving:
- Product rebranding: Specialty Price Trends will become COMMODITY PRICE INDEXES
- Addition of more commodities
- Enhanced methodology, leading to more accurate data series
- Better data organization

There will be minor changes on how some specific data are accessed, but do not worry - everything will be thoroughly explained until the launch. Stay tuned!

We are glad to inform that Intratec will deploy, by the beginning of December, some improvements in Energy Price Monitor, involving:
- Product rebranding: Energy Price Monitor will become ENERGY PRICE REFERENCES
- Addition of one more commodity

There will be minor changes on how some specific data are accessed, but do not worry - everything will be thoroughly explained until the launch. Stay tuned!