
Chemicals: US Deals 2025 outlook
We anticipate chemical deal activity to further rebound in the first half of 2025, as economic and political uncertainties ease in major countries.
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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We anticipate chemical deal activity to further rebound in the first half of 2025, as economic and political uncertainties ease in major countries.
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.
In this PwC report, we examine the implications of the transition from our current energy system, which is dominated by fossil-fuel molecules, into one based on renewable-powered electrons and fossil-carbon-free molecules.
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.