The ChemQuest Group has entered into a strategic partnership with PCI&KM, a leading industrial ecosystem platform for China’s coatings, inks, and adhesives sector. The partnership supports ChemQuest’s focus on the specialty chemicals market in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC).

Founded in 2013, PCI&KM has evolved from an industry media outlet into a comprehensive platform serving 120,000+ industry professionals. This new partnership bridges ChemQuest’s resources as a global think tank with PCI&KM’s local industrial ecosystem in China, aiming to reshape high-value industrial services for enterprises across APAC and unlock a new chapter of strategic empowerment.

Against the backdrop of global value chain restructuring, accelerated technological innovation, and sustainable development transitions, industry players in APAC are transitioning from cost leadership to value competition and from local operation to global layout. Longstanding pain points, including limited access to global strategic resources and challenges in localized international consulting, have constrained their growth.

Recognizing that future enterprise competition hinges on global strategic capacity, technological innovation, and ecological synergy, this collaboration is rooted in a shared vision. By integrating ChemQuest’s global methodologies, databases, and M&A expertise with PCI&KM’s local network, demand insights, and digital linkage, the two parties aim to build a one-stop, implementable, closed-loop, customer-centric strategic empowerment system for Chinese enterprises.

Leveraging their complementary strengths, the partners will focus on four critical areas to address common growth pain points for companies in the region:

• Globalization strategy and market entry support
• M&A and capital strategy
• Operational excellence and smart manufacturing upgrades
• Technology commercialization and innovation acceleration

For APAC specialty chemicals companies, the cooperation lowers the threshold for accessing global resources, delivers scenario-tailored solutions, and offers end-to-end services spanning strategy formulation to implementation. At the industry level, it marks a shift from one-way information dissemination and fragmented resource connection to in-depth strategic collaboration. It will propel China’s specialty chemicals industry toward high-quality development centered on strategic strength, tech innovation, and global resource integration.

“We are committed to true value co-creation,” said Liu Minghui, publisher of PCI&KM. “This partnership with ChemQuest advances our mission to ‘Connect Industry’s Future and Empower Enterprise Development.’ Moving forward, our clients will gain not just industry insights, but a strategic roadmap to win global competition.”

“The APAC market is the fastest-growing hub for global specialty chemicals,” said Daniel Murad, ChemQuest CEO. “We are impressed by PCI&KM’s industry expertise, robust ecosystem, and customer trust. We look forward to translating our 50 years of global experience into tangible growth drivers for local enterprises.”

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