Context

The Chemicals Industry Continues its Transformation Towards a More Sustainable Model

  • Concentration of the sector with a focus on the leaders of specialty products, the proposal of associated services and a good robust of industries and customer applications,
  • Increased pressure from regulations and civil society which encourages stakeholders to develop green chemistry and the circular economy in a logic of sustainable development and preservation of fossil resources,
  • Systematic valuation of co-products from production chains in different markets to improve profitability and mitigate the risk of exposure to a limited number of customer sectors,
  • Instability and increasingly unpredictable market trends that favor small and agile installations to the detriment of large ones.

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The Energy and Utilities Sector is Marked by Deregulation and New Technologies will Encourage the Entry of New Players and Intensify Competition:

  • Energy transition that pushes historical players to rethink their operations and infrastructure
  • Deregulation of the sector which reshapes the market between production, network and distribution and promotes the arrival of new players who use new technologies to increase the value proposition for customers
  • Appearance of new technologies that will change the paradigm of the sector with the possibility for end customers to be both producers and consumers of energy
  • Network management.

 

 

Stakes

  • In this context, the players in the Chemicals industry must develop their offers and increase their value proposition for their customers while developing their organizations and their operations in a more agile logic where digital and AI will be predominant.
  • Those in energy and utilities industry must rethink their model and set up relevant partnerships to cope with the arrival of new entrants who may “disrupt” their offer.​