See commodity supply shift before the official numbers.
- Utilisation and production volume per site, updated between official releases
- Roll-ups by producer, country and region
- Alerts on shutdowns, slowdowns and restarts
Commodity supply and emissions, read at the source.
QAIrbon measures the economic and environmental performance of industrial sites from space: production, utilisation, capacity and emissions, in near real time and ahead of official figures.
Global copper smelting activity
Source: QAIrbon · real data
Biggest moves · m/m
World utilisation—
4Commodities addressed
LiveSteel · CopperNextIron ore · Met coal~500Plants under observation
4–6 wksAhead of official figures
Product
Satellite measurement. Two readings of the same plant's performance.
Independent CO₂ estimates, plant by plant.
- Monthly CO₂ per site and producer, estimated from measured output
- Intensity per tonne, comparable across countries
- Documented, auditable methodology
- Next: direct CO₂ measurement from our own satellite, planned for 2029
Data Gaps
What official data can't tell you.
The gapWhat it means for youWith QAIrbon
LateOfficial statistics describe production weeks after it happened.Nowcast updated every 3–5 days
AggregatedData isn't always available at every level of granularity.Plant-level, rolled up to producer and country
UnevenReporting quality varies widely from one country to the next.One method, applied everywhere
DeclarativeFigures are self-reported, with methods you can't check.Direct observation from space, transparent processing method
No CO₂ benchmarkNo independent, comparable measure of a plant's emissions.CO₂ intensity per site, comparable across countries
Why QAIrbon
Worldwide commodity industry, read like an open book.
Global coverage
Over 500 blast furnaces and copper smelters, across six continents.
From macro to asset
Start from a region, drill down to country, plant and producer, with or without joint ventures.
Early signals
4–6 weeks ahead of official statistics. Our nowcast updates every 3–5 days.
Platform
Your data, delivered the way your team works.
ClaudeQAIrbon connected
Which European blast furnaces ran below 75% in Jul? Anything I should worry about?
⚙ Used qairbon · list_sites
region=EU27 · month=2026-07 · max_utilisation=754 plants in your watchlist were below 75% in July 2026:
| Plant | Utilisation | m/m |
|---|---|---|
| ArcelorMittal · Eisenhüttenstadt | 37.5% | +1.1 pt |
| Acciaierie d'Italia · Taranto | 43.9% | +2.5 pt |
| ArcelorMittal · Dunkerque | 70.6% | +0.2 pt |
| thyssenkrupp · Duisburg | 72.7% | +5.2 pt |
The two lowest have run below 60% for most of the year, so this looks structural rather than a one-off. Want me to set an alert if any of them drops another 5 points?
+Reply to Claude…
Monitoring
Your monthly report and alerts, straight to your inbox.
- Alerting systemShutdowns, restarts and sustained drops on the plants you follow, by email or webhook.
- Automated reportsA monthly readout of your watchlist, producers and countries, delivered on the 1st.
QAIrbon Reports1 Sep
Your monthly readout — August 2026 World steel utilisation56.6%▼ 2.2 pt
AlertTata Steel BSL · Meramandali-25.9 pt
AlertCleveland-Cliffs · Middletown-7.5 pt
Methodology
Built to be tested.
- Thoroughly backtested
Our production estimates are backtested against the reference statistics the market relies on.
- Point-in-time history
Values are stored exactly as published on each date. Revisions are appended, so your backtests carry no look-ahead bias.
- Third-party validated
Independent validation of our CO₂ methodology is under way.
- Confidence scores published
Each value carries a lower and upper bound. Cloudy months widen the band — you see it, and so does your model.
The public index
QAIrbon Global Steel Activity Index
The World index is public and updated monthly, with the confidence band we publish alongside every figure. Regional, corporate and asset-level series are released to clients.
You're in. The next reading lands on the 1st.
Commodity
Steel
QAIrbon Activity Index · World
56.6%▼ 2.2 pt MoM
Region
Measured utilisationPublished confidence band
This series is available on request.
The World index is public. Regional, country, corporate and asset-level series are released to clients and during a data assessment on your own coverage.
Be told the day this index goes live.
Noted. You'll get the first reading as soon as it is out.
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