The challenges facing the chemicals industry in today’s environment
The chemical industry plays a significant role in the economic development and affects downward sectors such as agriculture, pharmaceutical, polymer additives, and others. Current challenges include end-markets demand, price volatility of key feedstocks, trade and regulatory barriers. Sustainability is a key goal and requires expanding efforts to improve the development and management of commercial chemicals.
Volatility of materials costs
The volatility of raw material costs, exchange rates, and tariffs continues to create a dynamic environment in the chemical industry. Those who aren’t flexible enough in negotiating contracts or fast enough in adjusting prices will face massive pressure on margins. Digital pricing and data analytics will be important tools to significantly accelerate pricing processes. Agility in contract and price management will be a key success factor for the chemical industry in the future.
Innovative challenges
The chemical industry is highly innovative. Innovation is an important pillar of its competitiveness. However, despite major investments and good developments, a majority of all new products miss their profit targets, due to considering commercial aspects far too late in their innovation process. Big data and intelligent algorithms, further strengthen the innovation power of the industry. Being able to capture the value through smart monetizing strategies will become even more important in future.
Mergers and globalization of the market
The industry is facing structural changes. Competitors from China and the Persian Gulf are coming to Europe and put pressure on industrial chemical companies. In addition, capital market pressures are leading to conglomerates splitting into smaller, focused entities specializing in specific applications. Over the past few years, we’ve seen transactional multipliers surge to new heights. Expectations of future sales growth are a major driver for this. This is why it’s more important than ever to solidly assess the markets in these transactions.
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