Prohoc Stakeholder Magazine 5TH Issue Autumn 2016 www.prohoc.fi
On the cover:
BEING SAFE AND PRODUCTIVE GOES WELL TOGETHER CONSTANLTY IMPROVING WORKPLACE SAFETY — 4
iPEC — DESIGNED FOR CUSTOMERS NEW COOPERATION CONSORTIUM — 8
Circular economy in Africa:
NOT ALL WASTE IS WASTED A THREAT AND AN OPPORTUNITY — 16
Contents — #5 4 Occupational Health & Safety
16 Circular economy in Africa
Safety officer Erkki Skyttälä underlines the meaning of common sense in safety issues.
Behold westerners! Development bubbles hard in Africa. Waste management is a challenge and an opportunity.
8 iPEC – Consortium designed for clients
19 Greetings from the site: South Africa
Three strong expert organisations came together and something new got born.
Some great wines come from a land far far away.
10 Project resourcing The world is changing rapidly, Prohoc is answering to the challenge.
14 Business collaboration in the networked economy Mårten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne and advisor of Jakamo sums it up.
20 Prohoc 20th anniversary We had great time celebrating, have a look of some moments we captured.
22 Wasa Golf Open golf courses for anyone. Wasa Golf is doing pioneering work in Osthobothnia area.
Prohoc Scope is a stakeholder magazine giving insight to the daily business and development of Prohoc Oy and its personnel. PUBLISHER: Prohoc Oy EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Matti Manner ART DIRECTOR: Jonne-Pekka Stenroos/Staart COVER PHOTO BY: Mikko Lehtimäki PRINTED BY: Fram, Vaasa, Finland. Papers and inks used are eco-friendly and produced responsibly.
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Editorial from the Chief
THE BEST TIME TO PLANT A TREE WAS 20 YEARS AGO. The second best is now. As the famous Chinese proverb on the headline says, today is always the best time to act. At Prohoc, taking action every day is of highest values and in fact, we also got established 20 years ago. Many thanks to our customers for celebrating our b-day with us! It’s fundamental for businesses today to run fast if in order to keep up with the pace of change. Work is changing. New generations are more individuals and opportunistic than their parents. One of the megatrends of our time is that we want to take more responsibility of the work as individuals, which can be seen in increasing interest towards micro-entrepreneurship as a career choice among youngsters, but for seasoned professionals as well. In this issue of the Scope, you’ll learn about ProPartners concept to enable entrepreneurial way of working, while still having the support of an employer organization. Our customers will benefit from having the best expertize, working productively for the projects. You will also learn that Prohoc is a proud member of a newly launched consortium having three industry leaders forming an interesting value proposition for investors. iPEC consortium, where FCG, Etteplan and Prohoc bring together vast amount of experience from large industrial projects is something that enables our customers to focus on their core business and technology while we can take responsibility of managing the project delivery. The consortium is filling the gap around independent project management services for medium-sized industrial investments. Enjoy reading details about these and many more interesting stories on our fifth issue of the Scope and forward your thoughts back at us.
Matti Manner CEO Sport enthusiast, yachtsman and all-around business engineer Matti is the chief executive officer of Prohoc. After traveling around the globe trying to find world class suppliers he is now navigating Prohoc to become one. TWITTER: @MattiManner
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ack in the 1970s over one hundred people lost their lives in work-related accidents in Finland each year and the loss of working days was close to one million, worth some half as billion euros in today’s money. Today the figures are less than 20 lives and 200.000 working days lost annually. A net saving of around 400 million euros can be attributed to new work place safety legislation, improved working conditions, introduction of new safety equipment, but most of all to the change in attitude towards work place safety. The cold facts above don’t take into account the consequential or in-direct damages and costs, such as human suffering, delays in project deliveries or manufacturing and legal proceedings related to the accidents. Including these to the calculation, it could be argued that the actual saving due to diligent safety work is well over one billion euros. Now that accidents are at a historically low level, more and more emphasis is put on the reduction of sick leave absences. They already account for over 90% of lost working days, thus preventive occupational health care faces new challenges.
