Finding Industry Information for CBE

Looking for industry information related to chemical and biochemical engineering to use in your design report? The following key resources contain chemical, petrochemical, energy and pharmaceutical industry market trends, market reports and industry news.

Industry News

Proquest-ABI/Inform Trade & Industry: covers major trade and industry news. With ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including petroleum, petrochemicals, and pharmaceuticals. Tips for searching: Search using classification codes to limit results to specific industries (eg. 8640 Chemical industry) or by geographic area codes to limit results to certain locales (eg. 9172 Canada).

Factiva: covers company and industry information. Tips for searching: Search by selecting sources by company, industry (eg. agrochemicals) or region.

Industry Market Reports & Trends

MarketResearch.com: provides quantitative and qualitative analysis of new and existing markets. Reports are international in scope. Tips for searching: Use Browse by topic to scan the list of reports available for the industry you are researching.

MarketLine: provides industry, company and country profiles.

Mergent Horizon: provides information about companies and industries.

Mergent Online: provides company and industry reports by region.

Freedonia Focus: provides market size, historical and forecasted demand by product and markets, and profiles of the market leading companies.

Trade Publications

Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN)

Chemical Week

ICIS Chemical Business

Modern Plastics

Associations

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

Canadian Chemical Producers' Association

National Petrochemical and Refiners' Association

American Insitute of Chemical Engineers

Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering