VCI — German Chemical Industry Statistics (Chemiewirtschaft in Zahlen)

VCI German chemical industry statistics — Chemiewirtschaft in Zahlen is Germany's statistical portrait of its own chemical-pharmaceutical industry, compiled by Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. (VCI), the association speaking for roughly 2,000 German chemical-pharmaceutical companies, and carried here in the Diversified Chemicals vertical as one structured dataset. The subtitle translates as key figures, time series and structural data for research, and the contents honour it: twelve chapters — Produktion (production), Preise (prices), Umsatz (sales), Beschaefligung und Einkommen (employment and income), Energie und Rohstoffeinsatz (energy and raw-material input), Aussenhandel (foreign trade), Investitionen (investment), Forschung und Entwicklung (R&D), Finanzdaten (financial data), Umwelt (environment), Verkehr (transport) and Internationale Daten (international data). The numbering is German-pragmatic: the sales chapter answers to 0.

The production chapter runs six worksheets, and its first job is definitional — separating the VCI statistical boundary from the official Destatis boundary across polymers, inorganic base chemicals, paints/printing inks/adhesives, chemical fibres, and fine and specialty chemicals. Beneath the segment split sit product-level output series in tonnes for base chemicals including chlorine, methanol, vinyl chloride, acetic acid, ethylene dichloride, ethylene oxide, ethylene glycol, propylene glycol/oxide and hydrochloric acid. Behind the current edition stretches an archive of annual editions back to 1955 — roughly 69 of them — one of the longest continuous national chemical-industry statistical runs anywhere.

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Two corners of the set, exactly as delivered — the product-level output series from the production chapter and the price-index families from the prices chapter:

| CHAPTER       | WORKSHEET SERIES         | UNIT   |
| ------------- | ------------------------ | ------ |
| 01 Produktion | Chlor                    | Tonnen |
| 01 Produktion | Methanol (Methylalkohol) | Tonnen |
| 01 Produktion | Vinylchlorid             | Tonnen |
| 01 Produktion | Essigsaeure              | Tonnen |
| 01 Produktion | Ethylendichlorid         | Tonnen |
| 01 Produktion | Ethylenoxid              | Tonnen |
| 01 Produktion | Ethylenglykol            | Tonnen |
| 01 Produktion | Propylenglykol           | Tonnen |

| CHAPTER    | SERIES FAMILY                                      |
| ---------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| 02 Preise  | Index der Exportpreise                             |
| 02 Preise  | Index der Importpreise                             |
| 02 Preise  | Erzeugerpreisindizes ausgewaehlter Industriezweige |
| 02 Preise  | Preisindizes chemischer Anlagen                    |
| 02 Preise  | Energietraeger                                     |

Every one of those series runs as a continuous observation row — period, value, unit — so the chlorine line and the import-price line arrive in the same shape and join onto each other, or onto your own volume and price tables, without reshaping. Indices quote against a base year of 100; the tonnage series quote in Tonnen. The segment block below completes the picture: the five-way VCI split that heads the production chapter, the scaffold every product series hangs under.

| PRODUCTION SEGMENT (VCI BOUNDARY)     |
| ------------------------------------- |
| Polymere                              |
| Anorganische Grundchemikalien         |
| Anstrichmittel, Druckfarben und Kitte |
| Chemiefasern                          |
| Fein- und Spezialchemikalien          |

Ten core fields carry the published figures: production value by segment, the selected product-output volumes in tonnes, production indices benchmarked against sectors such as Maschinenbau (mechanical engineering), producer prices, export and import prices, the energy and raw-material input block, foreign-trade values, employment and income, sales, and R&D expenditure and intensity. Every field arrives mapped, typed and illustrated with a real value from the set, so joins onto your own German revenue, trade or cost tables need no archaeology. Measures living in the investment, financial-data, environment, transport and international chapters are folded into the second table — confirm their exact column list when requesting your sample.

• Geography: Germany, with world-market comparisons and country reports in the international chapter, plus separate Laenderberichte (state reports) for key countries.
• Temporal: multi-year time series in every chapter; current editions carry 'Stand' (as-of) dates running from December 2025 into August 2026, and the archive reaches back to 1955 across roughly 69 annual editions.
• Granularity: national totals stated along both sector boundaries — the VCI statistical boundary and the official Destatis boundary — then split by five segments (polymers, inorganic base chemicals, paints/printing inks/adhesives, chemical fibres, fine and specialty chemicals) down to individual base-chemical products in tonnes.

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1. Market researchers sizing the German chemical market and its segments — the production-value split across polymers, inorganics, coatings, fibres and fine/specialties is the standard map, and the Umsatz chapter puts a euro figure on it.
2. Investors and quants tracking European chemical cycles — production indices benchmarked against mechanical engineering turn the compendium into a clean diffusion check on industrial demand.
3. Competitive intel and product teams reading German cost structures — energy-carrier prices, raw-material inputs and chemical-plant price indices are the cost curve behind every German competitor's margin story.
4. Sales and growth teams ranking export corridors — the Aussenhandel chapter breaks chemical-pharmaceutical trade out by country and region, so territory plans follow the actual flow of goods.
5. Journalists, academics and economists needing citable national figures with a named institutional author and dated editions — every number above carries both, and the archive reaches back seven decades.

Notes and adjacent reading:

• Cefic — Facts and Figures of the European Chemical Industry — the Europe-wide frame around the German numbers: EU-sector turnover, employment and trade for benchmarking the domestic account.
• UK Chemical Industries Association (CIA) — industry facts — Britain's equivalent national account from its own trade body; the natural cross-country comparison for output, trade and employment.
• American Chemistry Council — Resin Production & Sales Statistics — the US production-and-sales counterpart, useful when the question is transatlantic capacity rather than German detail.
• Eurostat — Production and Consumption of Chemicals by Hazard Class — the EU-level production and consumption split by hazard class that sits above the national German series.
• Head-to-head: VCI German chemical industry statistics vs BASF-AI Chemical Data collection — where a national statistical account wins and where a corporate process dataset does.

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