Energy Price Monitor Changes (Dec 2022)

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

Specialty Price Trends - Changes for Subscribers (Dec 2022)

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:

Access Now

Access After

"Petrochemicals"

“Olefins & Derivatives”

"Aromatics & Derivatives"

“Alcohols & Organic Acids”

"Fertilizers & Gases”

"Polymers & Recyclables"

"Polymers"

"Inorganics"

"Inorganic Chemicals"

"Fertilizers & Gases"

"Fertilizers & Gases"

"Metals & Mining"

“Metals & Mining”

  • 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

Specialty Price Trends - Improvements (Dec 2022)

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

Main changes in Specialty Price Trends are summarized below:

  • Specialty Price Trends will become COMMODITY PRICE INDEXES
  • Huge addition of 237 commodities to the data coverage
  • Commodity Price Indexes methodology will have a great enhancement. In this manner, you'll have more accurate and reliable data to assess price behaviors
  • Commodities will be reorganized in industries as shown in the table below:

    Industry

    Commodities

    “Olefins & Derivatives”

    57

    "Aromatics & Derivatives"

    48

    “Alcohols & Organic Acids”

    62

    "Polymers"

    57

    "Inorganic Chemicals"

    66

    "Fertilizers & Gases"

    41

    "Metals & Mining"

    43

    "Food & Nutrition"

    16


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

•    December 2022 Specialty Price Trends Changes

Commodity Price Database - Changes for Subscribers (Dec 2022)

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: 

Access Now

Access After

"Petrochemicals"

“Olefins & Derivatives”

"Aromatics & Derivatives"

“Alcohols & Organic Acids”

"Fertilizers & Gases”

"Polymers & Recyclables "

"Polymers"

"Inorganics "

"Inorganic Chemicals"

"Fertilizers & Gases"

"Fertilizers & Gases"

"Nutrition & Renewables "

“Food & Nutrition”

"Metals & Mining "

“Metals & Mining”

  • 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

Commodity Price Database - Improvements (Dec 2022)

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

Main changes in Commodity Price Database are summarized below:

  • Commodity Price Database will become COMMODITY PRICE BENCKMARKS
  • Great addition of commodities
  • Commodities will be reorganized in industries as shown in the table below: 

Industry

Commodities

“Olefins & Derivatives”

29

"Aromatics & Derivatives"

34

“Alcohols & Organic Acids”

33

"Polymers"

41

"Inorganic Chemicals"

43

"Fertilizers & Gases"

31

"Food & Nutrition"

15

"Metals & Mining"

34


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

•   December 2022 Commodity Price Database Changes

Coming Soon: Commodity Price Database Improvements

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!

Coming Soon: Specialty Price Trends Improvements

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!

Coming Soon: Energy Price Monitor Improvements

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!

Contact Channels & Help Center Improvements

While we highly value our customers, aiming to better attend them we have just made several improvements in our contact channels.  Now, through a well-structured and yet concise contact form, customers can reach out to us in a faster and more objective manner and get answers from our team more quickly.

Also, we restructured and increased our Help Center, so that customers can more easily find answers to questions they may have about our offerings.

Methodology Improvements & Data Update Schedule

After weeks reformulating Intratec data gathering/processing routines, we are proud to announce improvements in Intratec methodology!

From now on, Intratec data updates will be sooner: instead of receiving data in the second or third week of any given month, you will now receive data until the end of the first week of each month.

Also, subscribers can now check our new Data Update Schedule - this schedule details, for the upcoming 12 months, when the data will be collected, processed and, most importantly, published.

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