Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of global industrial and energy market intelligence, delivering verified data, analytics, and expert insight to support confident decision-making across the world's most complex industrial markets. For more than four decades, organizations around the world have relied on IIR to provide intelligence grounded in verified facts, not assumptions. Based on data from Industrial Info Resources, our clients are able to reduce risk, identify opportunities, and plan capital spending and operations with confidence.
What We Do
Industrial Info Resources delivers market intelligence across the industrial and energy landscape.
We provide comprehensive coverage of capital projects, operating assets, individual process units and equipment, outages, and long-term spending trends.
Our intelligence is designed for companies operating in complex, high-stakes environments where accuracy, timing, and context are the difference between success and failure.
Our brand IIR Energy serves asset owners, commodity traders, financial institutions, and governmental agencies with a comprehensive view of energy assets, from high-level trends to granular operational and outage details.
Global Market Intelligence (GMI™) Platform
PECWebIndustrial Market & Equipment Forecasts
Labor Market Analytics
40+
Years of business
750+
Employees
15
Locations worldwide
12
Industries
Why Trusted Data Matters
Qualified, verified, and continuously updated by human experts.
In today’s information-saturated world, data may be abundant, but trust is not.
Industrial decisions are increasingly influenced by analytics, forecasts, and AI-driven insights. Yet the quality of those outputs depends entirely on the quality of the underlying data. Inaccurate, outdated, or unverified information introduces risk that organizations cannot afford.
IIR exists to solve this problem.
Our intelligence is built on trusted data: data that is qualified, verified, and continuously updated by human experts. This foundation ensures that insights are reliable, defensible, and fit for high-impact decisions.
Qualified, verified, and continuously updated by human experts.
How Our Data Is Built
IIR’s research methodology is intentionally different than the rest.
Rather than relying on web scraping or secondary aggregation, our global research teams engage directly with asset owners, plant managers, engineers, project owners, and other primary sources.
This primary research approach allows us to uncover hard-to-find information, confirm or deny market rumors, and validate project details throughout the full lifecycle.
Expert Led
Primary research teams with deep industrial, operational, and process expertise.
Direct Verification
Data qualified and verified directly with plant contacts and industry sources.
High Frequency
Continuous update cycles designed to maintain timely, decision-ready intelligence.
Unique Hierarchy
Sophisticated database architecture designed for seamless research, analysis, and navigation.
Our data follows a simple but rigorous standard:
Our Research Methodology
Verified × Continuously Updated = Trusted Data
Every data point is actively monitored and revalidated under our Living Forward Reporting Principle™, ensuring intelligence remains current, contextual, and decision-ready, not static or speculative.
No AI generation. No web scraping. Primary research only, since 1983.
A Model For Trusted Data
To illustrate how trusted data is built, maintained, and applied, Industrial Info Resources can be understood through a structured model. Each component reflects a critical part of our methodology: from primary research and continuous validation to the delivery of actionable intelligence.
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Fruit Trusted Data
The result is trusted data (verified and continuously updated) delivered in a form that supports accurate analysis, informed decisions, and actionable insight.
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Canopy Global Intelligence Network
IIR’s global research organization connects regions, industries, and assets into a unified intelligence framework. Local expertise, supported by a worldwide footprint, ensures both depth and consistency across markets.
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Trunk Continuously Updated Intelligence
Data is actively monitored and revalidated throughout the lifecycle of projects and assets. Using our Living Forward Reporting Principle™, information remains current, contextual, and decision-ready as conditions evolve.
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Roots Verified + Validated through IIR's Human Network
The foundation of IIR’s intelligence begins with primary research. Our teams engage directly with plant managers, engineers, and project stakeholders to uncover hard-to-find information and verify details to confirm accuracy at the source.
Together, these elements form a system designed to produce intelligence that can be relied upon in high-stakes environments. The structure of our underlying data lays a strong foundation for our tree to prosper. IIR does not manufacture data like a factory; it cultivates it like an orchard.
From Strategy To Execution
Industrial Info Resources connects high-level strategy with on-the-ground reality.
This ability to move seamlessly between macro insight and granular detail allows organizations to align strategic planning with tactical execution using a single, trusted intelligence source.
Industry trends, market outlooks, and long-term spending forecasts
30,000-foot view
Industrial plants, projects, and events driving those outcomes
1,000-foot view
Individual projects, assets, units, and contacts
1-foot view
Leadership, Experience, And Endurance
Founded in the early 1980s by Ed Lewis, IIR addressed a critical gap in accurate, forward-looking industrial intelligence.
From the start, we prioritized information that was difficult to obtain and essential for growth. That commitment to primary, verified research remains unchanged.
For over 40 years, IIR has navigated economic and technological shifts through disciplined methodology and a commitment to best-in-class standards.
The founders of Industrial Info Resources (from left): Paul Brennen, Ed Lewis, Gene DeWree
The founders of Industrial Info Resources (from left): Paul Brennen, Ed Lewis, Gene DeWree
Trusted Data In An AI-Driven World
We provide the ground truth that makes advanced analytics possible.
Artificial intelligence is transforming how information is accessed and analyzed. At Industrial Info Resources, we view AI as a powerful enabler when grounded in trusted data.
Trusted data starts with people.
IIR applies advanced analytics and AI capabilities to its proprietary intelligence to enhance forecasting, scenario planning, and accessibility including augmented prescriptive insights. However, human verification remains central to our process. AI does not replace our human expertise; it amplifies it.
As AI capabilities evolve, IIR is not reducing its global human research network that underpins the quality of its intelligence, we are continuing to invest in and grow it. We believe the value of AI depends on the quality, depth, and integrity of the data that informs it, and that foundation is strengthened through experienced researchers, direct source relationships, expert validation, and the underlying database structure that supports the data.
Rather than substituting automation for expertise, we are expanding the human intelligence that supports the data feeding our AI-enabled tools, ensuring those outputs remain accurate, explainable, and actionable.
It's the Knowledge that drives AI. Without knowledge, AI doesn't work.
In an AI-driven economy, trusted data becomes more valuable, not less.
IIR provides the ground truth that allows advanced analytics and AI-enabled insights to deliver confidence at scale.
Moving Forward With Confidence
Industrial Info Resources continues to evolve alongside the industries we serve, expanding coverage, advancing analytics, and refining how intelligence is delivered.
What remains constant is our commitment to trusted data, expert insight, and disciplined methodology. Because when decisions matter, confidence starts with knowing the information behind them can be trusted.
Global Reach, Local Expertise
Industrial Info Resources operates with a global footprint supported by local presence.
With offices across five continents and researchers fluent in 59+ languages, our teams build direct relationships with plant contacts in their native language and local business context. This approach improves accuracy, accelerates verification, and provides insight that cannot be captured from afar.
Today, Industrial Info Resources supports intelligence across 12 major industrial and energy sectors, backed by a global team dedicated to research, analysis, and client success, strategically positioned in 15 research locations.
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