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Strategic Analyses
- Wood sourcing plan for a pulp mill in Northern Europe incl. mill gate price analysis
- Impact assessment of a forestry strategy plan in Finland
- Evaluation of forest development strategy in a Southeast Asian country
- WACC analysis of Latin American forest assets
- Wood availability in Finland
Business Assessments
- Wood availability analysis for a pulp mill in Northern Europe
- Wood availability analysis for a pulp & paper mill in Northern Europe
- Wood cost calculation in Finland and Northern Europe
- Evaluation of biomass availability and price in Finland
Strategic Analyses
- Sawmill acquisition operations in Baltics
- Non-core wood processing business divestiture in Nordics
- Forest company divesture of sawmilling business in Baltics
Business Assessments
- Plywood market overview and cost competitiveness
- Market analysis of wood chips
- Plywood market expansion strategy
- Overview of the North American sawnwood market
- Selected Processed Wood Product Market in Europe
- Pellet market opportunity in Central European Market
Investment Opportunities
- Evaluation of acquisition targets in Latin America (plywood/panelboard)
- Transaction negotiations regarding a panelboard business in Uruguay
- Transaction negotiations regarding a panelboard business in Ecuador
- Transaction negotiations for a plywood and panelboard producer in Brazil
- Acquisition analysis of a European panelboard producer
- Acquisition analysis of a Nordic panelboard producer
Strategic Analyses
- Second opinion of a pulp strategy
- Strategic overview of pulp market opportunities in fluff pulp
- Dissolving wood pulp market entry opportunity for a potential producer
- Site selection for a greenfield pulp mill in Eastern Europe
- Second opinion on growth strategy for VSF manufacturer
- Impact of Shanghai Stock Exchange on pulp market pricing
- Market overview of white recycled fiber in Europe
- Impact of Covid-19 to the forest industry businesses
Operations Improvement
- Maximizing the production of a Western European pulp mill
- Several studies & analyses for conversion from paper grade to dissolving grade
- Maximizing the production of a Nordic pulp mill
- Kraft-pulp mill conversion - planning and project evaluation in Europe
- Industrial solutions for pulp and paper mills' efficiency improvement
- Second opinion on sourcing strategy
Business Assessments
- Feasibility studies of different pulp mills in Europe and Latin America (BSKP, BEKP and DVP)
- Evaluation of dissolving pulp business opportunity for a paper-grade pulp producer
- Global unbleached kraft pulp market review
- BCTMP market opportunity assessment
- Impact of Chinese P&P restructuring on fiber demand
- Global overview of fluff pulp markets with end use analysis
Investment Opportunities
- Acquisition of North American pulp company
- Acquisition of North American specialty pulp company
- Sales of innovative technology for VSF manufacturer
Strategic Analyses
- Evaluation of packaging business growth opportunities for three North American producers
- Assessment of global cartonboard markets and preparation entry strategies
- Evaluation of selected niche cartonboard markets and an entry strategy
- Strategic conversion opportunity to kraftliner for a European client
- Market entry opportunities in virgin fiber-based liner business for a European client
- Business analysis of a European kraft paper producer for a potential buyer
- Business strategy for a global pulp and paper company
- Business plan assessment for virgin cartonboard in Asian market
- Global Disrupters’ impact assessment on Pulp and Paper Industry
- Global Shopping Bag Market Outlook
- Cost competitiveness of selected European graphic paper mills
- Workshop on virgin cartonboard market
- European recycled containerboard and recycled fibre market overview
- Second Opinion of Specialty Paper Machine Conversion Plan
- Release liner business and market overview
Operations Improvement
- Quick fix analysis with focus on low CAPEX investments for a European printing & writing paper mill
- Evaluation of conversion opportunities for a European newsprint mill
- Conversion potential of a European fine paper mill
- Technical production support for a European paper mill
- Cost-saving improvement for paper mill
- Operational Support for a European cartonboard mill
- Kraft Paper Converting Business Dynamics and Opportunity
- Technical Project Managemet Service
Business Assessments
- Global analysis of the main end uses and underlying trends in liquid packaging board
- Global cartonboard (SBS, FBB, CUK) and cost competitiveness, market and end use analysis incl. converter and brand owner interviews
- FBB and specialty paperboard competitive environment analysis in Europe
- Global kraftliner and semi-chemical fluting market overview and evaluation of business opportunities for a new BM integrated into pulp production
- Feasibility of liner project for a European producer with raw material availability and price forecast
