Editor’s comment: Preparing for post-Covid-19 scenario

Editor’s comment: Preparing for post-Covid-19 scenario

Business leaders and industry bodies are currently working overtime from digital platforms exploring a roadmap to bring the industry back to a vibrant mode within a reasonable time-frame, post-Covid-19. Recently, we have published many insights in this direction. In this issue of the magazine, there is an interesting outlook in this direction from Dr Abdulwahab Al-Sadoun, secretary general, GPCA, elaborating on how GCC chemical industry must plan and prepare for the post-Covid period.According to Dr Al-Sadoun, like the chemical industry globally, the GCC petrochemical sector has felt the strain from the Covid-19 pandemic in the form of plunging petrochemical prices, disruptions on the Chinese market, travel and export restrictions, as well as collapsing demand due to a slowdown in key end-user industries.