Strict control on costs and their continuous reduction is the critical success-factor for any company at this hour. Chemical intermediates play a key role in the reduction of costs. While oil prices will continue to rise in the long run, the individual company’s capacity to influence these prices favorably are limited. One alternative is thus to walk down new avenues and alter the manufacturing route so that saving effects actually are significant and do make a difference.

Driven by various factors, certain technologies in the chemical industry move away faster from their traditional manufacturing sites than others. More and more both critical and uncritical steps are outsourced and made in places like China and India. While China evolves more as the producer of mass products, India has clear advantages in successfully dealing with intellectual property and its ability to think complex and "out of the box“. One reason why you find i-CHESS in India.