Lux for Innovation Leaders: Chemicals
Client Priorities
We are precision focused on solving for your most critical innovation initiatives.
Sustainable Products and Packaging
Lux Research helps innovation leaders in chemical manufacturing devise product strategies that improve the sustainability of existing products and create strategies for new eco-friendly products. By focusing on the emerging technologies that make a real difference, cutting through the noise of overhyped innovations, and tailoring our analysis to their specific needs.
Materials Needs Discovery
Novel Business Models
Decarbonization
Digital Innovation and Operations
Policy and Regulations
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How We Help Clients
Lux is uniquely positioned to provide innovation leaders in the chemicals industry answers to their questions about sustainability and business: what emerging technologies are poised to make a leap forward? Which innovators are worth investing in? What changes do we need to make to our product roadmap to successfully go to market or comply with upcoming policies?
Lux experts utilize AI-enabled patterns with unique proprietary models and primary research to assess technologies, innovators, and consumer insights. This robust combination results in our singular voice of realism in the market that our clients trust.
Client Outcomes
We fuel innovation leaders’ tech scouting and improve the performance of their innovation discovery process.
We help clients meet net-zero and sustainability goals desired by innovative business leaders and understand the decarbonization of other industries.
We identify new business models and product opportunities for growth.
We help mitigate the critical business risks from changes in the technology or policy landscape, as well as from competitors getting ahead.
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Keep up with innovation trends and early-stage technologies
- AI-enabled expert generated insights
- Innovator Assessments with scorecards
- Company indices
- Industry trend analysis
Understand novel technologies in detail with AI-enabled primary research
- Market opportunities
- Consumer insights
- Policy and Frameworks
- Technology deep dives
Interpret business impacts with trusted and actionable insights via the “Lux Take”
- Innovation Strategy
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Partnership and Acquisition Target Identification
- Decision Frameworks
Hear From Our Clients
When we evaluate our innovation team, those who use Lux insights on a regular basis demonstrate higher performance and better results than those who did not.
Access to the Lux platform and its analyst has made me much smarter and has helped increase my influence and value to the company.
Trendy topics; data-driven, tailored focus on request; convincing experts; and absolutely adequate client engagement – TOP!
I presented your idea about sustainability and innovation at the Summit and of all the slides in my deck, everybody noticed the slide you sent me. They all sat up and started taking pictures.
This is wonderful. If Lux wants to invite me to join your Board, I would be delighted to.
Even this first, short call….I found valuable. I was excited when I first heard about this service. After this first call, I’m even more excited.
Client Story
Identifying potential short-term offtakers and new emerging markets for a biobased intermediate chemical product
Challenge
The client had a large surplus of a biobased intermediate chemical to sell on the market or take a loss on inventory and needed to find immediate offtakers as well as identify more stable markets to sell into. The client asked Lux to think through all the potential new uses of the biobased intermediate within a 1–2-step chemical synthetic pathway.
Solution & Value
Lux identified contact information for more than 50 potential offtakers for the biobased intermediate; the companies identified operate across various industries from fragrance to solvents to surfactants. In addition, Lux identified three potential novel opportunities in emerging chemical synthetics leading to new markets: green bio-jet fuel, clean polycarbonate, and synthetic cannabidiol oil.
Top Questions your industry peers are asking
Inquiry is a 50-minute virtual conversation between a licensed client member and a Lux expert. During this two-way consultative exchange, the Lux expert shares insights and acts as an advisor for the member’s strategic thinking or decision-making process.
Lux experts are having such conversations with clients every day to help them understand various aspects of technology innovation. Key questions innovation leaders in the chemicals industry are asking about include:
Can Lux share an overview of regional considerations for plastic waste recycling?
What are emerging regulations on PFAS, and which industries are these regulations going to impact in the more immediate future and how?
Could Lux provide an update on CCU technologies, with an emphasis on CO₂ to chemicals?
Can Lux provide a landscape of the hydrogen storage space and materials needs, including coatings and sealants?
Are you working on similar questions? We can help.
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our unique know-how
What makes Lux special is our ability to link insights across industries, scientific domains, and cultures to give you a complete interdisciplinary and cross-industry perspective.
