# June 2026

Released on June 3, 2026.

May 2026 data are now available. Available forecasts through November 2026.

## Intratec Primary Commodity Prices

[!badge variant="warning" text="FIX"] **Nylon 6, Polybutylene Terephthalate, and Ammonia prices were revised.** Nylon 6, domestic spot price, exw, Germany (`516408-1-2`), Polybutylene Terephthalate, domestic spot price, exw, Northwest Europe (`797564-1-2`), and Ammonia, import spot price, cfr, Northwest Europe (`28209-1-5`) were revised for recent months, along with MTBE (`2524113-1-11`), Isobutane (`6524112-1-11`), and Ethylene (`1924111-1-11`).

## Intratec Energy Prices & Markets

[!badge variant="primary" text="MINOR IMPROVEMENT"] **Russia's natural-gas cost input switches to domestic pricing.** In-country gas-cost assessments for Russia now use Natural Gas, transaction price, ddp, Russia (`4474685-8-5`), reflecting domestic pricing rather than an international export reference. Assessments that consume this input are revised accordingly.

[!badge variant="primary" text="MINOR IMPROVEMENT"] **China natural-gas forecast recalibrated.** The forecast for Natural Gas (liquified), industrial sector, exw, China (`54517-8-5`) was recalibrated with an updated statistical forecast, removing a discontinuity between the forecast and the most recent actual values.

## Intratec Industry Economics & Competitiveness

### Industry Economics Evolves into Industry Economics & Competitiveness

Intratec Industry Economics is now **Industry Economics & Competitiveness**. The renamed product broadens the subscription with a wider set of country-level assessments and adds a new downloadable PDF report summarizing each country's competitiveness position — a deliverable that did not exist before. Existing subscribers gain this expanded coverage and report automatically, at no extra cost.

The broader analysis now spans:

- **Logistics & infrastructure conditions** — road and rail freight density, port throughput, shipping connectivity, and electricity, water, and gas network density, created for 33 countries.
- **Labor costs** — chemical-plant compensation, paid-leave and social-security data, and payroll burdens, created for 33 countries.
- **Domestic tax environment** — corporate income-tax rates and loss-relief provisions, employer social-security costs, and indirect taxes, created for 33 countries.
- **Cost of capital & investment** — investment-grade corporate bond yields and Gross Fixed Capital Formation, created for 33 countries.
- **Local prices & spreads** — local commodity prices and their spreads, created for 33 countries.
- **New PDF competitiveness report** — a downloadable summary of each country's scoring across the pillars above, delivered alongside the existing dashboard data.

[!badge variant="info" text="MAJOR IMPROVEMENT"] **Process-water pricing methodology corrected for 17 countries.** Process Water, contract price (formula) assessments for Czech Republic (`011932-7-3`), Turkey (`751927-7-6`), and 15 other countries were recalculated under a corrected methodology that removes a pricing discontinuity. Demineralized water assessments that depend on process water are revised accordingly.

[!badge variant="info" text="MAJOR IMPROVEMENT"] **Process-water forecast smoothed for 14 countries.** Process Water, contract price (formula) assessments for France (`401933-7-2`), Hungary (`711935-7-3`), and 12 other gas-driven countries now weight the near-term forecast to reduce month-to-month volatility.

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