Innovation/Growth

In a difficult economic climate, expected to exacerbate the margin pressures already felt by many companies, performance improvement through innovative working practices and product design both have a key role to play in ensuring continued success in the FPP sector. Climate change is expected to spur new interest in global forest resources as a provider of renewable energy, fuels, chemicals and other materials and as a carbon sink and provider of other valuable environmental services. This spur extends to greater recycling of waste wood, paper and packaging waste. Technological innovation in these areas provides on the one hand new growth opportunities for traditional players in the wood fibre and packaging value chains; on the other hand, it will also encourage new entrants such as energy and chemicals producers, It will also stimulate a range of new financial investment and trading activities based on forest as the underlying asset. Collaboration along the supply chain involving traditional FPP players and others will take place.

How PwC can help

We combine extensive knowledge of business trends, industry expertise and a creative approach to problem solving to develop solutions that can enhance our clients’ ability to think outside the box and develop new and enhanced products in response to the changing sustainability agenda. PwC has experience in working with clients in the financial services, energy and utilities, waste and wider environmental sector - expertise that our forest paper and packaging experts can readily tap into to bring added value to our clients, planning a strategic response to new trends.