Sustainability

Operational sustainability. Environmental Sustainability. Customer-centric Sustainability.

Sustainability is imposing new challenges and creating innovation opportunities in front of the C&M industry to provide differentiated solutions to customers; leading companies remain vigilant to ensure they work closely with downstream customer companies and help them to navigate through changing industry landscape and address industry-specific challenges.

Perspectives

Chemicals & Materials

Eco-friendly Alternatives to Single Use Plastic

Global plastics production has been estimated to be above 360 million metric tons for the year 2020, approximately half of our global annual plastic production is destined for a single-use product. As per industry experts, more than 130 million...

Future of Laundry

Chemicals & Materials

Top five trends driving future business operations of home care companies Laundry washing is an everyday household activity that will...

Plant based alternative materials to plastic packaging: An evolution or a revolution?

Chemicals & Materials

Plastic packaging, by generating more than 120 million tonnes of waste per year, is a primary contributor to the global plastic waste...

Market Opportunity for Gases used in Battery Recycling Process

Chemicals & MaterialsSustainability

Our client a leading global Industrial gas company wanted to understand the market opportunity of various gases used in the battery...

Chemical Recycling: Is it Optimal Solution for Most Plastic Problems?

Chemicals & MaterialsSustainability

About 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced every year and more than one-third of that is for single use. A small fraction of the...

Business Objectives

Some examples of diverse business objectives we have worked with our clients

Strategic

  • Which waste value-chains would be attractive from a short-to-mid term perspective for the supply of industrial gases based on overall market size and the role played by industrial gases?
  • Which chemical recycling technologies should be considered best-in-class both from a techno-commercial evaluation perspective?
  • What alternative sustainable materials (vegetal or animal waste i.e. corn, wheat, hemp, oat, shrimp waste, etc.) could be most promising to replace conventional plastics?

Tactical

  • How regulations in different countries would differ for different types of waste (plastic, glass, aluminum, etc.), and what would be the implications of regulations for packaging equipment supplier companies?
  • Which technologies are bubbling in the space of plastic waster pre-treatment (sorting/washing/cleaning, etc.) to accelerate the feasibility to embrace mechanical recycling?
  • Which would be the most relevant sustainability attributes to prepare the materiality matrix as per GRI requirements? (synthesize materiality data for direct peers, aspirational peers, suppliers, customers, etc.)

Operational

  • Which companies could be the potential partners for the development of environmentally accepted lubricants (base oil) and organic friction reduction additives for a global oleochemical company?
  • What is the current state of the art for dependable adhesives and which debonding technologies/applications are more dominant?
  • Which are various incremental and radical manufacturing/process/equipment innovations relevant for large float glass producers to reduce the energy consumption and CO2 footprint?