Chemie- und Energiemarktforschungsunternehmen

• Wettbewerbsanalyse zur Lohnherstellung von Prepolymeren.
• Globale Produktpositionierungsstudie auf dem Markt für Überspannungsschutz.
• Durchführung einer weltweiten Informationsstudie zu Herstellern von Solarmodulen.
• Market structure study of the Phenolic Resin market in the US for a competitor analysis.
• Durchführung einer umfassenden globalen Studie zum Unternehmensimage unter Führungskräften der oberen Ebene, wichtigen Meinungsführern, Geschäftsführern, Anteilseignern und Regierungsvertretern für ein großes europäisches Öl- und Gasunternehmen.
• Marktstrukturstudie des Epoxidharzmarktes in den USA für eine Wettbewerbsanalyse.
• Wettbewerbsstudie zur Produktion eines Pestizids durch ein Unternehmen in Israel.
• Wettbewerbsprofil eines Herstellers anorganischer Chemikalien in Frankreich.
• Global monthly Newsletter that focused on its peer competitors in Europe, new products and applications in the plastics, glass, and rubber segments of the automotive industry.
• Marktstudie zu flammhemmendem ETP in China.
• Studie zur Marktgröße, zum Potenzial und zur Struktur der Verschlussindustrie in den USA.
• Studie zum Stand der Blisterverpackung im Vergleich zur Verpackung mit herkömmlichem Verschluss.
• Study for the global market opportunities in the auto chemicals market, covering the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the Benelux countries.
• Analyzed the market feasibility for enzymes in the textile industry in China by surveying over 100 plants, dye houses, and distributors throughout China.
• Marktintelligenzstudie zum Markt für Arbeitsplattenlösungen in den USA.
• Wettbewerbsstudie zur Solid-Surface-Industrie.
• Quantitative Markenimagestudie für industrielle Reinigungsprodukte in den USA und Europa nach Endverbrauchermarktsegmenten.
• Durchgeführte Marktgrößen- und Bewertungsstudie des US-Marktes für Phenolharze und ihrer Endverbrauchsmarktsegmente.
• Durchführung einer Studie zur Bewertung ausgewählter Polymer-/Oligomermischungen zur Herstellung spezieller Polyurethanschäume.
• Durchführung eines neuen Geschäftsentwicklungsprojekts für ein neues Sicherheitssteckdosengerät.
• Monatliches Tracking europäischer Chemiehersteller.
• Studie zur wettbewerbsfähigen Preisgestaltung von Düngemitteln in Australien und Frankreich.
• Vierteljährliche Berichte über die Wettbewerbsaktivitäten der Bromproduzenten in Japan.
• Marktstudie, die die Marktgröße für Desinfektionsmittel in Krankenhäusern und Hotels ermittelt hat.
• Strategisches Informationsaudit für einen weltweit führenden Hersteller von Spezialgläsern und verwandten anorganischen Materialien: Befragung der wichtigsten Führungskräfte des Unternehmens, Analyse des Informationsflusses und der Informationsquellen und Entwicklung eines BI/CI-Trackingsystems für das F&E-Personal im Unternehmen.
• Wettbewerbsprofil eines europäischen Konglomerats mit Interessen in den Bereichen Erdöl, Rohöl, Energie, Chemikalien und Finanzdienstleistungen.
• Strategisches Informationsaudit für ein großes Versorgungsunternehmen: Analyse des Dokumentenflusses, Beratung mit dem internationalen Marketingteam und Empfehlung des optimalen Business-Intelligence-Systems.
• Interviews mit CEOs von Chemie- und Energieunternehmen zu den strategischen Problemen ihrer Branchen.
• Strategisches Informationsaudit eines öffentlichen Versorgungsunternehmens, das zu einem BI/CI-Trackingsystem führte.
• Weltweite Studie zum Zustand der Versorgungsindustrien in Asien, Lateinamerika und Europa, einschließlich einer umfassenden Analyse der globalen Nachfrage, Privatisierung, strategischen Allianzen und Zukunft der Industrie auf Länderbasis.
• Durchführung einer Global Market Intelligence-Studie für ein Energiesystemunternehmen.
• Marktstudie darüber, wie viel Polyethylenrohr jährlich bei der unterirdischen Verlegung von Kommunikationskabeln in den USA verbraucht wird
• Durchführung einer globalen Studie zu den Anforderungen und der Wahrnehmung von Genset-Endbenutzern.
• Market Intelligence Study for a company in a chemical sector.
• Durchführung einer Marktintelligenzstudie für einen Hersteller von Salz und chemischen Produkten.
• Durchführung einer Business-Intelligence-Studie anhand von Experteninterviews mit Berufseinsteigern und Fachkräften der mittleren Managementebene großer Chemiekonzerne.
• Durchführung einer quantitativen Umfrage zur Erfassung und Analyse von Daten zu Wahrnehmungen und Erwartungen
• Durchführung von Experteninterviews, um Einblicke in den Solarmarkt, d. h. in die Markenidentität und Bekanntheit von Solarmodulen, zu gewinnen.
• Marktstudie und Vorgehen beim Bau eines Solarkraftwerks in Frankreich.
• Marktintelligenzprojekt zum globalen Markt für nukleare Druckbehälter.
• Durchführung einer Marktanalyse des Gasmembranmarkts in den USA und Japan.
• Durchführung einer Studie für nordamerikanische Pipeline-Unternehmen, eine Standard Systems-Studie
• In Bangkok ausführliche Interviews zum Thema Seife durchgeführt
• Durchgeführte Forschungsstudie zum Thema Autoöl.

