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Cefic - Facts and Figures of the European Chemical Industry vs EPA Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) Rule
Which diversified chemicals data provider data fits your job: Cefic - Facts and Figures of the European Chemical Industry, or EPA Chemical Data Reporting Rule. API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
Cefic - Facts and Figures of the European Chemical Industry
EPA Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) Rule
Where the fields line up
No shared field names. These two answer different questions.
| Field | Cefic - Facts and Figures of the European Chemical Industry | EPA Chemical Data Reporting Rule |
|---|---|---|
Series label | Row descriptor combining indicator, sector and unit in a semicolon-delimited grammar — 'Sales (Value); Chemicals (20); Mn Euro;' reads as measure, scope, unit. Parsing on the semicolons recovers a tidy three-column dimension set from a single string. | not in this set |
Series code | Internal Cefic identifier carried alongside the human-readable label on many rows; stable across editions, which makes it the safest join key when assembling multi-edition panels. | not in this set |
Year columns (2005–2024) | One annual value per year column for the series, stated in the unit named in its label — million euros, thousand persons, index points against a declared base year. | not in this set |
Sector breakdown | Chemical segment sub-totals used in the trade sheets, each defined as a sum of internal sector codes: Basic inorganics (2011+2013+2015), Petrochemicals (2014), Polymers (2016+2017+206), Specialties (2012+202+203+205), Consumer chemicals (204). | not in this set |
Partner country | Trade partner dimension on the customer-country export and import sheets, keyed as a direction plus country — United States, China, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Korea, Türkiye, Japan, India and the rest of the top-partner set. | not in this set |
CHEMICAL NAME | not in this set | Systematic chemical substance name as listed on the public portion of the TSCA Inventory. |
CHEMICAL ID | not in this set | Chemical substance identifier: CAS Registry Number, or an Accession Number where the specific identity is claimed confidential. |
CHEMICAL ID TYPE | not in this set | Whether the identification is expressed as a CASRN or an Accession Number - the flag separating fully public identities from withheld ones. |
STANDARDIZED PARENT COMPANY NAME | not in this set | Standardized foreign or domestic parent company name for the submitter. |
DOMESTIC / FOREIGN PARENT COMPANY NAME | not in this set | Domestic and foreign parent company names reported separately, letting ownership chains be resolved per site. |
SITE NAME / SITE CITY / SITE STATE | not in this set | Manufacture (including import) site name and location, at city and state level. |
SITE LATITUDE / SITE LONGITUDE | not in this set | Geocoded coordinates of the manufacture site. |
Coverage, side by side
| Cefic - Facts and Figures of the European Chemical Industry | EPA Chemical Data Reporting Rule | |
|---|---|---|
| Geographic | EU27 with country-level breakdowns and comparisons to China, the US and other regions | United States manufacturing and import sites |
| Temporal | Annual series 2005-2024 in the data file; output charts extend to 2025 (provisional); some indicators baseline to 2004, 2008 or 2009 | Four-yearly collections since 1986; the 2024 cycle covers reporting years 2020-2023 |
| Granularity | Aggregated industry-level series by indicator, chemical sector segment, EU country and trade partner | Per chemical substance, per manufacturing or import site, per company |
What each contains
They tie on 2 attributes. Pick by fit, not by loyalty.
| Cefic - Facts and Figures of the European Chemical Industry | EPA Chemical Data Reporting Rule | |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | Cefic (European Chemical Industry Council) | US Environmental Protection Agency |
| Subject | The EU27 chemical economy in aggregate: profile, trade development, growth and competitiveness, contribution to EU industry, energy consumption, capital and R&I spending | US chemical substances in commerce: production volumes, manufacturing and import sites, processing and use, exposure-related data under TSCA Section 8(a) |
| Geographic coverage | EU27 with country-level breakdowns and comparisons to China, the US and other regions | United States manufacturing and import sites |
| Temporal coverage | Annual series 2005-2024 in the data file; output charts extend to 2025 (provisional); some indicators baseline to 2004, 2008 or 2009 | Four-yearly collections since 1986; the 2024 cycle covers reporting years 2020-2023 |
| Unit of analysis | Aggregated industry-level series by indicator, chemical sector segment, EU country and trade partner | Per chemical substance, per manufacturing or import site, per company |
| Scale | 23-sheet data workbook (~1.5 MB) plus a ~100-slide chart deck; roughly 20 indicator families per edition | ~8,650 chemicals reported in the 2024 cycle across multiple relational tables |
| Dictionary size | 5 documented fields, definitions verified | 29 documented fields, definitions verified |
| Formats delivered | XLSX, PPTX, HTML | CSV, ZIP, XLSX, Access, PDF |
| Delivery cadence | Daily, weekly, or hourly - your call | Daily, weekly, or hourly - your call |
| Best for | Top-down EU27 sizing, benchmarking and competitiveness analysis | Bottom-up US analysis of who makes which chemical, where, at what volume |
What each does better
Cefic Facts and Figures
The EPA CDR structure is the inverse - one cycle per collection, the current files describing 2020-2023 only.