STANDARDS AND DIRECTIVES As in all aspects of life, there are several laws and regulations affecting everyday operations at work places. The introduction of Occupational Safety Oversight Act in 1974 and the simultaneous establishment of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were the required wake-up call in Finnish work places. Although the Health and Safety Representatives and Occupational Health Managers were sometimes seen as the necessary evil, they led to increased cooperation between employers and employees, which, in turn, resulted in the rapid reduction in accident rates. As a direct result of the work place safety education activities started by OSHA back in the 1970s, Finnish educational organizations have introduced a series of short courses on different aspects of work place safety. These courses handle topics from general work place safety to hot works and from road safety to under-water working. The different safety course or cards don’t themselves guarantee an accident-free work place, but they give all employees the same vocabulary and basic understanding of the underlying risks at the work place. In many cases these safety cards are mandatory, before entering the work site. Continues ≥
Standardised incidence rates per 100,000 employees of fatal injuries at work in the EU, 1999-2013 Eurostat, ESAW, 2013
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PROHOC’S FOOTPRINT Prohoc’s experts have worked in over 500 sites in more than 100 countries in the past 20 years. They have witnessed the work on-site evolve from ‘every-man-forhimself’ towards ‘looking-after-the-guynext-to-you’. Although work site safety is everyone’s responsibility, many projects have dedicated HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) officer(s) to coordinate and oversee site activities from a ‘zero incident’ perspective. This is especially important on sites, where there are numerous sub-contractors from different countries, where historically safety culture has not been a high priority. Prohoc’s safety program is certified according to OHSAS18001. Continuous work on safety culture has really paid off during the past years. While the average accident rate in industrial working places in Finland has been around 30 accident per one million working hours and even over 60 in construction work, our number was 7.9 in 2015. This is solid proof that emphasis in work induction, well-being at work and zero tolerance for unsafe behaviour really pay off. As a multi-discipline service provider, Prohoc has also several HSE experts on its payroll. Managing the HSE operations during the Porvoo Kilpilahti oil refinery renovation for Neste Jacobs was one of our biggest projects in 2015. The excellent feedback from the Porvoo project ensured that we were the top choice also for the Naantali oil refinery renewal project taking place in 2016-17. TOWARDS SAFER TOMORROW The EU has made it their top priority to reduce human suffering due to work place incidents. This includes ac-
ERKKI SKYTTÄLÄ Safety Officer at Prohoc
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tions like equal pay and opportunities for both genders, support for work place productivity schemes and, naturally, a further reduction of work-related accidents is high on the agenda. The Zero Accident Vision is a philosophy, which states that nobody should be injured due to an accident. It can be viewed as a way of thinking; this proposes that all accidents can be prevented. When no accidents are allowed, or approved, this provides a basis for learning from accidents and improving processes. The corner stones of the Zero Accident Vision are: • Learning from accidents and near misses • Leaving room for the unexpected • Management commitment and workers’ participation • Atmosphere for open co-operation • Resourcing • Networking Every workplace is different and faces different risks and has different workers – all working environments are unique combinations of many actors and situations. Therefore, no standard solution exists for achieving the goal of Zero Accidents, what really matters is that there is a resilient pro-safety attitude. Workplace specific risk assessment and risk management are crucial in achieving the goal of accident-free workplace. In addition, as important as learning from the past, is the need to be alert to new risks. Improving safety is a never-ending task: even when performed well, it is never finished.
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"WORKING SAFETY HAS IMPROVED A LOT DURING LAST DECADES. THAT BEING SAID, THE WORK IS NEVER FINISHED. I TRULY BELIEVE IN THE ZERO-ACCIDENT VISION."
iPEC is a 100% Finnish alternative to demanding industrial project deliveries. Etteplan, FCG Design and Engineering, and Prohoc form a cooperation consortium that integrates all the required services for a successful plant design, construction and commissioning project. iPEC exists to answer the call from customers to deliver high-quality services for different types of industrial investment projects. The reality today is that very few companies have manpower or know-how to design and run investment projects themselves. In-house project organizations are small and diminishing all the time. Projects are getting more and more complex. And project deliveries are divided amongst suppliers often specializing in specific products or services, which creates the need for design&engineering and project management tying the bits and pieces together.
ever, prove difficult. And this serves as the justification for iPEC. In iPEC, each of the consortium companies focuses on what they know best • FCG handles environmental and permitting issues • Etteplan is in charge of engineering and documentation • Prohoc manages the project and installation work on-site Project planning is done in close cooperation to ensure that best expertise is utilized in each task. Although iPEC partners are three different entities, all the services are available on one contract and there is a single point of contact from our side to help your project succeed. With iPEC you will always have the right person for the job. The different tasks within the contract are then divided internally based on available resources and expertise that each company possesses.
iPEC includes all the required services for a successful project delivery from pre-feasibility studies and investment calculations to operation&maintenance support and product lifecycle analysis. We are not fixated to a certain project delivery model, but each case is built based on customer requirements. The standardizes project delivery models like EPC and EPCM are naturally available, but more flexible owner’s engineer or project management contracting might prove more suitable in some cases. STRONG OFFERING All investment projects follow quite similar lifecycles. Thus, it is quite simple to envision the types of services that are needed to reach the project goal; a high-quality delivery in budget and in time. Finding a single company with all the required skills and competencies may, how-
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THE COMPANIES Consortium companies are the leading Finnish operators in their respective fields. Combined we employ close to 4.000 experts and have delivered thousands of projects across the globe for demanding multi-national customers. Decades of continued service to industry-leading customers serves as the testimonial of our expertise, know-how and service-oriented mindset. FCG Design And Engineering operates with environmental, infrastructure, smart water and urban planning sectors. They are the leading partner in feasibility studies and permitting issues with extensive expertise also in property development and maintenance services. Etteplan specializes in plant engineering, product life cycle services and technical documentation solutions. They are Finland’s largest engineering company specializing in equipment and plant engineering with expertise also in embedded systems and IoT solutions & services. Prohoc delivers project management, installation supervision and document control services on-site. They offer multi-discipline project management services for all project-driven businesses with extensive knowledge in energy, mining and oil&gas segment project deliveries.