Eine Auswahl unserer früheren und gegenwärtigen Kunden in der Chemie- und Energiebranche

• Öffentlicher Dienst in Arizona
• Chemiewerk Ashland
• Atochem
• Bayer
• Bourns
• Kompass Mineralien
• ConEdison
• Cummins
• Dow
• EI Du Pont de Nemours und Company
• Elf Aquitanien
• Exxon
• Genencor
• Georgia, Pazifik
• Kohler PETROBRAS
• Milliken und Company
• PETROBRAS
• Südliche Kompanie
• Die Clorox Company

Resume of Experience in Chemical and Energy Industries: How Leading Research Partners Build Decision-Grade Intelligence

Capital cycles in chemicals and energy reward operators who read demand signals before their competitors do. The discipline that separates winners is not access to data. It is the quality of primary intelligence that informs siting, feedstock, offtake, and capacity decisions worth billions.

A credible resume of experience in chemical and energy industries reflects depth across the full asset lifecycle: feedstock economics, plant-gate netbacks, downstream margin pools, and the regulatory machinery that governs each. The most useful research partners operate inside operator language, not adjacent to it.

What a Strong Resume of Experience in Chemical and Energy Industries Actually Demonstrates

Procurement teams at Dow, BASF, Shell, NextEra, and Air Liquide evaluate research firms against a specific bar. The question is whether the firm has interviewed plant managers, EPC contractors, traders, and offtake counterparties at scale, in the regions where capacity is being added. Secondary synthesis alone does not clear that bar.

Operator-grade work shows up in the vocabulary. Levelized cost of energy benchmarking against project IRR hurdles. Capacity factor assumptions stress-tested against curtailment risk in ERCOT and CAISO. Grid interconnection queue analysis that distinguishes signed interconnection agreements from speculative applications. PPA structuring that accounts for basis risk, shape risk, and hub-to-busbar adjustments.

In chemicals, the equivalent depth covers ethylene cracker margin spreads, naphtha versus ethane feedstock arbitrage, propylene chain integration economics, and the competitive position of US Gulf Coast assets versus Middle Eastern and Northeast Asian capacity. SIS International Research has found that operator interview programs in chemicals consistently surface margin signals six to nine months ahead of published industry indices, particularly in specialty intermediates where reported price data lags contract reality.

The Methodologies That Separate Decision-Grade Intelligence From Desk Research

The most defensible work in chemicals and energy combines four primary research modes. B2B expert interviews with technical buyers, plant operators, and EPC contractors. Competitive intelligence built from supply chain triangulation rather than annual reports. Market entry assessments that test corridor economics through actual offtaker conversations. Voice of customer programs across industrial accounts where switching costs are high and decision cycles run twelve to thirty-six months.

