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Chemical Processing Economic Snapshot Ending October 2021

Jan. 17, 2022
Both shipments and capacity utilization rose. Source: American Chemistry Council.

Both shipments and capacity utilization rose. Source: American Chemistry Council.

† The updating of the CAB has been temporarily suspended.


The Chemical Activity Barometer, a metric developed by the American Chemistry Council, takes into account that chemical industry activity occurs early in the supply chain and so offers a leading economic indicator for the overall U.S. economy.

Because of the time needed to collect and generate the data, results presented lag the date they are posted by several months.

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