Marko Hakovirta

Marko Hakovirta
SVP, Innovation and R&D
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Marko Hakovirta, PhD (Physics), MBA
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SVP, Innovation, Renewable Packaging and Consumer
Board, Stora Enso (2014 ->)
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Positions as Professor and Director, in Research and
Education Institutes at Auburn University and Georgia
Tech, USA (2011-2014)
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Group VP, Technology, Metso Corporation (2006-2011)
and other Innovation management related leadership
positions in Metso Group (2001-2006)
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Fellowships at Los Alamos National Laboratory (US) and
CERN (Switzerland) (1998-2001)
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materials company
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company
Division Consumer
Board
Innovation and R&D
Marko Hakovirta
SVP, Innovation and R&D
London, 28 May 2015
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continued success of manufacturing activities and the
achievement of efficiencies therein, continued success of product
development, acceptance of new products or services by the
Group’s targeted customers, success of the existing and future
collaboration arrangements, changes in business strategy or
development plans or targets, changes in the degree of protection
created by the Group’s patents and other intellectual property
rights, the availability of capital on acceptable terms; (2) industry
conditions, such as strength of product demand, intensity of
competition, prevailing and future global market prices for the
Group’s products and the pricing pressures thereto. price
fluctuations in raw materials, financial condition of the customers
and the competitors of the Group, the potential introduction of
competing products and technologies by competitors; and (3)
general economic conditions, such as rates of economic growth in
the Group’s principal geographic markets or fluctuations in
exchange and interest rates.
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Advancing the renewable packaging industry with
products excellence
Microfibrillated cellulose
Biobarrier coatings
Intelligent packaging
Replacing plastics
Design solutions
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materials company
The renewable
company
Global Benchmark and Thought Leader
in Renewable Packaging Innovation
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World class R&D capabilities
– State of the art lab and pilot
equipment
– Imatra, Finland and Karlstad,
Sweden
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Research Center Imatra
World class expertise
– Packaging materials science
– Product purity & safety and
machine interaction
– Industrial scaling-up, piloting,
incubation and new business
development
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140 professionals
Research Center Karlstad
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materials company
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External R&D network
Active collaboration with top research institutes and universities
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materials company
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company
Stora Enso is the customers solution to
consumers demand for renewable materials
Manufacturing centric
– Packaging innovations
Drivers
Production costs,
materials technology,
production efficiency,
optimization,
“Technology Push”
Customer centric
– Packaging innovations
Drivers
Renewable as
customers success
factor, ergonomic
user experience,
easiness to use and
attributes.
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materials company
The renewable
company
Stora Enso is the customers solution to
consumers demand for renewable materials
Consumer
Customer
New business
development
R&D
• Product and materials
• Technology development
• R&D Services
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Partnerships and JV’s
Incubation
Customer solutions
Business plans
Consumer Insight
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materials company
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company
Design
innovation
• Innovation Materials Lab.
• Innovation Center
Innovation in the center of our business
Intelligent packaging solutions with NXP
Innovation center in Helsinki
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materials company
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company
Microfibrillated Cellulose development
2006
2011
2014
Internal and
external research
MFC pilot capacity
planning
New scalable technology
enables commercialization
2009
2012
2015
MFC R&D related
to scalability and
new applications
MFC pilot plant
start-up
MFC commercial
activity started
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materials company
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company
Key drivers for innovation
SOURCE REDUCTION
REPLACING FOSSILE BASED MATERIALS
CONVENIENCE
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World of packaging