Each method answers a different question. Expert interviews reveal what operators are actually planning, not what they disclose publicly. Competitive intelligence maps installed base, contract expirations, and aftermarket revenue exposure. Market entry assessments validate whether announced capacity will reach FID. In structured expert interviews SIS has conducted with senior procurement and operations leaders across petrochemical, midstream, and renewables operators in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, the variance between announced project pipelines and projects with secured permits, financing, and EPC contracts has consistently exceeded forty percent.

Why Primary Research Outperforms Syndicated Data in Capital-Intensive Sectors

Syndicated reports compress information that buyers need disaggregated. A Fortune 500 industrial gas producer evaluating a hydrogen offtake corridor needs counterparty-specific intelligence on creditworthiness, ramp schedules, and contract structure. A utility scaling battery storage needs interconnection queue intelligence at the substation level. A specialty chemicals manufacturer assessing a bolt-on acquisition needs customer concentration data that no syndicated source publishes.

The work product looks different. Sourcing maps with named suppliers and contract status. Demand response design analysis tied to specific ISO markets. Distributed energy integration assessments that quantify behind-the-meter cannibalization risk for incumbent utilities. Renewable energy certificate market depth analysis tied to corporate procurement targets at Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta.

Sector Coverage That Reflects Operator Reality

A complete resume of experience in chemical and energy industries spans upstream, midstream, downstream, power generation, transmission and distribution, and the industrial end markets that drive demand. The cross-sector view matters because the boundaries are dissolving.

Source: SIS International Research

The sectors share a structural feature. Decisions are made by small, identifiable populations of technical buyers and operators. Reaching them requires recruiting infrastructure that most research firms do not maintain.

What Differentiated Research Partners Build Into Every Engagement

The strongest engagements share four characteristics. The recruiting frame is built from named target lists, not panel pulls. The interview protocols are designed by analysts who have read the relevant FERC orders, REACH dossiers, or IMO regulations. The synthesis maps findings back to the client’s specific decision: site selection, M&A target validation, pricing strategy, or capacity timing. The deliverable is structured for board-level review without translation.

SIS International applies this model through B2B expert interview programs, ethnographic research at industrial sites, and competitive intelligence engagements that combine field interviews with public filings analysis. The work for chemicals clients typically includes feedstock sourcing assessments, downstream margin analysis, and customer retention diagnostics across high-concentration accounts. Energy engagements range from market entry assessments for renewables developers entering new ISO markets to PPA benchmarking studies for corporate offtakers.

The SIS Operator-Proximity Framework

The framework underlying durable intelligence in these sectors has three layers. Operator proximity: how close the interview population sits to the actual decision being researched. Regulatory fluency: whether the analyst team can interpret FERC, EPA, ECHA, or equivalent rulings without translation. Capital cycle awareness: whether findings are timed to FID windows, capacity auctions, or contract renewal cycles.

Engagements that score high on all three layers produce intelligence that survives scrutiny from CFOs, technical due diligence teams, and board investment committees. Engagements that score on only one or two produce reports that get filed and forgotten.

How Senior Buyers Evaluate a Research Partner’s Track Record

VP-level decision makers at Fortune 500 chemicals and energy operators apply a consistent screen. Has the firm worked across the relevant geographies, including the corridors where the next capacity decisions will be made? Does the team include analysts with operator backgrounds, or only career consultants? Can the firm produce sample work that demonstrates depth in the specific sub-sector, whether that is olefins, polyurethanes, offshore wind, green hydrogen, or grid-scale storage?

SIS International’s proprietary research across more than 135 countries indicates that the highest-value engagements in chemicals and energy share a common structure: a defined capital decision, a named target population of fewer than 200 operators or buyers, and a six-to-twelve week primary research window timed to the client’s internal investment committee cycle. Work outside that structure tends to produce general market color rather than decision-grade input.

The resume that matters is not a list of logos. It is the demonstrated ability to deliver intelligence that changes a capital allocation decision. For a VP weighing a billion-dollar offtake commitment, a feedstock conversion, or an ISO market entry, the right research partner is the one whose track record reflects the specific decision being made.

Über SIS International

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