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We offer management consulting services to clients throughout the forest products value chain, from resource providers to end users. Our unique experience allows us to recognise relevant driving forces and assess their impact on client business. We help clients capture strategic opportunities and avoid pitfalls.

One main area of our expertise lies in strategy formulation and execution regarding raw materials, markets and products. For instance, we help our clients find new business prospects in raw materiel procurement or better predict the competitive environment.

Another main area of our skills is to combine our leading-edge industry expertise and management consulting know-how with the best practices in the fields of sustainable ecosystem management and biodiversity protection such as supporting our clients in forest management and chain of custody certification.

Recent study:
Billion hectares of land have potential for forest restoration

We complement the skill set of client organisations with our wide and deep industry specific perspective. Our working methods range from technical analysis to process facilitation and from sparring to scenario workshops. We work well on every level of client organisations. With our unique understanding of the whole forest industry cluster, we can interpret trends or nuances in client business landscapes.

 

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Resolute Forest Products has been looking for forestry contractors in Nova Scotia for their Bowater Mersey mill and is now hiring contractors from outside of the province.

Resolute spokesman Pierre Choquette told the The Chronicle Herald that the company has placed advertisements in local media and online for the last number of years looking for harvesting contractors.

Choquette said their preference is to hire locally, if the...

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KINGSEY FALLS, QC, Feb. 22, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - Cascades Inc. (TSX: CAS), a leader in the recovery and the manufacturing of green packaging and tissue paper products, continues to consolidate its operations and

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OTTAWA, Feb. 22, 2012 /CNW/ - The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is telling Environment Canada that it can both fast track caribou conservation and also ensure a prosperous forest  industry.

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Topp addresses union rally on pensions, says bankruptcy laws used against workers

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The price of hardwood generally appears to be holding up in regions around the world, despite some declines of late.

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This report assesses the current level of transparency in Nepal’s Forest Sector. It serves as a baseline against which future assessments of forest sector transparency can be measured. The report uses a system of indicators (a...

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Coast Tsimshian Resources is advancing their plans for a sawmill and pellet plant in Terrace, British Columbia.

Both mills will be built on what is known as the Poirier log yard.

Teams of engineers will soon be brought in to work on the proposed mills. One team will concentrate on the sawmill, followed by a second team of engineers to work on the pellet plant.

The company wants to extract as much value as possible from each log it...

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Catalyst Paper Corporation has announced that its Board of Directors has elected Jeffrey Marshall as Chair of the Board to replace Benjamin Duster.

Marshall is also the Chair of Ormet Corporation and serves on the Boards of Lakefield College School Foundation and Brand Energy and Infrastructure Services Inc. Marshall has been a...

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By Agustiyanti and Effendi, Jakarta Globe, 22 February 2012 | State toll road operator Jasa Marga has completed a feasibility study to build a 1,000 kilometer trans-Sumatra toll road that would link Aceh to Lampung. Adityawarman, the company’s president director, said it had signed agreements with 10 regional governments on Sumatra, and would meet with them next week to discuss the next step. “From the corporate side, we are ready. There has been a study. We will discuss the study,’’ he said in...

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FRA press release, 22 February 2012 | Forestry Research Associates (FRA) claims that the REDD+ project is more than just about preventing deforestation and has backed a statement from a high profile member, who talks about the importance of helping those living in and around the forests. Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, one of the leaders of the REDD+ task force in Indonesia, has spoken out to highlight the fact that the campaign should be just as much about safeguarding the rights of indigenous people...

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geocomm.com, 21 February 2012 | GAF AG in a partnership with Deutsche Forst Service (DFS) has been awarded by GIZ, a newly conceptualised REDD Project for the southern African region. The counterpart is the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Directorate (FANR). The project will add to the already well-established portfolio of REDD services that GAF offers. The current project aims to design a SADC regional Monitoring, Reporting and Verification...

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Forestry Research Associates (FRA) claims that the REDD+ project is more than just about preventing deforestation and has backed a statement from a high profile member, who talks about the importance of helping those living in and around the forests.

 

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, one of the leaders of the REDD+ task force in Indonesia, has spoken out to highlight the fact that the campaign should be just as much about safeguarding the rights of indigenous people as preventing...

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The Ashland-based Geos Institute and the Conservation Biology Institute in Corvallis are teaming up to create an online center to track deforestation around the world. Known as the Global Forest Information Center, it will be on the Internet in a data-sharing system known as Data Basin — databasin.org — developed by the CBI in 2010.

 

The information, including maps, is expected to be available to policy makers, land managers and the public beginning this fall...

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Ecosystem Marketplace is pleased to announce the launch of the survey that will inform the State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets and State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2012 reports – the marketplace’s comprehensive and freely available accounts of the health and wealth of voluntary and terrestrial carbon markets. The survey ends on March 1, 2012. 

 

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