2024 Annual Industrial Chemicals and Synthetic Resins Survey

- Please print in ink.

- When precise figures are not available, please provide your best estimates.

- Report quantities rounded to the nearest unit.

1. Verify or provide the business or organization's legal and operating name and correct where needed.
Note: Legal name modifications should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

Legal name:

Operating name (if applicable):

2. Verify or provide the contact information of the designated business or organization contact person for this questionnaire and correct where needed.
Note: The designated contact person is the person who should receive this questionnaire. The designated contact person may not always be the one who actually completes the questionnaire.

First name:

Last Name:

Title:

Preferred language of communication (English/French):

Mailing address (number and street):

City:

Province, territory or state:

Postal code or ZIP code (Example A9A 9A9 or 12345-1234):

Country:

Email address (Example: user@example.gov.ca):

Telephone number (including area code) example 123-123-1234:

Extension number (if applicable):

Fax number (including area code) Example 123-123-1234:

3. Verify or provide the current operational status of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

-Operational --» Go to question 4

-Not currently operational (e.g., temporarily or permanently closed, change of ownership)

Why is this business or organization not currently operational?

i. Seasonal operations --» Go to question 3a.

ii. Ceased operations --» Go to question 3b.

iii. Sold operations --» Go to question 3c.

iv. Amalgamated with other businesses or organizations --» Go to question 3d.

v. Temporarily inactive but will re-open --» Go to question 3e.

vi. No longer operating due to other reasons --» Go to question 3f.

3a. Seasonal operations
When did this business or organization close for the season?
Date YYYYMMDD

When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
Date YYYYMMDD --» Go to question 4

3b. Ceased operations
When did this business or organization cease operations?
Date YYYYMMDD

Why did this business or organization cease operations?

-Bankruptcy --» Go to question 4

-Liquidation --» Go to question 4

-Dissolution --» Go to question 4

-Other (Specify the other reasons why the operations ceased) --» Go to question 4

3c. Sold operations
When was this business or organization sold?
Date YYYYMMDD

What is the legal name of the buyer? --» Go to question 4

3d. Amalgamated with other businesses or organizations
When did this business or organization amalgamate?
Date YYYYMMDD

What is the legal name of the resulting or continuing business or organization?

What are the legal names of the other amalgamated businesses or organizations? --» Go to question 4

3e. Temporarily inactive but will re-open
When did this business or organization become temporarily inactive?
Date YYYYMMDD

When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
Date YYYYMMDD

Why is this business or organization temporarily inactive? --» Go to question 4

3f. No longer operating due to other reasons
When did this business or organization cease operations?
Date YYYYMMDD

Why did this business or organization cease operations?

4. Verify or provide the current main activity of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name.
Note: The described activity was assigned using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

This is the current main activity --» Go to next section

This is not the current main activity
Please provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's main activity
e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development

5. Was this business or organization's main activity ever classified as:

Yes

No --» Go to next section

6. When did the main activity change?
Date YYYYMMDD

1. Provide the start and end dates of this business's reporting period for the current year. If submitting an adjustment for a previous reporting period, provide the start and end dates for the reporting period being revised.

Start date YYYYMMDD

End date YYYYMMDD

2. What are the reasons the reporting period does not cover the full year?
Mark all that apply.

-Seasonal operations

-New business

-Change of ownership

-Temporarily inactive

-Change of accounting method

-Ceased operations

-Other - specify the other reason the reporting period does not cover a full year

1. What unit of measure will be used to report quantities for industrial chemicals and synthetics resins?

• Metric tonnes

• Kilograms

• Pounds

2. What quantity of each of these industrial chemicals did this business produce in 2024?
Include intermediate products made by this business and used in making other products.

