Your advisory for chemistry and life sciences
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Are you expecting experts who understand your challenges?
Then let us introduce ourselves.
ChemAdvice is a team of experienced senior management consultants from the chemical industry who find well-founded, industry-specific solutions for your company.
We provide you with clear statements and reality-tested strategies from proven industry experts who know your challenges from their own professional experience.
With our advice, we focus on the chemical industry, life sciences and related industries. We also assist investors and companies in these sectors in Merger & Acquisition processes (M&A).
“ChemAdvice was founded over 20 years ago to solve the challenges of the future with our customers in the chemical industry and life sciences. Many feel called upon to do so - we have the expertise, experience and methods to deliver.”
Our services
This is how we help our clients in the chemical and life science industries:
Strategy
We develop tailor-made strategies for companies that face up to the challenges of dynamic markets. Our expertise enables you to create new future prospects in a changing environment.
Operations
We help you to systematically identify, analyze and effectively implement risks and opportunities in order to fully exploit your operational potential.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Our detailed analysis of the positioning and future viability of companies or business units helps you to make a well-founded assessment of the strategic opportunities and risks of M&A projects and to make well-informed decisions.
The team
Experts with experience — your competitive advantage
Dr. Volker Schlüter
Managing Partner
Specialty Chemicals, Operations
Bayer, TriPlan, Arthur D. Little
Dr. Arthur Steinmetz
Managing Partner
Food ingredients
Nutrinova, Celanese, Hoechst
Dr. Hubert Bader
Equity Partner
Fine & Specialty Chemicals
Clariant, Hoechst
Dr. Lutz Krafft
Equity Partner
Agro- & Biosciences
Bayer, AgrEvo
Dr. Wolfgang Ebertz
Equity Partner
Manufacturing & SHE
Clariant, Hoechst
Paul Miller
Partner
Resins & Intermediates
Bakelite, Witco, Schering
Dr. Monika Engel-Bader
Equity Partner
Materials, Specialty Chemicals
Rockwood, Ticona, Hoechst
Dr. Jan Verdenhalven
Senior Advisor
Carbon & Composites
Dolan, SGL, Hoechst, McKinsey
Dr. Joachim Hackenbruch
Senior Advisor
Specialty & Fine Chemicals
WeylChem, Clariant, Hoechst
Dr. Andreas Lotz
Senior Advisor
Food Ingredients
Nutrinova, Celanese, Hoechst
Hans Chen
Chief Representative China
Dr. Kai Pflug
Senior Advisor China
Dentsply, DeTrey
Stratley, Arthur D. Little
With our industry-experienced experts, ChemAdvice has been offering management consulting with a clear industry focus since 2003. Our company is based in Wiesbaden, Germany in the Rhine-Main area.
We differ significantly from traditional consultancies:
The unique ChemAdvice approach combines the methodical expertise of senior consultants with the international industrial and management experience of our senior advisors.
With this proven concept, ChemAdvice offers a unique consulting service. Our consultants know your challenges, are immediately on topic and are trustworthy sparring partners on equal level.
All partners and senior advisors have decades of management experience from the chemical industry and life sciences. Another special feature is our expertise in China. Some of our colleagues live and work in China and offer direct insights into the Chinese market.
Best business consultant
Awarded for six years in a row as "best consultant"
Your benefits
ChemAdvice helps you to reposition your company.
Chemical and life science companies are acutely challenged.
Climate change and increasing sustainability requirements are questioning established chemical value chains. Global inequalities and geopolitical conflicts threaten globalization and make access to markets and raw materials difficult. Volatile prices and rising costs for energy and raw materials are aggravating the situation. New competitors from growth regions are putting established companies under pressure, while increasing regulatory requirements in Europe are further restricting room for manoeuvre.
ChemAdvice provides solutions.
- Analysis of your company's initial strategic situation
- Creating transparency in changing markets or with regard to disruptive technologies
- Development of corporate and business strategies as well as sustainability or ESG strategies
- Performance improvement and operational excellence programs
- Change management to implement concepts into practice
- Industry experience in your M&A projects
Our extensive chemical industry, concept development and sustainability expertise makes the difference.
These are your benefits:
- Transparency about changing market and competition requirements
- Clarity about risks that pose a risk to business
- Identification of urgent need for action
- Definition of a clear corporate or business strategy with unique selling points
- Align your business for the future
- Sustainable implementation ensures competitive success
- Convincing for investors, employees and the public
Together with us, you will overcome current challenges and create sustainable benefits for the future.
Karin Thomann
Your initial contact
Contact
We would be pleased to have the opportunity to discuss your questions.
Get in touch with us now.
Telephone: +49 611 - 945 84 86-0
Email: info@chemadvice.com