Why this transaction is less about ownership and more about supply-demand dynamics, regional competitiveness, and where value is moving across engineering thermoplastics.A business generating approxim... Read More
Why 2026 marks the beginning of a structurally different polyurethane market rather than the end of another downcycle.For much of the first half of 2026, the narrative around polyurethane looked encou... Read More
India is now the world's second-largest footwear producer, manufacturing close to 3 billion pairs a year and accounting for roughly 12% of global output. For most of that history the industry has been... Read More
Sustainability is now the thing that shapes packaging decisions, and paper shows it most clearly. Plastic ran the show for decades. It was cheap, tough, and worked for almost anything. That is changin... Read More
A Prismane Consulting perspective on specialty polymers, supply chain regionalization, and India's emergence as a global MedTech manufacturing hub.For much of the past two decades, the global supply c... Read More
Europe's packaging rulebook has changed. The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2025/40, better known as PPWR, entered into force in February 2025 and becomes applicable across ... Read More
At Prismane Consulting, one question comes up in nearly every conversation we have with coating manufacturers, raw material suppliers, technology developers and investors.When will bio-based coatings ... Read More
In May last year, we asked whether the chlor-alkali challenges in East India would soon find resolution (read the original analysis here). Two threads of the same story have been running through our r... Read More
Extended Producer Responsibility: What It Actually Is, and How It Actually WorksExtended Producer Responsibility (EPR) gets projected around as a sustainability buzzword, but most explanations stop at... Read More
The Growing Strategic Importance of Used Cooking OilAs governments, industries, and consumers increasingly prioritize sustainability, Used Cooking Oil (UCO) has emerged as one of the most valuable was... Read More
