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Leveraging deep expertise across the Advanced Materials & Chemicals industry value chains for performance improvements and deal lifecycle, A&M delivers end-to-end solutions to optimize operations, drive growth, and maximize value throughout your business's transformation journey. Our Private Equity lens driven deal assessments and carve-outs are superior under value creation aspects due to our exceptional operations knowledge and expertise. 

Why A&M:

Our team has extensive experience across the entire Advanced Materials & Chemicals value chain, from large-cap diversified companies to advanced materials and specialty chemical players. We combine strong functional consulting skills with tools and methods specifically designed for the sector.

Performance Improvement
  • Operational Excellence and Cost Optimization:
    • Restructuring capital expenditure programs, including supplier negotiations
    • Implementing lean principles, standardized processes, and short-interval controls
    • Analysing overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and optimizing resource allocation
    • Improving yield performance and implementing smart behaviour protocols
    • Understanding site-wide utility costs and optimizing consumption
    • Centralizing spare parts management and streamlining procurement processes
    • Establishing maintenance excellence through optimized processes and clear roles
    • Enhancing performance management with KPI dashboards and reporting
  • Organizational Efficiency:
    • Assessing headcount by function and mapping key activities
    • Evaluating efficiency at corporate and business unit levels
    • Improving performance management processes and metrics
    • Benchmarking internally and externally
    • Streamlining processes, outsourcing non-strategic functions, and reducing redundancies
  • Growth Acceleration:
    • Aligning R&D and product development with commercial needs
    • Assessing competitive positioning across regions, applications, and products
    • Defining clear market requirements and developing product roadmaps
    • Formulating IP strategies to address gaps
    • Segmenting customer needs and creating targeted product development programs
Transformation
  • Transformation programs
  • Business Model Advisory
  • Interim management
  • Organizational rightsizing
  • Cost-out programs
M&A and Portfolio Management
  • Target screening
  • Deal modelling
  • Portfolio rationalization
  • Post-Merger Integration
  • Carve-Out Leadership
  • Activist Threat Response
  • Value Creation
  • Due Diligence
  • Valuation Services

 

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Deadline 2050: How Chemical Companies Can Navigate the Energy Transition

Chemical businesses are one of top three carbon-emitting industries, and among the most difficult to decarbonise. There is, however, growing pressure on companies to quickly find routes to a low carbon future. Emissions disclosure is becoming stricter, with the focus shifting to indirect upstream and downstream emissions (Scope 3), which for chemicals represent around 75% of their total emissions. 

The Road Ahead: Navigating the Multiple Challenges Facing European Chemical Companies

The European chemical industry is grappling with severe market headwinds as well as structural changes driven by net-zero demands.

Europe – A tough playground for chemical manufacturers

As the global chemical industry experiences unprecedented challenges, European manufacturers find themselves in the grip of a prolonged downturn. A sharp decline in market share, a plunge in business confidence, and soaring energy costs have cast a shadow over the once-steady growth.

Chinese Firms Urged to Adjust Supply Chains Amid Trade Barriers

The increasing likelihood of Trump's return to the White House ominously signals further disruptions to Chinese supply chains, many of which have already been impacted by recent geopolitical exchanges.

With A&M as your partner, you can confidently navigate the complexities of the Advanced Materials & Chemicals industry, from operational improvements to strategic growth initiatives. 

Contact us today to discover how we can help you unlock the full potential of your business.

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