Metamorphosis of Forest Cluster Juha Mäkimattila 15.11.2011
Jan 12, 2015
Metamorphosis of Forest Cluster
Juha Mäkimattila
15.11.2011
Source: EFI Research Report 14
”THE TARGET IS TO DOUBLE THE VALUE OF FOREST CLUSTER PRODUCTS AND SERVICES BY 2030. AT LEAST HALF OF THE VALUE WILL
COME FROM NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES”
Forest Industry about 100 years ago
Forest industry today ”…double the value from 2006…”
Change Drivers
E-media
7 7
5% penetration one
year after launch
(iPad only)
?
Years after product launch
Tablets
Source: The New York Times; U.S. Census Bureau; “A Critical Examination of Adoption Rates”, Hannemyr; “New Economy Handbook”, Hall and Khan; Forrester Research; ComScore; Facebook; Google; AccuraCast Knowledge
New Technology is adopted quickly
Running out of Oil
CO2
New Pilots
”…half of the value will come from new products and services…”
Bio Wax
Bio Fuels
New Timber Solutions
Composite materials
New Packaging solutions
Smart Packaging
Biochemical for Health and Beauty
Some Other New Applications
What else?
Wooden City - or sustainable biosociety?
Biomass raw materials
Biomass - not only wood fiber
Nanocelluloses – a Class of Nanomaterials
Variety of micro- and nanofibrillar celluloses
Processing Refining Tailoring
Non-wood crop residues Industrial Pulps Wood, harvesting residues
Industrial sidestreams,
wastesWood Biorefining by-products
Cellulose nanomaterials
Step change/breakthrough product properties
Novel products
To The Bioeconomic Cluster
”…double the value…”
Strategic Objectives by 2015
Forestcluster Ltd becomes “Bioeconomic-cluster Ltd” by 2013 and has a strong and acknowledged position in biomass -centric research by 2015
Strategic Action 2 Systematic screening of purposeful partners for knowledge, research and ownership
Strategic Action 1 Systematic steering of research themes to cover wider biomass discipline
Strategic Action 3 Systematic development of research management and clusters operating practices to manage global networks and novel research fields
“Bioeconomiccluster Ltd“
2013
Forestcluster Ldt
2012
2015
Time
Value Creating Chain Biomass in its all forms New opportunities
27
Examples of potential partners
Thank You!
www.forestcluster.fi
”…goal is to establish in Finland a successful, constantly developing (forest) cluster,
whose products and services are among the most sought after in the world. This will pave the way for a sustainable biosociety...”