
Chemicals: US Deals 2025 midyear outlook
The chemicals sector entered 2025 with strong M&A momentum, and chemical companies remain focused on realigning portfolios amid uncertainty.
Companies in the chemical sector are currently undergoing serious changes which will affect their way of doing business. The Ukrainian chemical sector faces key challenges such as inadequate infrastructure facilities, high and unstable costs of basic raw materials like natural gas and oil, high cost of capital and need for technological modernisation of its facilities.
All of these challenges are combining to make this a critical time for the chemical sector, the health and wellbeing of which is key to the fortunes of the domestic and global economies.
The key success factors for the chemicals in Ukraine are the use of advanced technology, strong research capabilities and development of domestic capacity to reduce dependence on imported raw materials.
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The chemicals sector entered 2025 with strong M&A momentum, and chemical companies remain focused on realigning portfolios amid uncertainty.
As the chemical industry emerges from the economic shock of the pandemic, one area of cost-cutting that it may stand to benefit from is to further tackle SG&A costs.
Cost reductions in the production of renewable electricity and hydrogen and in transport technologies will result in an increase in the number of countries where green hydrogen can be produced competitively and play a critical role in decarbonisation economies worldwide.
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