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Chemicals & Industrial Strategy

12 papers
IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESCHEMICAL INTELLIGENCE
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Under Siege: The Chemical Industry at a Crossroads
Energy, regulation, AI: the structural pressures on global chemical competitiveness.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESTRADE & GEOPOLITICS
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The Transatlantic Recalibration
Four scenarios for European industry, trade, and security — facts, no opinions.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESREFINING & PETROCHEM
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Catalyst Liability
Protecting the balance sheet from process failures: contracts, risk sharing, new technologies.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESSPECIALTY CHEMICALS
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The Tri-Polar Reckoning
The structural reset of global specialty chemicals: capacity, capex bubbles, skills gaps.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESSTRATEGY
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Who Owns the Customer?
Formulators vs. molecule makers: why value capture is shifting downstream.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESCAPITAL ALLOCATION
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The €50bn Misallocation
Why European chemical capex since 2020 won’t earn its cost of capital.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESINDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS
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The Sulfuric Squeeze
How a dual supply shock made sulfuric acid strategic.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESEUROPEAN CHEMICALS
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The Broader Reckoning
Energy, geopolitics, regulation, demand: the macro forces behind Europe’s chemical crisis.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESSUSTAINABILITY
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The Sustainability Audit
Rhetoric, regulation, and the measurable reality of the green economy.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESMACRO & POLICY
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The Disorderly Decline
Europe’s deindustrialization: what the chemical and automotive reckonings reveal together.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESPROCUREMENT
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The End of Just-in-Time
Why chemical procurement is rebuilding for resilience, not efficiency.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESINDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
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The Recovery Assumption
The recovery that never came — and what planning on false assumptions costs.
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Agro, Feed & Pet Food

5 papers
IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESPETFOOD
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The Global Petfood Industry
Growth, complexity, and premiumization in the global pet food market.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESFEED ADDITIVES
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Methionine and the China Dependency
How feed additives got caught in the geopolitical crossfire.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESAQUA FEED
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Aquafeed's Protein Gap
Mapping supply volatility to alternative protein sources.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESANIMAL NUTRITION
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Feed Enzyme Commoditization
The feed enzyme market between consolidation and price erosion.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESAGROCHEMICALS
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Agrochemicals
Consolidation, regulation, and the new geography of crop protection.
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Pharma & Biotech

2 papers
IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESPHARMA OUTSOURCING
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Future of CDMO Selection
Beyond price and capacity: selection criteria for the next decade.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESBIOTECH
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The Classification Game
How classification decisions shape markets before products ever reach them.
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Personal Care & Materials

2 papers
IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESMATERIALS
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Silicone Substitution ROI
The financial penalty of delayed reformulation in 2026.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESPERSONAL CARE
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Personal Care's Silicone Reckoning
REACH, California, consumer pressure: what it means for formulators.
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Plastics

3 Papers
IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESPLASTICS
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The Great Plastics Reset – Part I
The geographic re-basing of global plastics production: capacity, capital flows, consequences.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESPLASTICS
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The Great Plastics Reset – Part II
Circularity, PPWR, PFAS, and digital product passports: the regulatory re-mapping of the plastics industry.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESPLASTICS
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Europe's Plastics Industry at the Cliff Edge
How many plants Europe still has, whether they run economically, where the capital went — and what would have to change. The industrial base in numbers.
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AI & Automation

5 papers
IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESANALYTICAL SCIENCE
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AI in Analytical Chemistry
Smarter data, faster decisions: AI in the analytical lab.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESPROCESS CHEMISTRY
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AI in Process Chemistry
Reality vs. hype: what AI actually delivers in process chemistry today.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESLAB AUTOMATION
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Automation in Chemical R&D
From robotics to closed-loop discovery.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESAI INTELLIGENCE
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The AI Inflection
Three years that changed everything — what it means for industry, jobs, and education.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESAGENTIC AI
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Agentic AI – Reality Check
Enterprise reality vs. hype: security, GDPR, implementation.
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Other Sectors

6 papers
IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESPACKAGING
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Navigating the Packaging Industry
Complexity, compliance, and the race for sustainable solutions.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESAUTOMOTIVE
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The Road Ahead
Electrification, geopolitics, and the race to reinvent the global automotive industry.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESB2B MEDIA
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Reach Without Return
Why B2B thought leadership on LinkedIn generates reach — and rarely returns. A measurement framework.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESINDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
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Double Down
The squeeze is real – but cutting the innovation core to fund the quarter is still the wrong answer. What doubling down on materials, AI and people looks like.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESB2B MARKETING
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Metrics Without Money
B2B marketing has replaced measurement with vocabulary. What KPIs actually mean, why the numbers don't connect to revenue, and what still works.
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IMPIMP INTELLIGENCE SERIESPOLICY
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Germany at the Inflection Point
Economic stagnation, institutional friction and a reform agenda for renewal. A paper addressed to those who govern: listen.
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