Our strategy

Two strategic pillars driving innovation and market resilience

Syensqo’s strategy is built on two distinct but complementary pillars. Our Materials pillar includes our specialty polymers and composites businesses, while our Consumer and Resources pillar focuses on surface chemistry solutions. This approach helps us maintain a balanced, stable and flexible portfolio that minimizes our exposure to volatility in our end markets and other risks.

As a specialty business, we prioritize innovation, customer collaboration and value-driven solutions. Rather than competing on cost alone, we create value by aligning with key market trends, ensuring profitable and sustainable growth.

Sustainability is central to our strategy, our products and the way we engage with our employees and value chain. Our long-term success is intrinsically tied to the health of the broader social and environmental ecosystems we operate in.

Find out more in our 2024 Annual Integrated Report

Serving key markets

At the core of our strategy are key markets that inspire our innovation, product development and commercial efforts. Driven by key industry megatrends, these markets represent the greatest opportunities for sustainable growth, impact and long-term value creation. Concentrating our resources and expertise in these areas ensures our solutions are aligned with our customers’ evolving needs.

As an industry leader in advanced materials, we provide solutions that address critical performance and environmental challenges across the advanced mobility and defense, energy, electronics and healthcare markets. We offer the industry’s broadest portfolio of high-performance polymers, with solutions for the most demanding technical developments in cars, phones, airplanes and industrial manufacturing plants, and our high-performance thermoset and thermoplastic composite materials, adhesives and ablatives are used in the aerospace, defense and automotive industries.

Through our Consumer and Resources businesses, we offer surface chemistry solutions that enhance product and process performance in the consumer care, agriculture, coatings and mining markets. We leverage our core technology platforms, such as surfactants, monomers, natural polymers and green solvents, as well as our unique formulation and application capabilities, to create specialty ingredients and reagents, and we deliver value by developing new sustainable, high performance solutions, anticipating rapidly evolving regulatory and customer needs.

A growth system that helps us reach our full potential

Our growth system is a structured approach that steers our innovation, commercial and resourcing priorities toward reaching our full potential.

Our innovation pipeline provides a solid foundation for growth and our ways of working, governance and operating model are designed to reinforce this. Our Growth Dashboard allows us to monitor commercial opportunities, manage our innovation pipeline and assess our progress, and we optimize capital allocation by using a Sustainable Portfolio Management tool that allows us to evaluate growth projects and prioritize those with the highest growth potential and low environmental impact.

Our One Planet sustainability roadmap is also designed to drive sustainable growth, with each of our targets serving as strong business drivers.  

Innovation that’s strategically aligned with global megatrends

Syensqo’s businesses, product portfolio and innovation projects are strategically aligned with global megatrends and technology shifts. This sets us up for long-term growth while ensuring we contribute to a healthier planet. You can find out more about these megatrends and how they relate to our core markets on our Innovation and Investor Relations pages.