Bioindustry Management Consulting
From forestry to packaging and retail, as well as from new bio-based materials to innovative end uses, Allow’s committed team of more than 200 industry experts advises and supports clients across bioeconomy value chains.
The world is changing quickly, which means that bioeconomy products, practices, and even organizational structures need to change as well. All parties involved in the pulp, paper, and packaging industries face both opportunities and challenges as a result of megatrends like sustainability, climate change, urbanization, and digitalization. The world we live in is changing more and more due to climate change, and digital communications reduce the demand for print media. For the development and production of forest products, bio-based substitutes and a circular economy strategy have grown in significance and are now the new standard.
The crucial aspect is not just surviving but also thriving. Businesses and industries that deal with bio-based forest products, such as pulp, paper, and packaging firms, need to take these evolving factors into account in their operations to guarantee exceptional overall performance. As they innovate and embrace digital transformation at an ever-increasing rate, they must discover circular ways to conserve energy and resources while creating new product applications. The market for ALLOW’s management consulting services for the bio-based supply chain is expanding as a result of this.
Our key offerings
Our decades of client support have allowed us to develop thorough long-term outlooks for planning for the paper and fiber markets' future. These thorough analyses, which include a variety of supply and demand drivers, offer priceless insights into the sector's changing global landscape.
We have distilled the outlooks' insights into a state-of-the-art business intelligence platform, ALLOW Smart, for convenience. Our clients can confidently navigate through changes in the paper and fiber market thanks to this platform's user-friendly access to the most recent data, forecasts, and analysis. The system gives them the exact data they require for their strategic decision-making through customizable dashboards and reports.
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Frequently asked questions
From strategy to implementation and upkeep, ALLOW's team of bioindustry management consultants collaborates seamlessly with engineers and digital specialists.
Many bio-based industries along the sustainability transition are covered by ALLOW's extensive sector expertise, including:
- Biofuels
- Biomaterials
- Chemicals and biochemicals
- Forest sector consulting, forestry and biomass
- Mining, minerals and metals
- Operational services
- Packaging and converting
- Paper, including graphic and speciality papers
- Pulp and biorefining
- Recovered paper
- Textiles
- Tissue and hygiene
- Waste and recycling
- Wood products
Supported by an awareness of best practices, ALLOW's service offering for bioindustry businesses includes everything from market insights and operational efficiency to corporate strategy and process design.
Utilizing our combined expertise, comprehensive internal databases, and cutting-edge analytics, our industry professionals strive to maximize our clients' operations in sectors like bioproducts, pulp, paper, and packaging.
Strategic solutions are put into place to ensure exceptional overall performance, reduce needless expenses, and streamline industry processes, improve efficiency, and promote sustainable growth.
The foundation of ALLOW's service is helping customers meet their sustainability goals. A key component of the strategy is circularity, which helps businesses become more socially and environmentally conscious while simultaneously improving their long-term viability and competitive positioning.
To support our clients operating within the various bio-based sectors best, we customise our scope of services to match their specific needs precisely:
- Expert witness services, including:
- Strength of case assessment
- Assessment of changes in market circumstances, including foreseeability
- Assessment of changes in regulations
- Analysis of market dominance
- Estimation of damages
- Economic expert reports
- Technical expert reports
- Economic expert testimony
- Technical expert testimony
- Investment assessment services, including:
- Conceptual feasibility evaluation
- Pre-feasibility and feasibility studies
- Bankable feasibility studies
- Second opinions
- Market analysis and forecasting services, including:
- Market strategies
- Market forecasts
- Assessment of competitive environment
- Navigating regulatory frameworks
- Demand analysis
- Supply analysis
- Cost competitiveness
- Price forecasting
- Sales planning
- Market entry strategies
- Operational and organisational excellence services
- Strategy and business model services
- Corporate, business, resource and technology strategy and implementation
- Transaction, M&A and due diligence services, including:
- Markets analysis
- Customer assessment
- Competition and industry analysis
- Technical evaluation
- Economic assessment
- Personnel and management review
- Post-merger integration
- Growth potential and post-acquisition opportunity assessment
- Risk assessment
- Forest valuations
- Market, commercial and regulatory due diligence
- Operational due diligence
- Technical and environmental due diligence
At Bioindustry Management Consulting, we provide comprehensive support to our clients in navigating a wide range of regulations, policies and key concepts with a primary focus on bio-based carbon removal and renewable bioenergy. The areas of specialisation include but are not limited to:
- Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
- Biogenic CO2
- Biomass Carbon Removal & Storage (BiCRS) & Non-BECCS BiCRS (for example, biochar production)
- Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCS, CCU, CCUS) & Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)
- Transport fuels, including:
- Advanced biofuels,
- Recycled Carbon Fuels (RCF),
- Renewable Fuels of Non-Biological Origin (RFNBO),
- Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)
- Support for:
- The FuelEU Maritime Regulation,
- The ReFuelEU Aviation Regulation, and
- The ASTM criteria for renewable biofuels
- Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (European Union Deforestation Regulation, EUDR)
- Renewable Energy Directive (RED, RED II, RED III)
Our consulting services for these standards ensure that clients stay ahead of regulatory requirements, utilising industry best practices and facilitating sustainable growth and compliance in the evolving bioindustry landscape.