Key benefits

•  Get a global perspective of supply and demand that affects your bottom line
•  Understand causes for recent market developments through easy-to-read charts, tables, and expert insight
•  See how alternative feedstocks such as soybean oil play a role in your business
•  Establish a fair and representative market price for contract negotiations and shore up contracts to avoid renegotiation/default
•  Maintain security of supply
•  Improve operational control and reduce costs
•  Evaluate arbitrages and risks
•  Assess whether alternative strategies offer greater margins
•  Search for alternate sources of material or product substitutions
•  Confirm news about the market, supply, participants, and dynamics
•  Monitor trade flows, shippers, ports, and volume with a 5-day lag using our ground-breaking Trade Monitor bill of lading analysis (add-on)
•  Rely on experienced and respected Argus experts to help you stay competitive in the global pine chemicals market

Key features

•  Fortnightly coverage of global pine chemicals markets
•  Global and regional pricing insight
•  Contract and spot prices for China, the Americas, Europe, and Brazil
•  Extensive feedstock analysis
•  Trade, legislative, and market trend analysis
•  Information on oleochemical plants located around the world
  

Global markets covered

•  Pine oleoresin
•  Gum rosin and gum turpentine
•  Rosin esters
•  C5 hydrocarbon resins
•  Tall oil fatty acid (TOFA)
•  Crude tall oil (CTO)
•  C18:1 oleic acids
  

Customers that benefit

•  Commercial Managers: optimize brand awareness and business value with a go-to-market strategy using in-depth insight to better evaluate product pricing, margins, feedstock, and delivery costs
•  Analysts: get an in-depth global and regional view on pricing insight including trade analysis
•  Procurement: reduce your costs, ensure the security of supply, and confidently forecast short- and long-term price trends
•  Traders: identify arbitrage and trade opportunities with regional analysis, independent price data, expert market insight, and a complete view across the pine chemicals supply chain