Digitalization in Chemical Distribution – a Reality Check!?
Over the last few years there has been a lot of talk about digitalization, also in chemical distribution.
Chemistry
Chemical Distribution 4.0
“68% of chemicals worth $76 billion will be sold online within the next five years.” This was the message from leading market research institutes and consultants in 2000, at the start of the new millennium.
Start-ups Accelerate Innovation
Virtually all areas of our lives would be inconceivable without products that come directly or indirectly in contact with chemical production: It affects the modern office environment, our private lives and thus our well-being and life fulfilment including health, leisure and personal protection.
ChembidX Offers Online Marketing for Chemicals
The German startup Chembid, which operates a metasearch engine and online platform for chemicals, is extending their service with the launch of the new in-house marketing agency ChembidX.
Who is the Future “Chemazon”?
The traditional business model of chemical distributors is currently fundamentally challenged on one side by digitally enabled activities from principals, logistics providers, customers, start-ups, larger chemical distributors or combinations of smaller players, who try their own online channels, and on the other side by general e-retailers like Alibaba or Amazon, who explore to enter also into chemical & material categories.
Peter Greven acquires additives division of manufacturer Norac
Effective 30 of September 2017, Peter Greven Group, a manufacturer of oleochemical derivatives, has formed Norac Additives and acquired the assets of the additives division of US company Norac.
Service Is at the Core of Our Business Model
“Harke Group started very early, around end of the 90s, with the process of digital transformation, so that we can meanwhile look back to almost two decades of experience in this area. We therefore see for us rather chances than risks in it.
