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.
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.
How a digital, operational, and skills transformation took Jubilant Ingrevia’s business to the next level
November 5, 2025 – A diverse, cross-functional McKinsey team helped a leading global organization in life science ingredients and specialty chemicals create and execute a sustainable roadmap for embedding digital and analytics into its DNA.
How Apple is helping unearth a path toward increasing the global use of circular materials
July 23, 2025 – 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
May 2, 2025 – How a top aluminium producer tapped the power of AI to transform the organization and scale impact across operations
Accelerating decarbonization across the farming supply chain
May 2, 2025 – How a top aluminium producer tapped the power of AI to transform the organization and scale impact across operations
An AI power play: Fueling the next wave of innovation in the energy sector
May 12, 2022 – How Vistra Corp. is partnering with McKinsey to improve efficiency and reduce emissions by using AI.
Featured tech tools & solutions
Energy Solutions
Access data-driven energy market analysis, benchmark performance and gain valuable business insight. Global Cloud Energy Insights, a Clobal Cloud 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