Industrial Chemicals

• a.: Nitric acid, 100%
  Quantity:
• b.: Phosphoric acid; wet process (as 100% P2 O5)
  Quantity:
• c.: Ammonia anhydrous, 100%
  Quantity:
• d.: Ammonium nitrate, all grades
  Quantity:
• e.: Ammonium phosphate, all grades
  Quantity:
• f.: Butadiene
  Quantity:
• g.: Butylene
  Quantity:
• h.: Carbon black
  Quantity:
• i.: Chlorine
  Quantity:
• j.: Ethylene
  Quantity:
• k.: Ethylene oxide
  Quantity:
• l.: Formaldehyde 100% solids basis
  Formaldehyde can only be stored as a water solution. To convert to a 100% solids basis equivalent,
  multiply its water solution weight by its concentration and divide by 100. For example, if the water
  solution weight at 52% concentration is 100 metric tonnes, the weight at 100% solids basis is: 100 X
  52/100 = 52 metric tonnes.
  Quantity:
• m.: Hydrogen peroxide, 100%
  Quantity:
• n.: Methyl alcohol (methanol)
  Quantity:
• o.: Propylene, all grades
  Quantity:
• p.: Styrene monomer
  Quantity:
• q.: Urea, all grades
  Quantity:
• r.: Benzene
  Quantity:
• s.: Toluene
  Quantity:
• t.: Xylene
  Quantity:
• u.: Zinc oxide
  Quantity:

3. What quantity of each of these new virgin resins did this business produce in 2024?
Exclude compounding or colouring ingredients.

Synthetic resins

• a.: Polyethylene, low density
  Quantity:
• b.: Polyethylene, linear low density
  Quantity:
• c.: Polyethylene, high density
  Quantity:
• d.: Polystyrene
  Quantity:
• e.: Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS)
  Quantity:
• f.: Polyvinyl chloride
  Quantity:
• g.: Polyesters, unsaturated
  Quantity:

4. Indicate any changes or events that affected the reported values for this business or organization compared with the last reporting period.
Mark all that apply.

-Strike or lock-out
How many days during the reference year was your production interrupted?

-Exchange rate impact

-Price changes in goods or services sold

-Contracting out

-Organizational change

-Price changes in labour or raw materials

-Natural disaster
How many days during the reference year was your production interrupted?

-Recession

-Change in product line

-Sold business or business units

-Expansion

-New or lost contract

-Plant closures
How many days during the reference year was your production interrupted?

-Acquisition of business or business units

-Vacation or maintenance periods
How many days during the reference year was your production interrupted?

-Equipment failure
How many days during the reference year was your production interrupted?

-Seasonal operations
How many days during the reference year was your production interrupted?

-Increased or decreased market demand

-Other
Specify the other changes or events:

-No changes or events

5. Statistics Canada may need to contact the person who completed this questionnaire for further information.

If the contact person is the same as on cover page, please check --» Go to " Feedback "
Otherwise, who is the best person to contact about this questionnaire?

First name:

Last name:

Title:

Email address (Example: user@example.gov.ca):

Telephone number (including area code) Example: 123-123-1234:

Extension number (if applicable):

Fax number (including area code) Example: 123-123-1234:

6. How long did it take to complete this questionnaire?
Include the time spent gathering the necessary information.

Hours:

Minutes:

7. We invite your comments about this questionnaire.

Confidentiality
Your answers are confidential.
By law, Statistics Canada is prohibited from releasing any information it collects that could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent, or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Statistics Canada will use the information from this survey for statistical purposes only.

Data sharing agreements
To reduce response burden, Statistics Canada has entered into data sharing agreements with provincial and territorial statistical agencies and other government organizations, which have agreed to keep the data confidential and use them only for statistical purposes. Statistics Canada will only share data from this survey with those organizations that have demonstrated a requirement to use the data.

Section 11 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with provincial and territorial statistical agencies that meet certain conditions. These agencies must have the legislative authority to collect the same information, on a mandatory basis, and the legislation must provide substantially the same provisions for confidentiality and penalties for disclosure of confidential information as the Statistics Act. Because these agencies have the legal authority to compel businesses to provide the same information, consent is not requested and businesses may not object to the sharing of the data.

For this survey, there are Section 11 agreements with the provincial and territorial statistical agencies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon. The shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.

Section 12 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with federal, provincial or territorial government organizations. Under Section 12, you may refuse to share your information with any of these organizations by writing a letter of objection to the Chief Statistician, specifying the organizations with which you do not want Statistics Canada to share your data and mailing it to the following address:

Chief Statistician of Canada
Statistics Canada
Attention of Director, Enterprise Statistics Division
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Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0T6

You may also contact us by email at infostats@statcan.gc.ca or by fax at 1-514-496-4879.

For this survey, there are Section 12 agreements with the statistical agencies of Prince Edward Island, Northwest Territories and Nunavut as well as with Environment and Climate Change Canada.

For agreements with provincial and territorial government organizations, the shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.

Record Linkages
To enhance the data from this survey and to reduce the response burden, Statistics Canada may combine the acquired data with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.