Chemicals
The chemicals industry converts raw materials like oil, natural gas, air, water, metals, and minerals into more than 70,000 different products. These products are used in various fields and sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing, construction, and service industries. We divide the chemicals industry into the following key segments:
1. Basic Chemicals: These are produced in large quantities and include organic (carbon-based) and inorganic (non-carbon-based) chemicals. Examples include ethylene and propylene, which are used in making products such as plastics, resins, and fibers.
2. Specialty Chemicals: These are chemicals known for their function or performance. They can be unique molecules or mixtures of molecules known as formulations. The physical and chemical characteristics of single molecules or formulated mixtures of molecules and the composition of the mixtures influences the performance end product.
3. Agricultural Chemicals: These include a variety of chemical products used in agriculture, including pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, and fertilizers.
4. Pharmaceuticals: This segment comprises companies that produce medicinal products for use in health applications, including prescription drugs, vitamins, and hormones.
5. Consumer Products: Goods for direct use by consumers (E.g. detergents, soaps, and cosmetics).
6. Petrochemicals: Derived from petroleum or natural gas, petrochemicals are a subset of chemicals that include such substances as plastic, detergents, solvents, elastomers and fibers such as polyester and nylon.
7. Polymers: These are a large part of the industry and include all categories of plastics and man-made fibers.
Our expertise spans all the above segments. We have multidisciplinary capabilities in the chemicals industry, including technical, business, finance, and supply chain and logistics, which we deploy to develop new plants from scracth using our "P2R" methodology (From Plan to Results), or help exisiting plants transform into high performamce, high profitability businesses. Our goal is to energize the industry and the world.