Future Materials Group publishes market update report for advanced materials sector
Half-year review examines the advanced material sector’s response to macroeconomic headwinds, supply chain challenges and geopolitical concerns.
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Advanced materials M&A specialist Future Materials Group (FMG, Cambridge, U.K.) has released the second issue of its “Market Update for the Advanced Materials Sector,” a half-year review with a focus on how advanced materials companies are responding to macroeconomic headwinds, supply chain challenges and geopolitical concerns. (See first 2022 report, “FMG releases market analysis on advanced materials”).
Following FMG’s definition of the advanced materials sector, the report is divided into two sections. In the first section, Financial Review, FMG analyzes how advanced material companies have performed financially during the uncertainty of the first half of 2022, including tracking mergers and acquisitions (M&As), inventory levels, reinvestment rates and market valuations compared to commodity chemical companies and the manufacturing sector as a whole.
The second section, Market Commentary, looks more closely at company strategies in response to a recession. For example, raw materials being cited as the largest contributor of cost increases, the section displays a range of metallic and non-metallic commodities used by advanced materials, and how underlying causes such as inflation and price increases have affected each over a four-year timeframe. FMG also offers commentary on how supply
chain uncertainty is driving changes in the market and in the advanced material sector’s geographic landscape, further explored through electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing.
The report is free and available for download here from FMG’s site.
