Kemira and DuPont Nutrition and Biosciences have joined forces to develop and commercialize new, tailored biomaterials and bio-based chemicals based on DuPont’s biotechnology platform, which is at the advanced pilot stage and ready to be scaled up globally.
“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.
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.
