NC State offers a tailored and exciting three-day online workshop that’s designed to help you understand market trends and business opportunities. This convenient short course is designed to prepare your operation to embrace changes in the industry and remain profitable.
DECEMBER 2-4, 2025
Online Workshop!
You can gain the tools to:
- Build complete financial models from scratch
- Master capital budgeting tools: NPV, IRR, ROI and more
- Understand key investment rules and performance indicators
- Benchmark against world-class pulp and paper operations
- Analyze cost structures, break-evens, and risk exposure
- Understand global trends and mill-level economics (tissue, recycled board, pulp)
No finance background? No problem!
his workshop is designed to guide you step by step. Just bring your curiosity and commitment to sustainability.
Who should register?
Technical and non-technical professionals in the pulp, paper, forest product, and related
industries who want to:
- Speak the financial language used by decision makers
- Strengthen the business case for their ideas, research, and projects
- Evaluate processes, services, or innovations with strategic impact
Who benefits the most?
- A mill or business unit manager responsible for strategic planning
- A consultant or engineer analyzing investments or improvements
- A sales or service professional pitching to senior leadership
- An R&D scientist assessing the financial value of innovation
- An industry newcomer wanting to build a strong financial foundation
What’s included?
- Daily lectures by top researchers in finance and marketing
- A certificate of completion