Chemicals Market Data
The numbers you need to gauge markets, ready to seize opportunities as the markets move.
See the Value Across Chemical Value Chains
With the global chemicals market growing, understanding supply and demand, raw material costs, and market competition is key to staying ahead. Our detailed price assessments offer transparent data empowering businesses to make smarter decisions. As a leader in recycled plastics coverage, we deliver essential data to support sustainability goals and drive circular economy efforts.
Our extensive global coverage includes over 2,000 price assessments across more than 60 chemical markets, from aromatics and blendstocks to olefins, polymers, recycled plastics, methanol, solvents, and intermediaries. We also offer data to track prices across value chains, helping you stay competitive at every stage.
S&P Global Commodity Insights Chemicals Market Data
Our Impact, by the Numbers
600,000+
Metric ton of physical cargoes traded on Chemicals eWindow in Q1 2024
70+
New Downstream Assessments
#1
Coverage of Global Recycled Plastics
1,000+
Physical Price Assessments globally across the chemicals value chain
Product Features
Monitor dynamic commodity markets with extensive price data, so you can confidently negotiate contracts, manage risk and develop your trade and investment strategies.
Professionals across the industry trust our data every day.
Access Prices for Precise Actions
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Daily Spot & Term Prices
Platts publish daily price assessments that serve as the foundation for your contracts, providing you with the flexibility to capitalize on market fluctuations and negotiate with confidence.
Every day, traders, refiners, and producers rely on our prices globally to navigate market trends, inform pricing decisions, and mitigate risks in volatile commodity markets
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Unlock Full Price History
With access to our comprehensive Chemical Market Data, gain full price history so you can dive into historical price trends, analyze market patterns, and strategize your next moves to stay ahead of the competition.
Our data can be delivered how it best suits your systems, whether it’s via desktop or mobile through Platts Connect, cloud services, data feed or API solutions.
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The Markets We Cover
We have extensive global market coverage with more than 2000 price assessments in over 60 chemical markets.
- Aromatics and blendstocks
- Olefins
- Polymers and Recycled Plastics
- Methanol and Derivatives
- Solvents
- Intermediaries
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Methodology
We are widely trusted in the global market for providing independent, unbiased Platts assessment process. We gather data from a diverse range of market participants, applying rigorous quality control measures, and adhering to strict editorial guidelines and IOSCO principles.
Platts publish daily price assessments that serve as the foundation for your contracts, providing you with the flexibility to capitalize on market fluctuations and negotiate with confidence.
Every day, traders, refiners, and producers rely on our prices globally to navigate market trends, inform pricing decisions, and mitigate risks in volatile commodity markets
Platts Price Benchmarks & Key Assessments
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Key IOSCO Platts Benchmarks
We are a trusted source in assessing the global chemical markets. Our leading Platts price benchmarks include:
- Naphtha
- Paraxylene
- Benzene
- Methyl Tert-Butyl
- Ether (MTBE)
- Methanol
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Key Industry Platts Assessments
Our pricing expertise are vast and cover many chemical value chains. Key areas of coverage include:
- Aromatics imports (reference Asia price)
- Toluene
- Mixed Xylene
- Polyethylene
- Polypropylene
- Polyvinyl chloride
- Butadiene
- Propylene
- Acrylonitrile
- Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA)
- Polystyrene
- Solvents
- Recycled PET, HDPE, LDPE, PP
- Polymer exports
- Latin America polymers
We are a trusted source in assessing the global chemical markets. Our leading Platts price benchmarks include:
- Naphtha
- Paraxylene
- Benzene
- Methyl Tert-Butyl
- Ether (MTBE)
- Methanol
Real-time Price Discovery
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Platts eWindow Market Data
Platts eWindow Market Data brings an immediacy to Platts price discovery process that can’t be experienced anywhere else. Providing real-time trading information, with an at-a-glance view of all named bids, offers and transaction data shared during the Platts Market on Close (MOC) price assessment process.
Available for derivative data for naphtha, MTBE, and paraxylene; and swaps data for naphtha and propane.
Platts eWindow Market Data brings an immediacy to Platts price discovery process that can’t be experienced anywhere else. Providing real-time trading information, with an at-a-glance view of all named bids, offers and transaction data shared during the Platts Market on Close (MOC) price assessment process.
Available for derivative data for naphtha, MTBE, and paraxylene; and swaps data for naphtha and propane.
Track Prices through the Value Chains
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Aromatics & Blendstocks
Whether you are a gasoline blender, seeking the best-value octane booster, a producer of common household goods, or you actively trade and ship BTX globally, our key benchmarks for paraxylene, benzene, MTBE and other liquid chemical products would allow you to keep up with market developments and hedge your exposure via exchange-traded or OTC instruments.
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Polymers & Recycled Plastics
There are no recycled plastics markets without the virgin polymers markets, that’s why it’s essential to understand price movements for both, whether your interest is in raw materials and feedstocks, consumer markets and recycling processors, or through the plastic circular economy.
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Solvents
Get a better view of the key drivers for solvents business by tracking our global price assessments in chlor-alkali chain, hydrocarbon and oxygenated solvents, acids and ethanolamines.
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Olefins & Derivatives
There are few products which have a more profound impact on the health of the overall chemical industry than olefins. We offer pricing solutions to your business whether you are involved in the olefins markets or work further downstream.
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Methanol & Derivatives
Gain a compressive market view of the highly versatile building block methanol and its derivative value chain with our wide and deep pricing intelligence in methanol value chain.
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Intermediates
We invest a lot of time and effort into the coverage and assessments of various intermediate products, so that you don’t have to. Some of these assessments might only be used for internal profit allocations, while others are important chemicals in their own right, used across multiple industries.
Whether you are a gasoline blender, seeking the best-value octane booster, a producer of common household goods, or you actively trade and ship BTX globally, our key benchmarks for paraxylene, benzene, MTBE and other liquid chemical products would allow you to keep up with market developments and hedge your exposure via exchange-traded or OTC instruments.
Data & Distribution
Get the edge in today’s global markets with our Essential Intelligence® delivered through the providers and platforms which suit you.
API Solutions
Cloud
Data Feed
Desktop & Mobile
PLATTS PRICE ASSESSMENTS
Methodology
S&P Global Commodity Insights methodologies bring consistency and robustness to our price assessments through principles and parameters that guide our market specialists at every stage of the process.
Why Choose Us?
Unparalleled Experience
For 100+ years, we've delivered Platts price assessments for physical and forward markets. Customers count on us for news, pricing, and analytics, ensuring transparent, efficient markets for confident decisions.
Benchmark Prices
With 250+ Platts benchmarks, we're the industry standard for pricing negotiations and contracts. Our proven credibility in market transparency spans established and emerging markets.
Robust Methodology
Our robust methodology guarantees data integrity with stringent quality controls, diverse sources, and adherence to strict guidelines and IOSCO principles. We openly publish methodologies and price assessments to foster trust.
Data Your Way
Gain access to our essential intelligence direct and from multiple providers – from the established to the cutting edge – all via multiple platforms that can give you a decisive edge in today's global markets.
Pricing Experts
Globally, our extensive pricing experts, dedicated to each commodity ensure that pricing and methodology accuracy and that reflect the nuances and complexities of the markets, offering invaluable insights to clients.
Independent Source
Platts offers an independent and unbiased view. Our commitment to impartiality ensures that our assessments and insights are trusted by market participants.
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