Valmet - Forward Talks: Recent Episodes
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Valmet’s Forward Talks podcasts invites Valmet's professionals and visiting industry experts discuss topics like megatrends, sustainability, innovations and digitalization to give you new ideas and food for thought.
How can you make the most out of resources for the longest possible time? That’s what the circular economy is all about. But why is circularity essential for industrial businesses, and how can the circular economy unlock companies’ inefficiencies? In this round table discussion, we explore the circular economy concept, its impact on industry, the requirements and ambitions to unlock inefficiencies across the value chain, and the role regulations and sustainability play in this topic. Put on your circular economy glasses and join Anna B. Töndevold, Nordic Sustainability Strategy Lead from Accenture, and our expert, Eero Halmari, Senior Manager at Valmet, as they shed light on this approach.
Today, we drill into the grassroot level of service design. Service design is all about doing: building things and communicating things. It’s about finding the right balance between feasibility viability and desirability in the solution we’re working on. Discover with us what service design is at a concrete level and how to use it from strategy building to individual product development. Our guests are Mikael Leppä, Head of Design from the Norwegian state energy company Equinor and Suvi Helén, a design professional from an outcome-focused digital transformation company called Futurice. And then we have Valmet’s own expert, Katri Tapola, Operations Development Manager. Join us in expanding your view to cover the solution’s entire life cycle.
Design thinking is gradually being connected with co-creating customer value, generating innovation and forecasting the business environment. How can design thinking be used and measured more strategically, and how do we implement it? What can we achieve when the customer is an integral part of the innovation process? Listen to some fascinating case examples from our guest speaker Timo Tiainen, representing Kone Corporation, and Valmet’s own design expert Mari Airio, Industrial Design Manager. Find out why design thinking matters, regardless of the business context.
Are we secure? The world is changing – remote services are necessary in today’s world between industry and the services provider. Cybersecurity requirements are therefore also growing faster than ever. We gathered three experts in the field at the same table for a topical discussion about cybersecurity in remote connections. Tune in and hear what Robert Valkama, Cyber Security Manager from Fortum, Mika Hållfast , Vice President for managed services from Nixu, and Valmet’s IT Security expert Jari Hotti have to say about the topic.
How can the making of pulp and paper become carbon neutral? In this episode, Pirita Mikkanen, Vice-President of Energy at Metsä, and Janne Pynnönen, Head of R&D at Valmet, discuss when and how this can become a reality: What is the role of technology in reducing emissions and what kind of technologies will enable such reductions even more in the future.
What is causing most CO2 emissions in industrial operations and how to remove fossil emissions from industrial operations? In this episode, Victoria Larsson, Head of Health, Safety and Environment, Valmet, and Mervi Leskinen, Portfolio Manager, Gasum Portfolio Services Oy, discuss how they are collaborating to move toward carbon-free energy and other carbon lowering initiatives their companies are taking.
How to create a global low carbon supply chain? In this episode, our host André Noël Chaker and his guests Juha Erkkilä, Head of Group Sustainability, Excellence & Reliability at Outokumpu, and Jani Suomalainen, Head of Supply chain at Valmet, will discuss the initiatives their companies are taking in lowering the carbon footprint in their supply chains. A special focus will be put on using recycled stainless steel - a raw material widely used in Valmet’s solutions. Tune in to find out how recycled stainless steels can make an impact in reducing carbon emissions across the value chain!
What is carbon neutrality? What kind of targets and measures are needed to achieve carbon neutrality in the pulp and paper industry? How is the pulp and paper industry meeting the global climate targets? In this episode, host André Noël Chaker and his guests Sara Lannerbro, SVP Sustainable Sourcing and Logistics at Stora Enso, and Laura Puustjärvi, Head of Sustainability at Valmet, will discuss the actions to reduce carbon emissions in the pulp and paper industry while also explaining what kind of targets the companies have set for themselves.
Well prepared agreements create the basis and trust for good cooperation between the parties. Contract design and data management are an essential part of a good agreement process. It is also good to understand the key friction points when planning agreements. We also see that contract management is becoming a more and more essential competency in companies. These issues will be discussed in this episode together with Tim Cummins, President, and Sally Guyer, Global CEO, both from World Commerce and Contracting Association, and Eero Halmari, Concept Development Manager from Valmet. Can agreements create value and deliver success?
Una experiencia del cliente excelente es sin duda un factor de diferenciación cuando los clientes seleccionan a sus socios. En este podcast escuchamos el significado de buena experiencia del cliente para Juan Constabel, Gerente de Operaciones de CMPC Biopackaging-Boxboard, Plantas de Maule y Valdivia en Chile, entrevistado por Peter Hernández, Gerente de Ventas para Plantas de Valmet. Con nuestros invitados Eero Halmari, Gerente de Desarrollo de Conceptos, e Ilkka Kytöjoki, Gerente de Acuerdos, ambos de Valmet, analizamos los comentarios de CMPC y debatimos a nivel general las repercusiones de las diferentes megatendencias en los acuerdos.
Great customer experience is definitely a differentiating factor when customers select their partners. In this podcast we hear what good customer experience means to Juan Constabel, Operations Manager for CMPC Biopackaging-Boxboard, Maule and Valdivia Mills in Chile interviewed by Peter Hernandez, Mill Sales Manager at Valmet. With our guests Eero Halmari, Concept Development Manager and Ilkka Kytöjoki, Agreements Manager, both from Valmet, we analyze CMPC’s comments and discuss on a general level how different megatrends impact agreements.
Markets have been going through a lot of changes such as the effects of the Covid pandemic on paper production. In this first episode of 2021, we will talk about the new megatrends and analyze what we can expect from different paper grades in 2021. Our guests Alejandro Mata, Director of Europe Packaging & Graphic Paper from Fastmarkets RISI and Juho Pyrrö, Senior Manager, Strategy & Business Intelligence at Valmet open up their views on this topic.
The growing demand for sustainable materials in packaging as well as in textile materials calls for new innovations in wood based fiber products. In this podcast Jarkko Tuominen from Metsä Spring together with Petri Rasinmäki from Valmet - will tell us what is 3D fiber and the new innovations surrounding that. Emmi Berlin from Spinnova opens up their efforts regarding the usage of wood based fibers in textiles. Listen in and be updated on wood based fiber product innovations and achieving sustainability targets.