The Smart Cube partners with Polymerupdate to enhance customer access to petrochemical pricing intelligence, forecasting and consultancy

18 May 2022, London: The Smart Cube, a global provider of strategic research and analytics solutions, and Polymerupdate, a leading producer of real time news feeds, daily price assessments and analysis of various petrochemical products, have today announced a new strategic partnership which will streamline client access to petrochemical pricing intelligence, forecasting and consultancy.

The Smart Cube, which sources petrochemical and resins prices for multiple commodity grades, will now be able to share more holistic datasets from Polymerupdate with its clients, to increase visibility and speed of access. 

The Smart Cube will also become Polymerupdate’s preferred partner in delivering custom commodity solutions for its clients, including forecasting, commodity spend inflation, budgeting and volatility management.

Omer Abdullah, Co-Founder and MD, The Smart Cube said: “Polymerupdate has been a trusted provider of petrochemical insights to The Smart Cube for many years. By formalising this partnership, we will improve the client end-user experience, with increased access to critical intelligence and real time news feeds. There are further synergies through our Commodity Intelligence solution, which Polymerupdate can leverage for custom commodity support for its clients.” 

Sajjid Mitha, Founder and CEO, Polymerupdate, said: “Polymerupdate is proud of its association with The Smart Cube. Through this partnership Polymerupdate will be able to service client requests for forecasting and customised consultancy. Polymerupdate’s strength of providing daily market intelligence, benchmark pricing assessments with a historical database built over 20 years will help arm The Smart Cube in providing forecasting and consultancy to the petrochemical industry, something we see as a perfect amalgamation of our respective strengths.”

About The Smart Cube

For leading businesses around the world, The Smart Cube is a trusted partner for high performing intelligence that answers critical business questions. And we work with our clients to figure out how to implement the answers, faster. 

Through custom research, advanced analytics and best of breed technology, we transform data into insights – enabling smart decision-making to improve business performance at the top and bottom line. We call it: Intelligence. Accelerated.

Our clients include a third of the companies in the FTSE and Fortune 100, primarily in the CPG, Life Sciences, Energy, Chemicals, Industrials, Financial Services, Professional Services and Retail sectors. We serve our global client base from our offices in the UK, the USA, Switzerland, Romania and India.

Media Contact:

Jenny Rushforth, Director of Communications and Content

Email: jenny.rushforth@thesmartcube.com  

Tel: +44 (0) 7739 363 997

About Polymerupdate

Polymerupdate.com is an independent media organisation with over 100 staff. It is headquartered in Mumbai, India and has offices in key overseas locations including Istanbul, Turkey and Dubai, UAE. Polymerupdate produces real time news feeds, daily price assessments and analysis of various petrochemical products. 

The company hosts industry-leading conferences under the brand name RACE (Recycling And the Circular Economy) and has a training division under the Polymerupdate Academy brand label. Polymerupdate services several thousand clients in over 71 countries. These clients use Polymerupdate data to settle contracts, index physical trade, for analysis and as benchmarks while negotiating deals. 

Polymerupdate was founded in 1999 and is a privately held, India registered company. Polymerupdate, the Polymerupdate logo, RACE Conferences, Polymerupdate Academy, Polymerupdate TV are trademarks owned by Shalimar Infotech Pvt Ltd.

Media Contact:

Pratiksha Jaipal – Head of Media

Email: pratiksha.jaipal@polymerupdate.com

Tel: (91-22) 61772000