Target Audience
Corporate Strategy & Planning Professionals
Drive competitive advantage through reliable cost and market insights
If you are a Strategy Analyst, Strategy Manager, Corporate Planning Manager, or Business Development Manager you are constantly faced with questions like:
- Which regions offer the most attractive cost environments for investment screening and site selection studies?
- Which production routes offer the most competitive cost structures?
- How are commodity costs trending, and what does that mean for our investments?
- What are the local labor costs, and how do they compare with those of other countries?
Answering these questions requires reliable insights — and that’s where we come in. Since 2002, Intratec has delivered trusted analysis for Corporate Strategy & Planning professionals.
Key Challenges
Limited access to comparable cross-country benchmarks for location screening
Lack of reliable CAPEX and OPEX data to support business case justifications
Fragmented and inconsistent information across technologies
Difficulty anticipating how cost and price trends will affect project returns without reliable market intelligence
How Intratec Empowers Your Decisions
Commodity Production Costs
Independent CAPEX and OPEX estimates that support investment feasibility studies and business case justifications
Uniform cost analysis approach allows consistent side-by-side evaluation of alternative technologies
Standardized production cost analysis across countries help identify optimal investment locations
Primary Commodity Prices
Independent commodity price benchmarks grounded on closed transactions as reliable references for assessing local markets
Convenient and centralized access to prices for 225 commodities across multiple locations support strategic location screening studies
Historical price trends and short-term forecasts help anticipate potential impacts on project returns
Industry Economics Worldwide
Comparable capital cost factors across countries, supporting quick assessments of how investment requirements shift between locations
Benchmarks for industrial utility prices, serving as inputs for scenario analyses
Comparable labor cost data helps identifying regions with favorable cost structures
Historical cost trends and short-term forecasts help assess how business environments are evolving
Energy Prices & Markets
Independent energy price benchmarks covering exchange-based spot values as well as domestic prices — providing a clear view of local energy costs
Country-level energy profiles highlighting structural vulnerabilities (import dependence, concentration of trade partners), supporting strategic risk assessments
Data on national energy mix, clarifying exposure to carbon-intensive generation and potential risks from carbon pricing policies
Historical series and short-term forecasts help understand local energy price trends and potential strategic implications
Why Choose Intratec
Intratec combines cutting-edge AI, expert human insight, and transparent practices to deliver data and analyses with unmatched relevance, accuracy, and reliability
Intratec combines cutting-edge AI, expert human insight, and transparent practices to deliver data and analyses with unmatched relevance, accuracy, and reliability
