The production and supply of chemicals, materials and energy underpins most industrial activities. These basic sectors supply and feed the value chains that operate throughout transport, healthcare, industry and almost every manufacturing and conversion enterprise downstream.
We deliver solutions to challenges such as commoditisation, the threats and opportunities of disruptive technologies, maximising the use of capital-intensive assets and the development of new markets for existing technologies.
Over the last 20 years, Sagentia has built a focus around the chemicals, materials and energy sectors in response to issues and developments faced by the organisations that operate there. Our technical skills and deep experience in both the relevant technology and business domains has allowed us to address key issues such as:
Commoditisation – beating the relentless erosion of price and margins, driven by the increasing sophistication of new entrant producers in low cost regions.
New business creation – maintaining maximum use of capital-intensive assets when markets are becoming more fragmented and uncertain. There is a requirement here to create opportunities that exploit existing capabilities and facilities in new ways.
Creating enhanced value products – continuously adding value via new or better products. This includes the adoption of new potentially disruptive technologies, adaptions to disruptive technologies, feature innovations, or new business models.
Technology assessment – knowing which technology will win in which market. Organisations are under pressure to accurately resolve fine points of technical differentiation, define viable applications and customers, and value future sales.
Sagentia’s chemicals, materials and energy team brings a wealth of experience, including:
- consultants technically qualified to PhD level in areas of materials science, metallurgy, polymers, electro-chemistry, physics of materials, chemistry, electronic materials, and bio-materials
- consultants with senior corporate experience in organisations such as ICI, Alcan, Hoechst, BP, Aventis, IBM, Exxon, and GEC
- collaboration – our client network includes over 2,000 organisations globally, extended further by the personal networks of our consultants. We also have specific supporting relationships with institutions such as MIT Boston and the materials departments within the University of Cambridge.