Jonny Goyal Executive Director, Circular Plastics & Chemicals Sustainability
Chemical Market Analytics by OPIS
Mr. Goyal is an Executive Director with the Circular Plastic Service team in Chemical Market Analytics.
Mr. Goyal is the Executive Director of Chemical Market Analytics (by OPIS, A Dow Jones Company), where he is responsible for the technology research & analysis for the Circular Plastics business for the Base Chemicals & Plastics group.
In this role, he directs the Research & Insight activities for the technical assessment, with a focus on circularity. He provides customized strategic analysis and techno-commercial assessments for clients in the chemical process industry, with a focus on new and emerging technologies. He leads the team in preparing technical models for plastic, mechanical, and chemical recycling projections, assessing technology scale-up issues, benchmarking, including a scorecard for licensor comparison, technology scan, and maintaining the recyclers database. Special focus involves Techno-economic evaluations of different technologies (pyrolysis, gasification, depolymerization, solvent dissolution, mechanical recycling, etc.), Carbon emissions analysis (well-head to pellet, waste plastic to plastics whole value chain), Capital spending, material balance & allocation approach, MRF, and PCR models for price forecasting of recyclates.
Mr. Goyal joined Chemical Market Analytics by OPIS on June 1, 2022, following the acquisition of IHS Markit Base Chemicals, having joined IHS Markit in September 2014 as Principal Research Analyst in the prestigious Process Economic Program (formerly called SRI Consulting). Mr. Goyal has over 19 years of experience in chemical process engineering, research and analysis, EPC process industry, process design and project management.
Mr. Goyal holds a Certificate of Business Excellence from the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his Bachelor of Technology degree in Chemical Engineering from India. He is a lifetime member of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE), Kolkata, India.