Industry
Paper & Packaging
Paper & Packaging
Sustainability and digitalization are redefining what's possible—and profitable
Our Experience
1,350+
global paper & packaging engagements
420+
global due diligence projects
Digitalization and sustainability pose challenges for virtually every industry, but for pulp, paper and packaging companies the issues cut both ways. Digitalization, for example, has significantly cut demand for newsprint, magazine and office paper, but also presents enormous opportunities to improve operations, facilitate e-commerce, and even create new forms of “smart” packaging. Flexible and rigid plastic and metals packaging present both opportunities and challenges, as does an intense focus on sustainability: companies in the beverages, food, durables, pharma, and industrial packaging subsectors are intensely focused on renewable and recyclable materials, circularity, emissions reductions and a range of related issues.
As they grapple with those issues, companies are also contending with industry consolidation, a surge of capital investment, and a variety of global trade barriers.
We work with companies across the full spectrum of forest products, paper and packaging, helping them develop future-proof strategies, pursue cost and capital efficiencies, and employ a range of automation and digitalization technologies to optimize every facet of their operations. Our paper and packaging consultants have helped companies in every sub-sector, including specialty paper, graphic paper, tissue, wood products, biochemical, pulp, packaging and forestry, set a bold ambition and execute on it flawlessly. We understand the specific challenges of the developing world as well as the issues that dominate mature markets. No matter what your category, we can help you enhance every facet of your organization to thrive amid intense change.
AI in Paper & Packaging
Generative and agentic AI are having a profound impact across the paper and packaging industry, enabling companies to boost productivity and growth, reinvent processes, and even create new businesses. We’ve helped companies apply AI to:
• Supply chain/predictive planning to address demand forecasting, large order management, inventory optimization, and more
• Procurement to address efficient vendor selection, supplier management, and category strategy
• Manufacturing to address capacity improvements and backlog reductions, prescriptive maintenance, and quality control
• Engineering to address quality management, documentation development, design simplification, and code generation
Real Outcomes
From utilities and banks to retailers and even yacht racers, we’ve helped companies in virtually every industry apply AI technologies to their most promising opportunities.
How We Help
We’ve worked with companies to build generative and agentic AI into every facet of industrial operations, from the factory floor to the supply chain to procurement and beyond. We focus on real-world solutions that generate real value and that quickly scale to meet your ROI targets.