Trade resolved by sector and by partner. Extra-EU27 exports, imports and trade balance come split across Basic inorganics, Petrochemicals, Polymers, Specialties and Consumer chemicals, with customer-country sheets down to labels like 'Export to United States'.
the EPA Chemical Data Reporting Rule
It resolves single sites and substances. Every record names the chemical, the standardized, domestic and foreign parent companies, the manufacturing or import site with city, state, latitude and longitude, an EPA Facility Registry ID and site NAICS codes. Mappable, joinable facility data is precisely what EU27 aggregates cannot offer.
Volumes arrive in physical units, already split. Domestic manufacture, imports and calculated aggregates appear in pounds for the principal year plus three prior years, alongside nationally aggregated figures and an ACTIVITY value distinguishing manufactured, imported or both - the raw material for supply-chain and concentration analysis.
Downstream demand is coded, not guessed. Processing and use operations map onto 48 industrial sector codes, 117 industrial function categories and 97 consumer and commercial product categories, each carrying its percentage of production volume - plus a flag for products intended for use by children.
Exposure comes as fields, not footnotes. Ranges for workers reasonably likely to be exposed, maximum concentration by weight, and the physical forms leaving the submitter's possession travel on the same rows as the volumes.
Its memory is longer than its latest cycle suggests. Collections reach back to 1986, with thresholds documented over time (25,000 lb since 2006, processing and use information at 300,000 lb, pre-2006 coverage limited to organic chemicals above 10,000 lb) so earlier vintages can be interpreted honestly.
Where they're equivalent
More than the geography implies.
- Both are institutional compilations. Cefic aggregates public sources including Eurostat, the European Commission and the EEA into one reference; EPA compiles statutory filings into one public database. Neither is a vendor product.
- Both dictionaries are verified, every definition checked rather than inferred - inside the 85.7% of the 1,744 cataloged datasets that meet that bar.
- Both are spreadsheet-native. XLSX appears in both format lists, so one Python or Excel pipeline reads either side without conversion work.
- Both stop short of the present. Cefic's chart extensions to 2025 are flagged provisional while the data file ends at 2024; CDR's current cycle describes 2020-2023.
- Neither ships a bridge to the other - no shared identifier joins euros per indicator-year to pounds per chemical-site.
The verdict
Verdict: sample both, pick by fit. They measure the same industry at different zoom levels, so the question you are asking picks the instrument.
In our persona scoring, Cefic rates relevance 3 for market researchers and journalists, and 1 for data scientists, who use it mainly to calibrate EU chemical-sector features.
Take EPA CDR if your unit is a substance, a site or a company. Analysts mapping who makes what in the US and at what tonnage, competitive-intel teams tracing competitor manufacturing footprints through NAICS-coded sites, product-stewardship teams reading consumer and commercial use categories, model builders featurizing production volumes - all need record-level rows. CDR rates relevance 3 for both data scientists and market researchers in the same scoring.
If the deliverable is a Europe-vs-America brief, the honest answer is that neither substitutes for the other - which is why both sit in the market-sizing cluster.
Sample both, pick by fit. See Cefic - Facts and Figures of the European Chemical Industry · See EPA Chemical Data Reporting Rule
Fair questions
Is Cefic Facts and Figures better than the EPA Chemical Data Reporting Rule?
Better for different units of analysis. Cefic answers industry-level questions about the EU27 - EUR 635 billion turnover, 1.2 million employed, trade balances, energy and R&D series back to 2005. EPA CDR answers substance-level questions about the US - 8,650 chemicals with site coordinates, volumes in pounds and exposure ranges. Both score 8/10.
Do the two field dictionaries overlap?
Only in skeleton. Each reduces to an identifier, a period stamp, a measured value and a classification vocabulary. Beyond that they diverge: Cefic's five documented fields describe indicator series in euros, persons and index points, while EPA CDR's twenty-nine describe chemicals, sites, parent companies, pound-denominated volumes and use categories.
Which dataset reaches further back in time?
Different senses of far. Cefic packs continuous annual series from 2005 to 2024, with some indicators baselined to 2004, 2008 or 2009, in one workbook. EPA CDR has collected since 1986, but in four-yearly steps - its current cycle reports only 2020-2023, and older vintages cover fewer fields because thresholds were lower.
Can I join Cefic records to EPA CDR records?
Not row by row. There is no shared identifier between euros per indicator-year and pounds per chemical-site. Aggregate each side first - EU27 sector series against NAICS-coded US production totals, for example - then compare the constructed figures at portfolio level rather than pretending a direct match exists.
Can I get both from Datadory?
Yes - sample both, pick by fit, or take both in one feed. Each arrives normalized to its documented field dictionary with sample rows attached for validation, on the delivery schedule your team sets, alongside the rest of the diversified chemicals catalog.