Keyword: Chinese chemical industry

Strategy & Management

China’s Anti-pollution Clampdown

30.03.2018 - Since late 2016, the Chinese government has conducted a series of environmental inspections of production companies. These inspections have typically led to short-term closures of...

Sites & Services

Converging Developments?

25.11.2017 - In Europe as well as in China, chemical parks host the most important production plants of the chemical industry. Although the reasons for their emergence and their development...

Markets & Companies

Upgrading of the Chinese Chemical Industry

05.09.2017 - At a study session earlier this year attended by members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the...

Markets & Companies

Challenges Evolve In China

21.11.2016 - In the last 12 months, developments in China’s chemical industry have been somewhat contradictory, as illustrated by two different company statements made in September. On the one...

Strategy & Management

Role Reversal

04.12.2015 - China’s role within the global chemical industry has so far mostly been seen as an export market for global producers, not only for specialty chemicals but also for many basic...

Strategy & Management

The Chemical Quotient

28.10.2015 - What should be the key criteria when searching for the best location for a chemical investment? One might do worse than to use the guiding principle of famous bank robber Willie...

Markets & Companies

Measuring China’s Importance

07.10.2015 - In the past 10 years, we have gradually become accustomed to China’s economic rise. In some ways, we are no longer as surprised by it as we should be. I realized this recently when...

Markets & Companies

How 20 Years Have Transformed the Chemical Industry

06.05.2015 - For the second consecutive year, the Boston Consulting Group has conducted a total shareholder return (TSR) analysis of the chemical industry. The top 10 chemical companies have...