Whether you are a producer of, or supplier to the pulp, paper, paperboard and packaging, and tissue and hygiene segments, the decisions you make are expensive and consequential. Making the right decisions about market entry/exit and repositioning, fiber sourcing, asset utilization and repurposing is mission-critical. The increasing rate of future customer demands will heighten the challenges companies face. SCOZ provides our client partners with the understanding and actionable insight needed to operate nimbly in a capital-intensive and global marketplace.
ABOUT US
SCOZ is built on a foundation that leverages years of experience in pulp, paper, paperboard and packaging, and tissue and hygiene segment the world over, across diverse disciplines including M&A, strategy, and finance. We understand the nuances of the industry, and have a proven track record of inspiring the sustainable performance that will drive efficiency, productivity and profitability. Our combination of experience in business management and in the pulp and paper related industry itself makes us thorough, practical, and trusted advisors.
OUR REFERENCES
Our team successfully delivered on project that elicited the following comments to name a few:
Our client base is deliberately focused and exclusive. We believe that working for a small number of committed clients enables us to be effective, valuable collaborators and partners. By viewing your success as our own, we are driven to create responsive solutions for your unique needs.
WHY SCOZ
“My company needed long-term view of how the de-plastic trend might impact our growth and profitability prospects. As part of this effort, we needed to understand the future competitive landscape by assessing the asset profile of likely entrants into our markets by understand their feasibility. SCOZ advisors produced a 10-year supply/demand balance for the interest grades, outlined the asset and fiber requirements to produce them, and estimated the conversion cost requirements for all identified potential competitors to enter our market. Lastly, SCOZ Advisors assessed the implications that any supply/demand imbalance may have on domestic margins, and as a consequence, each competitor’s likely actions related to capacity management.”
VP of Strategy – Paper Producer
“We needed understand the asset quality and cost position of a single mill operation we were considering acquiring. Because our desire was to change the mill product, we needed a multiyear forecast of each of the target’s key product lines along with an understanding of the drivers of demand and the competitive landscape. SCOZ not only delivered on our expectations, they went beyond to make us aware of variants to our target products to help us occupy a more unique position in the market.”
VP of Operations – Asian Paper Producer
“We are a major Asian Printing & Writing producer in a hyper competitive domestic market with threats from imports also. SCOZ helped us assess our strategic options and explore transitioning some of our production capacity to alternative growth grades, and explore growth target markets with justifiable return on potential investment.”
CEO – Major Asian Producer
“As a technology and services company in the capital-intensive paper industry, our investment decisions in new product innovations require precision and reliability of the guidance needed to execute. We have SCOZ on retainer as an external resource to our executive leadership. In this role, they explore strategic options and challenge our internally generated assumptions. They perform deep dive reviews of markets, potential customers, and competitors to ensure we have the internal competence to successfully execute.”
VP – Major Equipment Supplier
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