Energy & Materials
Enabling organizations across the energy, materials, and natural resources sectors
Our Global Energy & Materials Practice deploys deep industry expertise, functional capabilities, and proprietary benchmark and data solutions across the converging energy, materials, and natural resources supply chains to help create substantial and long-lasting value for stakeholders.
Guided by advanced analytics and the power of our global team, we bring distinctive industry perspectives to sectors that support today’s critical infrastructure ecosystems. We are proud to have partnered with hundreds of major industry players as the leading and most integrated adviser on strategic and functional transformations.
What we offer
Agriculture
Driving growth and transformation across the food value chain.
Chemicals
We help chemical companies leverage artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to unlock sustainable growth and operational excellence.
Electric Power & Natural Gas
Discover how we help clients in the energy industry rethink strategies, build capabilities, and improve performance for sustained, competitive advantage.
Engineering, Construction & Building Materials
We help clients make bold strategic decisions to accelerate growth, enabled by transformative ideas, effective execution, and deep capability-building.
Metals & Mining
We help metals and mining companies accelerate growth by leveraging AI and advanced analytics to shape their strategy, boost productivity, and drive innovation.
Oil & Gas
Learn how we help our clients develop strategies to manage risk, improve performance, and build lasting capabilities.
Packaging & Paper
We help our clients refine strategies and business models to improve products, operations, and organizational effectiveness.
Latest Insights
Report
Global Energy Perspective 2025
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Geopolitical uncertainty, shifting policies, and increasing demand for power are reshaping the energy landscape. In this year’s...
Report
Global Materials Perspective 2025
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Materials profitability and cash positions were strong in 2024. Looking ahead, success likely requires capturing growth while...
Article
How to capture the next S-curve in commodity trading
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In the past few years, commodity traders focused on taking advantage of high volatility. Today, amid leaner industry margins,...
Featured case studies
How Apple is helping unearth a path toward increasing the global use of circular materials
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As the need for recycled materials continues to grow, Apple worked with McKinsey to understand how expanding circular value chains could help meet the demand.
Emirates Global Aluminium: Leading the industry with AI-driven transformation
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How a top aluminium producer tapped the power of AI to transform the organization and scale impact across operations
Freeport-McMoRan: Unlocking new mining production through AI transformation
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Freeport-McMoRan, one of the world’s leading mining companies, faced a dilemma. To maintain growth in its Americas copper operations it needed to increase production. Freeport believed the answer lay in improving operations with advanced analytics.
Featured tech tools & solutions
Energy Solutions
Access data-driven energy market analysis, benchmark performance and gain valuable business insight. McKinsey Energy Insights, a McKinsey Company venture, gives clarity to the energy sector.
MineSpans
Helps managers and investors make strategic, operational, and financial mining decisions by providing them with the most reliable cost curves and supply, and demand models in the world
ACRE
Helps food companies, governments, investors, and agriculture players make better pricing, crop selection, and sales and marketing decisions
Global Leaders
Jukka Maksimainen
Helsinki
Leads the firm’s work in global energy and materials using experience in serving natural-resources companies, machinery...
Humayun Tai
New York
Leads our Electric Power & Natural Gas Practice globally, serving major utility and energy technology clients across a variety...