FRANKFURT: Germany’s vital chemicals sector is struggling with slow growth in emerging economies and political uncertainty in Europe, prompting the VCI industry federation to slash its forecast for 2016.

For the whole year, the federation predicts revenues will sink by 3.0 percent compared with 2015, to 183 billion euros.

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