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Market intelligence platform for manufacturers

See what’s changing across your market before it becomes impossible to ignore. Valona helps intelligence and strategy teams cut through developments across competitors, suppliers, technologies, regulations and markets so they can give leadership the context to act while it still matters.

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Market and competitive intelligence for manufacturing decisions

Give your intelligence team a faster way to find what matters, build competitive context and answer the questions that drive manufacturing decisions.

  • Build a competitive view you can stand behind

    Bring competitor moves, investments, M&A, partnerships and market developments into one continuously updated view. See how competitor activity develops over time, with traceable sources behind the intelligence you bring to leadership.

  • Track the signals that matter

    Important manufacturing signals don’t always appear in the sources everyone reads. Valona monitors 200,000+ global, local and industry-specific sources across 115+ languages, helping you uncover relevant developments beyond the usual sources.

  • Get to the right answer faster

    Stop rebuilding the context every time a new question lands. The Valona platform continuously collects, filters and organizes the intelligence your team follows, giving you an up-to-date foundation for recurring reporting and unexpected leadership requests.

How leading manufacturers use market intelligence

See how intelligence teams at global manufacturers use Valona to keep up with change and support the decisions that follow.

  • Stay ahead of market change

    See how DeLaval tracks changing customer needs, emerging technologies, disruptive competitors and supply chain developments across global markets.

  • Turn intelligence into decisions

    See how De Beers brings large volumes of market intelligence together to surface relevant insights faster and support strategic decision-making.

  • Keep decision-makers informed

    See how Goodyear monitors markets, competitors and industry trends to keep decision-makers informed as conditions change.

Why more manufacturers choose Valona

For more than 25 years, Valona has helped global manufacturers make sense of complex, fast-moving markets. Today, we bring continuous market intelligence, intelligence-grade AI and deep industry expertise together in one solution. Strategy and intelligence teams spend less time keeping up and more time seeing what’s coming, understanding what it means and helping their organizations move first.

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    AI built for market intelligence

    Valona’s AI is built and tested for market and competitive intelligence. Investigate complex questions across multiple sources, connect developments that would otherwise stay scattered, and turn a constant flow of information into decision-ready analysis.

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    See market change sooner

    Valona continuously monitors global, local and industry-specific sources across 115+ languages, alongside financial, trade and other business data. Surface competitor moves, investments, regulatory shifts and early signals closer to where they happen, while there’s still time to act.

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    Intelligence you can trust

    Make decisions with validated intelligence grounded in transparent, traceable sources. Valona combines broad market coverage with quantitative and qualitative analysis, so you can dig into the evidence, challenge the answer and confidently stand behind what you take to leadership.

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    Get to the “what now?”

    Knowing what changed is only the beginning. Valona combines quantitative and qualitative intelligence with analysts who understand complex manufacturing markets, helping you uncover the implications, pressure-test what they mean for your business and decide what deserves attention next.

How manufacturers put Valona to work

Hidden sales leads delivered to your inbox

“With Valona we can access dozens of qualified new sales leads every week. These are from sources that are otherwise inaccessible to us and from a large selection of industries. ​ For us, Valona has become a significant source of qualified sales leads.”

Mika Numminen Head of Account Management – Finland ABB Oy

Faster decision-making

“Valona allows us to distribute relevant, timely and actionable information to targeted groups of associates providing visibility to information for better and faster decision-making.”

Dean Testa Manager – Competitive Intelligence Goodyear

Deliver timely information to the right people

[Valona is] the most customizable solution for individual business needs, … it really fits for what you need as a business and reflects the different areas that you need to get a better market understanding of

Sian Edwards Group Insights Manager Finlays

Strengthening market understanding

“One of the key returns on our investment is the ability of people who need to make critical decisions for the business to access data, information, intelligence reports as and when they need them without any further effort being involved, speeding up the whole process.”

Diana Mitkov Senior Manager of Demand Insights and Analytics De Beers

FAQ

In manufacturing, competitive and supply shifts usually appear first in operational and policy signals: a competitor announces or permits a new plant, a supplier adds or removes capacity, or a government changes trade, safety, or sustainability rules.

By the time these moves show up in financial results or official statistics, the window to secure capacity, adjust sourcing, or respond strategically may already be closing.

Real-time market intelligence gives manufacturing leaders early visibility into these signals. It helps them anticipate capacity expansions, manage supply and regulatory risks, adjust pricing and positioning, and allocate production and capital while competitors are still reacting.

Valona is purpose-built for global manufacturing enterprises in four key ways:

Industry-ready monitoring from day one.
Continuous coverage of manufacturing companies, value chains, technologies, regulatory developments, and market themes across multiple regions and languages.

A proprietary manufacturing source base.
Coverage spans trade media, regional industry publications, regulatory bodies, company announcements, and financial data sources relevant to industrial markets.

AI-powered analysis on trusted industry data.
Valona’s AI analyzes large volumes of market and competitor signals and turns them into clear, contextual insights. Instead of manually reviewing thousands of updates, intelligence teams receive synthesized analysis that highlights what changed, why it matters, and what could happen next.

Pre-built dashboards and competitor benchmarks.
Automatically updating financials, competitor profiles, and benchmarking dashboards provide a consistent foundation for competitive and market analysis without manual data reconciliation.

Valona provides market and competitive intelligence for a wide range of global manufacturing sectors. These include industries with complex supply chains, capital investments, and regulatory environments where early visibility into market and competitor signals is critical.

  • Industrial sectors: industrial machinery, metals & mining, building materials
  • Advanced manufacturing: electronics, automotive, medical devices
  • Process industries: chemicals, food & beverage, packaging

Be the reason leadership sees it coming

Let’s talk about how Valona can help your team stay on top of complex markets, make sense of what matters and get to the answers your business needs sooner.

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