With approximately 30% of employees in the industry being 50 years of age or older and due to retire within the next decade or so, chemical companies are on course to be affected by waves of retirement.
Despite the rate of technological change in the sector, the approaches to labour have remained largely unchanged.
Tom Cash, Director at automation parts supplier, Foxmere, explains how chemical companies can sustain digitalisation efforts while addressing the growing skills gap with artificial intelligence (AI).
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