Forest biomass is an object of ever increasing interest and growing competition. To stay in the driver’s seat, one needs to valorize* both the main product and all the side streams.
For the industries processing forest biomass, M. Kymenvaara AB provides a clear insight and a clear-cut direction for achieving the best business development results.
*) to enhance or try to enhance the price, value, or status of by organized action
M. Kymenvaara provides the following services:
Biomass
Projects and processes
Green and brown field investments
Biomass
- Feedstock potential adjustment
- Techno-economic analysis
- Sourcing strategy and tactic
Projects and processes
- Pre-feasibility & feasibility analysis
- Design & management of a business development process
- Strategic and operational advisory, including interim management role
Green and brown field investments
- Investment analysis, strategic advisory, including interim management role
- Technical scouting and supplier negotiations
- Technical and financial Due Diligence
Profile
|Profile
Matti Kymenvaara is a Forester (M.Sc. Helsinki university 2008) and a bioeconomy enthusiast who has been working with wood processing and bioenergy value chains for over 15 years. A resident in Stockholm, Sweden, and a business owner since Q4/2020.
Coordinating and executing a business development process, including:
- Opportunity and market analysis
- Investment analysis
- Project conceptualisation and project management
- Stakeholder relations
- Technology scouting and tendering process
- Contract negotiations
Expert knowledge of forest biomass value chains.
Expert knowledge of forest bioeconomy and renewable energy related EU policies and regulations.
| Kymenvaara AB 10/2020 – Founder |  |
| Skogsnyckeln AB 06/2023 – Interim CEO |  |
| Sunshine Kaidi (Finland) New Energy Co. Oy 2/2017-11/2020 Sourcing manager, executive board member |  |
| Spinverse Ltd. 10/2014-1/2017 Project manager |  |
| Tapio Ltd. 08/2011 – 10/2014 Bioenergy expert, bioeconomy expert |  |
| Forest management association Kanta-Häme 05/2008 – 07/2011 Project manager |  |
Matti Kymenvaara is a Forester (M.Sc. Helsinki university 2008) and a bioeconomy enthusiast who has been working with wood processing and bioenergy value chains for over 15 years. A resident in Stockholm, Sweden, and a business owner since Q4/2020.
Coordinating and executing a business development process, including:
- Opportunity and market analysis
- Investment analysis
- Project conceptualisation and project management
- Stakeholder relations
- Technology scouting and tendering process
- Contract negotiations
Expert knowledge of forest biomass value chains.
Expert knowledge of forest bioeconomy and renewable energy related EU policies and regulations.
| Kymenvaara AB 10/2020 – Founder | |
| Skogsnyckeln AB 06/2023 – Interim CEO | |
| Sunshine Kaidi (Finland) New Energy Co. Oy 2/2017-11/2020 Sourcing manager, executive board member | |
| Spinverse Ltd. 10/2014-1/2017 Project manager | |
| Tapio Ltd. 08/2011 – 10/2014 Bioenergy expert, bioeconomy expert | |
| Forest management association Kanta-Häme 05/2008 – 07/2011 Project manager | |
Background
Matti Kymenvaara is a Forester (M.Sc. Helsinki university 2008) and a bioeconomy enthusiast who has been working with wood processing and bioenergy value chains for over 15 years. A resident in Stockholm, Sweden, and a business owner since Q4/2020.
Expertise
Coordinating and executing a business development process, including:
- Opportunity and market analysis
- Investment analysis
- Project conceptualisation and project management
- Stakeholder relations
- Technology scouting and tendering process
- Contract negotiations
Expert knowledge of forest biomass value chains.
Expert knowledge of forest bioeconomy and renewable energy related EU policies and regulations.
Positions
| Kymenvaara AB 10/2020 – Founder
|
| Skogsnyckeln AB 06/2023 – Interim CEO
|
| Sunshine Kaidi (Finland) New Energy Co. Oy 2/2017-11/2020 Sourcing manager, executive board member
|
| Spinverse Ltd. 10/2014-1/2017 Project manager
|
| Tapio Ltd. 08/2011 – 10/2014 Bioenergy expert, bioeconomy expert
|
| Forest management association Kanta-Häme 05/2008 – 07/2011 Project manager
|
Track record
5 000 tbd/a pyrolysis plant (2023)
- Techno-economic assessment
- Investment analysis
- Technical Due Diligence of two plants in North America (2024)
1Mwe pyrolysis plant (2023)
- Techno-economic assessment
- Investment analysis
Wood shavings baling plant – paper & plastic bales (2021-2023)
- Technology scouting and tendering process: Wood shavings to animal bedding bales plant
- Baling in paper
- Investment analysis
- Facilitation of the contract negotiations
- FAT supervision
- Interim commission manager: plant commissioning
Wood insulation plant 5-10 tbd/h (2023)
- Technology scouting and benchmark study
- Scenario analysis for air injected insulation, flex-board and rigid board production combinations
- Investment analysis
Automated wood impregnation plant – 60,000 – 100,000 m3/a (2022)
- Technology scouting and tendering process
- Investment analysis
1,4 t/h briquetting plant (2023)
- Investment analysis and profitability calculations
- Sourcing manager in Kaidi Finland (2017-2020)
- Created wood sourcing strategy for 2,5 Mm3/a
- Signed supply LOIs for 2 Mm3/a
- Sustainability and regulation
- Renewable Energy Directive II (REDII) evaluation and lobbying to the final outcome (2016-2017)
- Interim CEO, Skogsnyckeln AB (2023 -)
- Recruitment of 4 employees, contract management, responsible for operations in Sweden
- Senior advisor for the Board
- Establishing a Swedish subsidiary for a Finnish company (2023)
- Conceptualization and business strategy, Shop in Box Oy (2021-2022)
- Business plan, supply chain design, key technology scouting
- Winning pitch of Linna Business Tournament, idea serie (2021)
- Wood shavings bale – marketing arguments and product description (2023)
- A marketing strategy for a forestry expert company 2024)
- Company brand development and brand launch (2024)
- Biochar (2023)
- Pyrolysis liquid (2023)
- Wood shavings – animal bedding (2021)
- Wood pellets & briquettes (2021)
- Mechanical forest industry side stream valorization (2020)
- Metal free and environmentally friendly impregnation solutions (2022)
- Wood-based insulation (2021)
Biannual Nordic Forest Product Market Monitoring Report (2015-), covering topical issues concerning the forest sector in the Nordics and Brussels
Funding application preparation: Business Finland development loan (€4M 2016), BBI innovation action flagship project (€20M 2015)
Concept design and prototyping Biomass Atlas (2013) – a map-based application for evaluating biomass potential (biomassa-atlas, Natural Resources Institute Finland)
