Consulting

• Market analysis of paper and timber products
• Demand and supply study, competitive analysis
• Discovery of potential market segments
• Scenario analysis of market behavior
• Marketing strategy development
• Assistance and marketing support within investment projects implemetation

 Development of concepts, feasibility studies and business-plans for investment projects, including:

• Generation of business-ideas complying with budget and need of a Customer
• Selection of technologies in partnership with equipment suppliers and scientific organizations
• Negotiations with technology and equipment suppliers
• Independent expertise of timber resources of a project
• Budget estimate of an investment project
• Development of preliminary plant lay-out
• Environmental impact assessment
• Development of inquiry according to Government Decree 419 of the Russian Federation
• Development of documentation according to requirements of financing organizations
• Development of presentation materials and informational support of projects

• Discovery of technological processes “bottlenecks” and provision of recommendations for their optimization
• Comparison of technologies applied by the plant with equivalent production facilities and BAT
• Unit costs benchmarking
• Analysis of irrational loss of energy, appraisal of possibilities for enhancing energy use efficiency and main approaches to implement the possibilities
• Analysis of work scope for operational repairs, major repairs, modernization, equipment maintenance
• Analysis of environmental risks of an enterprise

• Analysis of financial control system
• Analysis of financial planning and budgeting system
• Analysis of Customer’s business area and projects effectiveness
• Analysis and calculation of a project financial models
• Enterprise benchmarking
• Assistance in fundraising

• Effectiveness evaluation of process lines
• Development of recommendations to improve efficiency
• Development of quick-win projects program with budgets and effects appraisal

Unique row of R&D services for pulp-and-paper industry:

• Development and optimization of techniques of plant roughage delignification and bleaching of pulp semi-products according to requirements of BAT
• Modeling of technological processes of dissolving and fluff pulp production
• Development of technologies of turning timber industry wastes into VAT-products