In the section we provide some of the latest feature articles from our hard copy directory and submissions from within the global speciality chemicals marketplace.
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Market expansion services, rather than traditional distribution, is the best outsourcing model for speciality chemicals companies aiming for growth in Asia, say DKSH and Roland Berger Associates Companies these days want to focus on core competencies and farm out everything that others can do more efficiently. This is nothing new. But what started out as the outsourcing of isolated processes,...
Dr Dieter Bölzing of J&M Management Consulting looks at what the chemicals industry can learn from supplychain champions in other sectors Supply chains in the chemicals industry are characterised by some very specific challenges, which make them different to those ofother industries: they are affected by governmental control on product substances, dangerous goods transport regulations, high volume commodity transportation, specific...
Nigel Hayes, vice president sales - EMEA and regional vice president – North at Univar, explains how the chemical distribution industry has dealt with the financial crisis and looks to the future.