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You’re about to experience a smarter way to access commodity intelligence. This page will guide you through your migration from Mintec to Expana, ensuring a smooth transition and helping you unlock powerful new tools. Get in touch with your Account Manager for a sneak preview.
Vinay Kapoor
Chief Product Officer – Expana
Volatile markets. Opaque pricing. Supply chain shocks.
Expana is designed for procurement professionals who need fast, reliable insights to make informed decisions.
Welcome to your new home of global commodity price data, price forecasts & market intelligence for the food, CPG and capital goods supply chains.
What’s upgraded in Expana:
We’re discontinuing the Mintec platform to give you access to a more powerful experience with Expana.
Built from the ground up, Expana combines the best of our legacy platforms including Mintec, Urner Barry, Tropical Research Services, Stratégie Grains, and Feedinfo into one unified solution.
Expana delivers:
✔ Expanded data coverage across 36,000+ time series
✔ Smarter tools for dashboards, watchlists, and cost models
✔ Advanced forecasting capabilities with transparent methodology
✔ Integrated news and insights alongside your charts
Make confident decisions thanks to 2,000+ forecasts to guide sourcing, hedging, and pricing. Expana provides more data than your existing Mintec subscription.
If your organisation already subscribes to our Prescriptive Forecasts, you’ll see the same familiar information when analyzing forecasts. If your access is locked; please speak with your account manager to explore this new feature.
Understand true input costs, optimize margins, and even formulate new products virtually. With Expana IQ, cost models can be built in minutes for finished goods you produce – or source from elsewhere. Expana provides more data than your existing Mintec subscription.
If your organisation already subscribes to our Cost Models, you’ll see the same familiar information when analyzing cost model data. If your access is locked; please speak with your account manager to explore this new feature.
Across 36,000+ time series across 900+ commodities – including thousands of proprietary price series you can’t get anywhere else.
Built on 200+ years of expertise, Expana combines trusted benchmarks, forecasts, and intelligence in a fast, intuitive solution designed for high performance.
Get expert analysis and share insights from Expana throughout your organization with our data visualization tools, cost models, and dashboards.
Easily access and analyze data with expert reports, custom alerts, and negotiation packs.
Identify trends and understand where the market is heading to strengthen your approach and long-term strategies.
Get real-time alerts on commodity prices and market analysis to optimize your buying strategy, reduce costs, and gain control.
Improve your management of commodity price risk and minimize supplier costs with our market intelligence software and price insights.
Feed Expana data into your existing systems via API or data tools to improve speed, accuracy, and smarter decision-making.
While Expana brings powerful new tools and expanded coverage of +14,000 additional time series (if subscribed to all Expana categories) your core Mintec tools will be preserved as part of the transition.
As a reminder, your login details will remain the same.
Here’s what you’ll still have access to – just in a smarter, more integrated platform:
All your subscribed data and forecasts – Access to all data categories and time series, now under Prices & Forecasts in Expana. Plus expertly mapped Related Series information on a wide range of agri-commodities.
Advanced charting features – Moving Average, Historical Average, Seasonal Average, and Index remain available.
Forecast content – Video updates, monthly Macro Update, and tutorials still included.
Weekly digest – Renamed Forecasters’ Update, available via the Forecast chart view.
Insights and reports – Mintec Reports now under News & Insights, with the same ability to download PDFs.
Your existing work migrated:
Dashboard widgets – Line Chart, Watchlist, Forecast Line Chart, and Value widgets remain, with new widgets coming soon (Info Panel, Seasonality view via Historical Line Chart).
Alerts – Existing alert types for content and price movement will continue.
Mintec users will be migrated to the new Expana platform with notice provided to the user/s via email and on calls with your usual contact in advance. Once notified, go to the platform login page. If you have any problems, get in touch with your usual contact (Key Account Manager or Client Success Executive), or alternatively contact us [email protected].
The Client Success Team is ready to assist you. You can contact us anytime via this support form: https://www.expanamarkets.com/contact/contact-support/.
We’ll be retiring the Mintec platform to give you access to a more powerful experience with Expana. Built from the ground up, Expana combines the best of our legacy platforms – Mintec, Urner Barry, Tropical Research Services, Stratégie Grains and FeedInfo – into one unified solution. It delivers broader data coverage, smarter features and advanced Dashboarding and Cost Modelling tools that simply weren’t possible on the older platforms. You will be given a few weeks’ notice before we turn off the Mintec platform.
Mintec will soon be discontinued for all users, following a personalized timeline based on your transition date – typically within a month. You will be notified by email before your access ends. For updates, questions, or feedback, please stay in touch with your Expana account team.
To ensure you receive all important migration updates, please add [email protected] and [email protected] to your allow list in your email settings. Adding these addresses ensures our messages aren’t blocked or sent to your spam/junk folder.
If you’ve already added the addresses and still aren’t receiving emails, please check your spam folder and contact your IT team to confirm that emails from our domain are not being filtered.
Certain features from Mintec are not yet available in Expana. If you require support or are unable to locate a key functionality, please contact us below.