Chemical Processing Economic Snapshot Ending September 2021
Dec. 9, 2021
Shipments rose but capacity utilization slipped. Source: American Chemistry Council.
Shipments rose but capacity utilization slipped. 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.
