Driving bio-based chemicals sales for a European petrochemicals major

Identifying a demand strategy for bio-based chemical products and derivatives.

A large European Petrochemical Company [confidential] asked Xynteo to identify its demand strategy for its sustainable chemical’s growth strategy exploring both circular and bio-based chemical products and derivatives.

In particular, our client asked Xynteo to lead the assessment of how they could catalyse market demand around tangible and customer-backed value proposition to grow sales of sustainable chemicals in line with their 2030 growth strategy. The key challenge was identifying segments where required premiums sat at 100-200%.

500KT

Unlocked as 2030 predicted volume demand for sustainable feedstock offtake through product-led costumer value propositions​

7

Tangible immediate to midterm interventions to take sustainable chemicals from niche to mainstream​

10+

Scalability ​opportunities identified and prioritised with a roadmap for activation

The initiative

The key objectives for the engagement:

  • Assessing 25+ product segments for sustainability relevance, market readiness, and willingness-to-pay​
  • Prioritising 5 target segments based on several metrics incl. volumes, revenues, and customer brands’ targets​
  • Conducting 50+ industry and customer brand interviews to identify entry point for sustainable feedstock​

Xynteo worked with the Executive Board and SVPs the base chemicals and polyolefin businesses to map out existing and future demand segments. Xynteo assessed 12 target-segments and prioritised 5 of them as medium high potential opportunities to catalyse sustainable offtake sales​.

Xynteo’s role

  • Market Analysis: of 30+ EU regulation and polices as well as modelling impact on 2030 volume demand of sustainable feedstock​
  • Design: customer backed value proposition in mass-market segments including for surfactants and polyolefin’s​
  • Strategic planning: developed seven interventions to grow demand in line with the client’s production growth plans in Europe

Strategic innovation:

  • Designed 7 immediate to mid-term interventions to grow demand beyond 2030, including identifying specific and ready retail partnerships.​

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