- Market opportunities in kraft papers in Europe
- Analysis of global sack paper and paper sack markets with trend and substitution analysis
- Market and competitive environment overview of global kraftliner and semi-chemical fluting markets including trade flow analysis for a Russian client
- Opportunities in European paper merchant business
- Folding boxboard market and sales strategy
- Sales strategy support for cartonboard market entry
- Second Opinion Regarding BM Start-up Plan
- Assessment of the European kraftliner market
- Technical Concept Development for Containerboard
- Global MF/MG Market outlook
Investment Opportunities
- M&A-related transactions in MG and greaseproof papers
- Technical, environmental, business and financial due diligence of a European P&P mill
- Technical due diligence of a specialty paper company’s paper mills globally and selected European mills in relation to a successful merger
- Several cartonboard-related transactions both unsuccessful buy-side mandates and on-going work
- Business due diligence of a European packaging company
- Technical and environmental due diligence of a European SC manufacturer for a potential buyer
- Acquisition analysis for an American kraft paper producer
- Technical due diligence of a European cartonboard mill
Investment Opportunities
- Technical due diligence of a European tissue mill with converting plans
- Business due diligence of a European tissue mill with converting plans
- Acquisition and post-merger analysis of a European tissue producer
- Due diligence of assets of a large North American tissue producer’s mills
- Divestiture of a Latin American tissue company
Business Assessments
- Global tissue market and value chain analyses
- Overview of Latin American tissue markets
- Tissue market analysis and raw material availability for a European producer
- Feasibility study of tissue mill
- Tissue business market entry strategy
Strategic Analyses
- Product strategy for biorefinery
- Strategic analyses of biobased business opportunities
- Strategic lignin business opportunities and end-use markets
- Review of paper industry issues and their impact on a major European chemical company
Operations Improvement
- Holistic concept of bio-product mill
- Bioproduct utilization impact on operational efficiency
- IPR - Inventions, patents and licensing for industrial clients
- Due diligence and assessment of operations improvement for a chemical manufacturer based in South America
- Assessment of all plants and design of an operations improvement program for a multinational chemicals and plastics company
Investment Opportunities
- Evaluation of potential partners for biomass tolling
Business Assessments
- Business potential assessment for biorefinery products: methanol, lignin and tall oil derivatives
- Evaluation of biorefinery business opportunities (e.g. lignin, tall oil, turpentine)
- Development of a global CTO supply and demand balance
- Feasibility study of biorefinery project
- Business overview of biochemicals
- Evaluation of biomethanol for synthesis of hydrocarbons
- Evaluation of biomass-based biochemicals (e.g., acetic acid, furfural, xylitol, 5C and 6C sugars)
- Evaluation of bioplastics as well as drop-in bioplastics and bioplastic monomers (e.g., ethylene glycol (MEG), propylene glycol, ethylene, propylene, PE, PET, PEF, PET, PLA)
- Business studies of lignosulfonates, organosolv, 2G biorefinery lignin, and kraft lignin markets
- Evaluation of lignin and precipitated silica as fillers for tire and rubber industry
- Evaluation of lignin as a source of biocoal and biochar
Strategic Analyses
- Development of an energy strategy for a global paper company
- Evaluation of a potential power plant site in Europe
- Evaluation of energy generating options for a European paper mill
- Biogas strategy for production on an industrial scale
- Second opinion on power plant investment
- Preparation of an investment support application for the EU
Operations Improvement
- Health check of power plants for a global pulp & paper company
- Service portfolio and business models for energy efficiency services
- Improvement potential of energy assets of a European paper company
Business Assessments
- Analysis of biogas potential related to wastewater sludge from pulp and paper mills
- Future European electricity markets scenarios
- Renewable energy opportunities in Brazil, India and China
- Analysis of global pellet markets and related business opportunities
- Prospects for production and feasibility of Bio-SNG
- Evaluation of new biogas business opportunities
- Second opinion on bio coal as a future fuel
- Evaluation of biodiesel and bioethanol businesses
- Evaluation of green energy opportunities at a mill site in Europe
- Evaluation of biomethanol and biobutanol for bioenergy and biofuels
- Evaluation of fermentation, gasification, torrefaction, and pyrolysis technologies
- Evaluation of advanced second-generation (2G) bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass
