- Market Overview
- Strategic Analysis
- Key Features
Market Overview
Duration: Short-term – 2-year price forecast and market outlook
The vinyl market has experienced impacts from high-interest rates, fluctuating energy prices and a tepid construction sector. Presently, demand for PVC is subdued due to elevated interest rates constraining the key downstream construction activities in real estate and infrastructure sectors. Meanwhile, the largest PVC demand region in the world, Northeast Asia, is undergoing structural changes as the Chinese demand outlook falls below its GDP level growth. We expect a cycle trough that would need some time to consume its excess supply. As economic activities recover and excess supply is consumed, the vinyls industry will move closer to its next cycle peak toward the end of this decade.
Comprehensive monthly market price, supply, demand, and trade data and analysis for:
- Ethylene Dichloride (EDC)
- Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM)
- Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
Strategic Analysis
Duration: Short-term – 2-year price forecast and market outlook
The Global Vinyls Market Advisory Service provides clients with a comprehensive and focused view of global vinyls market dynamics. The service includes a monthly report that covers the global overview of the EDC, VCM and PVC supply, demand, trade, and price trends. Discussion on costs and margins are also included in the report. Unlike other market reports service providers, Chemical Market Analytics goes beyond price reporting. The unique feature of this service is the deep level of understanding of cost and margin dynamics for all the products within the value chain. This enables our researchers to evaluate the market condition at any point in time and provide our clients with valuable strategic assessment of short- and longer-term market direction.
Subscribers gain access to a comprehensive monthly report that includes in-depth market analysis, pricing information, margin details, market commentary, and forecasts. On a quarterly basis, a PVC price and real-time freight cost analysis table are published that provides subscribers with a snapshot view of netback prices for PVC trade and its associated freight cost for major trade destinations around the world. Additionally, a data-centric mid-month supplement is provided, focusing on supply, demand, trade, and operating schedules. A brief commentary on EDC, VCM and PVC along with the latest discovered spot transactions, is also published during the mid-month update.
Subscribers have the privilege and are encouraged to actively collaborate with the subject matter experts (SMEs) within the Market Advisory Service team. Chemical Market Analytics employs robust and well-established models seamlessly integrated from feedstock to derivatives. Our team of researchers possess the experience and expertise to go beyond mere market reporting, ensuring the delivery of dependable and impartial in-depth analyses.
Key Features
Duration: Short-term – 2-year price forecast and market outlook
PRICES COVERED
Contract and spot price summary with a brief review of current market conditions.
- Ethylene Dichloride (EDC)
- Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
- Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM)
GLOBAL MONTHLY MARKET REPORT
A high-level summary of global market trends, followed by deep-dive analysis across seven key regions: North America, Latin America, Europe, Russia & the CIS, the Middle East, Mainland China, and other parts of Asia, including India. Each regional section delivers detailed insights into feedstock dynamics, pricing trends for EDC, VCM, and PVC, supply and demand fundamentals, plant operations, and trade flows, providing a comprehensive view of the entire value chain.
DATA SUPPLEMENT
A global mid-month update offers timely insights into market dynamics, complemented by a regional price summary table. This supplemental report features visual charts tracking historical and forecasted trends in feedstocks, PVC cash costs, and profit margins. It also includes a detailed quarterly supply/demand balance for PVC across key regions: the U.S. and Canada, Western Europe, the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent, Northeast Asia, Japan, and China. Monthly updates highlight operating schedules for selected plants in North America, Western Europe, Asia, and China. In addition, key trade volumes for EDC, VCM, and PVC are captured through regularly published country-level statistics
MARKET FOCUS REPORT
This report offers in-depth analysis of special topics that are critical to the global vinyls market, providing additional research on emerging challenges and key developments shaping the industry.
ACCESS TO SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS
One-on-one support via phone, email, or meetings to discuss topics covered in the monthly report.
SUPPLY & DEMAND
Short-term production news updates, production statistics, selected plant-by-plant operating schedules, and long-term structural supply changes.
TRADE
Trade statistics, global trade analysis, freight estimates, tariffs, and sanction tracking.
CLIENT WEBINARS
Client webinars provide in-depth reviews of market developments across North America, Europe/Middle East, and Asia. Each session features expert commentary on timely issues, such as global economic trends, trade dynamics, and other impactful events relevant to the specific period. These webinars also offer clients a valuable opportunity to engage directly with Subject Matter Experts through interactive Q&A sessions.