THE FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRY, particularly its pulp and paper segment, is recognized as being a very capital-intensive industry. Risks associated to such capital intensity should be rewarded by better than average financial returns, but they are not. In fact, this industry is undergoing strong price-cost pressures and a track record of insufficient returns in its traditional geographic areas.
Today’s industry is characterized by emerging regions with tremendous strategic production advantages, technology advances and state-of-the-art production facilities that make a number of traditional producing regions trapped with obsolete and non-competitive assets. Still today this industry is in transition with on-going consolidation and repositioning of the traditional producers.
KSH has been servicing this industry on a global basis for over 85 years and has developed a deep understanding of the forest products value chain and markets.
KSH's services focus on supporting Clients in assessing the effectiveness of existing assets and operations as well as identifying ways to improve performance. KSH also focuses on improving capital productivity, helping Clients make the optimum investment decision, both on large scale projects and day-to-day investments.
Once the investment decision is made, KSH accompanies its Clients during the project implementation and start-up phase through its Engineering and EPC/EPCM service lines. KSH can also provide project implementation on an EPC/Turnkey basis with its business partner Ferrostaal AG.