Polyethylene Asset Cost Tool

In a complex operating landscape, understanding the competitiveness of polyethylene assets can be challenging. The Polyethylene Asset Cost Tool benchmarks 900+ global polyethylene assets, taking into account technologies, types of polyethylene, regions, plant size, level of integration and feedstocks in play.

The Polyethylene Asset Cost Tool can be used stand-alone and can enrich  Wood Mackenzie’s Ethylene Asset Cost Tool with downstream analysis.

• Evaluate integrated polyethylene cost economics at the individual asset level
• Analyse polyethylene supply using trusted price forecasts and fully integrated, rigorous data file
• Benchmark performance of competitor assets on a plant gate and delivered cash cost basis
• Optimise the performance of the company’s assets at major demand centres
• Manage risk of supply chain disruptions by understanding the cost position of current and potential suppliers.

Use the Polyethylene Asset cost to:

• Run scenarios by customising new and existing assets, currency, crude prices, inland and deep-sea logistics and feedstock costs to develop the optimum business plan that mitigates risk.
• Design a detailed marketing plan by understanding the net-back prices and margins for new and existing assets at different market scenarios.

The Polyethylene Asset Cost tool delivers:

• Visualisation tools that map out plant gate cash costs, delivered cash costs and netbacks using over 1,000 inland and deep-sea logistics routes
• Detailed research into every existing and expected global polyethylene asset
• Ethylene to polyethylene integrated delivered cash costs for over 900 assets, accounting for inland and deep-sea logistics, tariffs and currency fluctuation
• Plant-by-plant manufacturing cost data integrated to ethylene cracker feedstocks, considering different polyethylene technology types (Gas Phase, Solution, Slurry and High-pressure technologies).

From plant gate to plastic manufacturing hub, the Polyethylene Asset Cost tool is designed to help you:

• Evaluate assets under Wood Mackenzie price forecasts and user-defined price forecasts.
• Understand producer rankings to satisfy global and regional polyethylene demand by type
• Run scenarios to examine the integrated cost position by changing crude oil, regional ethane and coal prices
• Identify the ideal location for a new asset and plan for future developments
• Devise supply chain and feedstock strategies to improve asset netbacks.