new no normal: making sense of the puzzle

• Covid-19 pandemic drives race for non-woven and latex personal protective equipment. • Sanitization boosts demand for isopropyl alcohol (IPA) and biocides. • Hygiene concerns to liﬅ demand for cleaning chemicals as hospitality sectors re-open. • With restaurants closed, home cooks turn to prepared foods that depend on additives for taste, color, and shelf stability. • Global consumption of vitamin C soars as consumers seek immune system support. Health and wellbeing • Electrification creates surge in battery raw materials and rare earths. • Wind and solar breathe life into new engineering materials, polymers & lubricants. • Hydrogen economy floats new investments. • Fuel economy drives lightweight high-performance thermoplastics. • Refiners scale up production of renewable diesel to meet demand for low-carbon fuels. Net zero carbon and the energy transition • Work and play in the new normal sparks demand for electronic chemicals. • Home improvements build demand for paints and coatings. • Health-conscious consumers seek out natural low-calorie sweeteners and other natural ingredients. Lifestyle changes  New No Normal: Making Sense of the Puzzle Top disruptors with the potential to transform specialty chemicals • Plastics circularity. • Biodegradable polymers surge as bans on introduction of single-use plastic products. • Clean and green surfactants seek renewable carbon feedstocks. • Greenhouse gas reactions reshape the fluorocarbon industry. New technologies and digitalization • Technology provides new and enhanced interface to understanding consumer demands. • Biotechnology enables the economical large-scale production of sweeteners occurring in trace amounts in nature. • Internet of Things drives digitalization and smart products that spur growth of electronic chemicals. ihsmarkit.com The IHS Markit Specialty Chemical Insights team tracks and analyses these disruptive truths and provides insight and analysis that enable you to piece the puzzle together and build a winning strategy. Find out more about Specialty Chemical Insights. The sustainability agenda 683150794-0421-MT Copyright © 2021 IHS Markit. All Rights Reserved Net zero carbon and the energy transition The sustainability agenda Health and wellbeing Lifestyle changes  New technologies and digitalization IHS Markit Specialty Chemicals Insight

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Page 1: New No Normal: Making Sense of the Puzzle

• Covid-19 pandemic drives race for non-wovenand latex personal protective equipment.

• Sanitization boosts demand for isopropylalcohol (IPA) and biocides.

• Hygiene concerns to lift demand for cleaningchemicals as hospitality sectors re-open.

• With restaurants closed, home cooks turn toprepared foods that depend on additives fortaste, color, and shelf stability.

• Global consumption of vitamin C soars asconsumers seek immune system support.

Health and wellbeing

• Electrification creates surge in battery rawmaterials and rare earths.

• Wind and solar breathe life into newengineering materials, polymers &lubricants.

• Hydrogen economy floats new investments.

• Fuel economy drives lightweighthigh-performance thermoplastics.

• Refiners scale up production of renewablediesel to meet demand for low-carbon fuels.

Net zero carbon and the energy

transition

• Work and play in the new normal sparksdemand for electronic chemicals.

• Home improvements build demand forpaints and coatings.

• Health-conscious consumers seek outnatural low-calorie sweeteners and othernatural ingredients.

Lifestyle changes 

New No Normal: Making Sense of the Puzzle Top disruptors with the potential to transform specialty chemicals

• Plastics circularity.

• Biodegradable polymers surge as bans onintroduction of single-use plastic products.

• Clean and green surfactants seek renewablecarbon feedstocks.

• Greenhouse gas reactions reshape thefluorocarbon industry.

New technologies and digitalization

• Technology provides new and enhancedinterface to understanding consumer demands.

• Biotechnology enables the economicallarge-scale production of sweeteners occurringin trace amounts in nature.

• Internet of Things drives digitalization and smartproducts that spur growth of electronic chemicals.

ihsmarkit.com

The IHS Markit Specialty Chemical Insights team tracks and analyses these disruptive truths and provides insight and analysis that enable you to piece the puzzle together and build a winning strategy. Find out more about Specialty Chemical Insights.

The sustainability

agenda

Net zero carbon and the energy transition

The sustainability agenda

Health and wellbeing

Lifestyle changes 

New technologies and digitalization IHS Markit

Specialty Chemicals Insight

http://www.ihsmarkit.com

https://ihsmarkit.com/products/specialty-chemicals-insights.html

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