OUR SUCCESSESS

Our range of capabilities can be seen from past and present assignments.  Ceres has successfully participated in:

Woody Biomass

- Principal  author of “Energy from Forests” a Hawkins Wright Multi Client study evaluating the opportunities and threats to the North American and European Forest Based Industries as a result of the convergence of energy and fibre values (Published October 2008)

- Determining the feasibility of developing fast growing Eucalyptus plantations, Short rotation Willow crops and Jatropha plantations in Sub - Saharan Africa for a European based financial Institution

- Advising on suitable Business model and funding strategy for a $150 Million US East Coast Pellet project aimed at serving industrial and commercial heat markets in US including raw material procurement strategy

- Advising Brazilian pellet producer on EU marketing strategy

- Advising EU utilities and large Industrial Biomass importers on global feedstock sourcing strategies including:

- Forest Biomass resource assessment

- Secondary and tertiary processing residue resource evaluation

- Developing supply cost curves, current and 10 projection

- Developing technology options for repositioning the Forest products industry in the Atlantic Region (Maine Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) as part of PWC team

Forest products sector -

- NZTE Leading formulation of Company and Industry development strategies (including integrating bio energy options) and facilitating business planting and international JV's to execute strategies

- H&IE Generating regional forest industry development options  inclusing  facilitating the “Planting” of a new Business to manufacture zero carbon homes from low grade Scottish grown timber using enviro friendly solid wood wall systems

- Various Investors (Governments, Institutions, Private and Public companies)- Forest Resource assessments, valuation and disposal options analysis (NZ, Australia, RSA, Sweden, US South)

- Resourcing a plantation development company to plant 50000 hectares in SE Asia

- Advised major New Zealand multi-national on unbundling of a group of timber assets and a disposal strategy for their forestry and wood processing businesses in NZ and Argentina (c200K Ha of plantations)