Aromatics Services
An integrated view of long- and short-term aromatics market dynamics and strategic insights
Gain crucial insights in aromatics commercial trends and market fundamentals
Our services provide a multi-deliverable package covering short-term and long-term outlooks of supply, demand, trade, prices, capacity and projects. We help you understand the key commercial trends alongside with future market balances, and pricing of the aromatics markets. Optimise your commercial strategy with an integrated view built on proprietary data, tools and models.
Features and workflows
Long- and short-term strategic data and integrated analysis of the aromatics markets.
Key features of Wood Mackenzie's Aromatics Services:
- Global summaries and industry highlights, interconnected across the entire value chain.
- Integrated view of global supply and demand, trade, capacities, new investments and pricing with granular analysis and expert insights of chemical markets.
- Regular reports and access to a monthly/annual pricing dataset with forecasts.
- Functional charting dashboard to enable easy generation of charts for analysis and client reports.
Wood Mackenzie's Aromatics Services provides data including:
- Global benzene and styrene production and consumption activity of around 100 million tonnes per year, involving over 300 sites and 1,200 assets globally.
- Global and regional PX and PTA analysis on a monthly and biannual update basis.
- Dynamics analysis on metaxylene and PIA supply and demand in more than 40 countries and key regions.
- Regional to country-level data on over 30 cumene-phenol-acetone key markets globally, looking at supply and demand dynamics out to 2050.
- Monthly polyester market outlook up to the next 24 months and a 3-month historic view of pricing in major regions.
Wood Mackenzie's Aromatics Services enables a number of key workflows including:
Price forecasting
- Evaluate how new capacity or unit rationalisations will affect trade and prices over the short-medium-long term.
- Understand pricing dynamics of end-products and raw materials in major regions – China, APAC, Americas and EMEA – and how they are interconnected.
Risk assessment
- Identify opportunities and manage risk in the commodity chemical markets.
- Obtain insights on where and when new aromatics and their value chain capacity will be built and assess the risks and implications of this new capacity.
- Get insights on unit rationalisations and understand how it affects global and regional supply-demand balances.
Supply chain forecasting
- Understand aromatics demand growth into the differentiated end-product segments.
- Examine the outlook on production costs and profitability of existing and future capacities.
- Understand historical and future trade flows.
Why choose WoodMac's Aromatics Services?
Wood Mackenzie’s Aromatics Services cover market fundamentals and provide you an integrated view across the entire value chain to support product and market evaluation, investment decisions, project feasibility review, and business plan validation.
Our aromatics services:
Benzene, Styrene & Derivatives
Understand the key commercial trends, supply/demand and capacity with our industry-wide benzene and styrene market report services.
Paraxylene & PTA
Understand paraxylene (PX) and purified terephthalic acid (PTA) price and market conditions, and compete more effectively through in-depth analysis of PX, PTA, DMT and polyester production capacity.
Metaxylene & PIA
Assess the risks of tight supply and obtain insights on capacity and forecast demand for purified isophthalic acid (PIA) and metaxylene.
Frequently asked questions
Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on Wood Mackenzie’s Aromatics Services. If you have any other questions, get in touch.
Our Aromatics Services cover different horizons:
- Up to 24-month outlooks with monthly updates
- Forecasts to 2050 with bi-annual or annual updates
Deliverables include weekly PDF reports, access to monthly pricing datasets, bi-annual reports covering market events and tactics, through to long-term (year-to-year) market outlooks and strategic options, and an interactive dashboard with trade, price, margin and cost data.
As for all WoodMac Chemical services, our Aromatics Services are global with regional and country breakdown.
Contact an expert
Access an integrated view of short- and long-term market dynamics and strategic insights of global chemical markets to understand and take advantage of the market outlook. Get in touch with one of our experts today to learn how you can leverage our data to recognise pricing and demand patterns before your competitors or build procurement and trading strategies.
