Process Industries

Introduction Process Industries

We support the global process industry in Pulp & Paper, Chemicals, Biobased solutions and biorefining, Mining & Metals, Food & Beverage as well as other process industries. Our global presence makes us the ideal partner when global top-level process technology knowhow combined with local presence is required.

Value chain understanding from raw materials to end-product markets

The whole process industry sector is searching and developing solutions to solve the challenges related to overall efficiency and sustainability. The transformation of the businesses especially in Pulp & Paper sector and fossil-based chemicals and oil refining sector have encouraged us to innovate new solutions for example in digital solutions, environmental and health and safety as well as in overall efficiency including raw-material, energy and water efficiency.

Our service offering covers the whole lifecycle and value chain of clients’ business. We serve our clients from early strategic development phases to big CAPEX implementation projects and to operational phase support.

Our unique combination of process technology specialist skills and multidisciplinary engineering expertise enables us to provide real value add to our clients in all kind of studies, implementation projects as well as during daily operations of the industrial plant. Environmental, Health and Safety and other consulting assignments are done in co-operation with process technology specialist to enable the big picture and correlations with processes.

AFRY is ranked #3 in Industrial Processes, #1 in Pulp & Paper, #1 in Food & Beverages, #2 in Chemicals (non-petroleum) #7 in Mining, and as #8 in steel and non-ferrous metals. ( Source: A2022 Engineering News-Record (ENR) Global Sourcebook)

Our key competences:

Our areas

Stainless steel pipes in the factory. Construction on food production.

Auxiliary Process Industry Operations

Battery Value Chain

Industrial pipelines of an oil-refinery plant

Biorefining

Chemicals

Food & Beverage

Scientist in a lab holding a glass bottle and a dropper

Life Science

Mining and Metals engineering solutions

Power-to-X consulting and engineering

Pulp & Paper

Textile Fibers & recycling

Nicholas Oksanen

Executive Vice President and Head of Division Process Industries, Country Manager Finland

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