DESIGNED for customers EIGHT BENEFITS FOR CHOOSING IPEC:
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Value engineering for leaner, efficient solutions.
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All project-related services from one supplier.
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Skilled team of experienced project suppliers.
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Tailor-made solutions to match your budget.
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Consultation on all project-related matters.
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Continuous improvement to serve you.
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Global know-how to help you succeed.
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Safe, secure and timely deliveries.
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Solving the Project Resourcing Dilemma:
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! CHANGE IS THE NEW BLACK One of the greatest songwriters, and the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, Bob Dylan wanted to raise the issue of the fast-changing world already in the 60’s. The lyrics of The Times They are a-Changin’ are becoming more timely each day, as we face the increasing pace and volatility in our lives. And business is no different. Old structures are facing tremendous pressure from fast-moving
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agile enterprises, and completely new business models are challenging industries with rigid structures and the fallacy of believing that they’re safe of unaffected. Corporations are fighting a new frontier of competition, by adopting rapid R&D processes, introducing hackathons, acquiring new competencies and improving agility. They are turning slow-moving organizations into flexible, and businesses into scalable ones. There’s a tremendous amount of new knowl-
edge and ways of working that need to be adopted, when moving into the new world order of the fourth industrial revolution. Furthermore, the challenge of the retiring baby boomers must be met somehow. In many Western countries, this also opens a window of opportunity for new ways of arranging work.
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PR OC ES S GA S OIL & THE CHANGE IS EVEN STRONGER FOR INDUSTRIAL PROJECT BUSINESSES Modern knowledge workers are collaborative, linguistically capable and know how to search for information. Unfortunately, they lack experience in weighing different solutions for complex problems. Project management work requires strong problem-solving skills and those only accumulate by doing. This needs to be addressed with a solid succession planning. Projects are defined as
doing something in a predetermined time, cost and quality while following a detailed sequential action plan. This means mostly managing the risks and solving each conflict quickly as they appear. Should there be no surprises, a well-planned project takes care of itself, but that’s seldom the case. It’s a challenge of managing the “known unknows” and especially the “unknown unknows”. This is where Finnish engineers are best at. Taking action with responsibility, making fast decisions
to proceed with the work and closing the project. It’s called accountability and that’s what matters at the end of the day. PRORESOURCING SERVICES INSTEAD OF OUTSOURCING The trend of contracting external expertize began decades ago, turning into a booming wave of outsourcing non-core activities as we entered the 21st century. While some industries managed Continues ≥ 11
From previous page to find solid business models with increased flexibility, many suffered by losing critical competencies. It took a while before companies found a balance between internal and external resourcing schemes. At the same time business itself has turned from traditional selling into value creation. The best technology is no longer enough, it must be packaged into a solution, delivered, commissioned and even operated before eventually handing over the keys. Your all-the-best-featuresproduct may no longer be enough for a customer only interested in the output of your solution. This creates strong demand for project management. And moving from equipment delivery to EPCs combined with volatile end-markets, also creates the need to convert fixed resources and costs into variable ones.
PROHOC’S COMMUNITY OF EXPERTS Putting the right knowhow and experience in the right boxes is highest on the agenda, when aiming for a successful project organization. At Prohoc we have introduced a new competence & qualifications management system to enable us to react fast on our customer needs, always allocate the right experts in each task and to further develop our talent pool. Today we are able to serve a variety of industries ranging from pulp and energy projects to oil refineries. For the benefit of our project customers, we are a community of hands-on engineers with a multi-discipline and multi-industry knowhow having accountability as a House Rule.
Benefits of contracting out Expert Services to Prohoc • Community of multi-discipline project experts at your service • Gain agility to meet the volatile market • Fill competence gaps with hands-on engineers • Enable rapid move into new technologies • Share risks with your resourcing partner • Get the work done when its needed • Focus on core business activities • Enable scalable business model • Allocate costs directly on project • Reduce total costs • Move from fixed / semi-fixed to variable personnel costs
OUR SCOPE IS COMPELETE
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
AUTOMATION
Rigorous project leadership; managing projects in budget and on time.
Proficient control system deployment monitoring; commissioning the systems to work together.
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Competent civil works supervision; ensuring a solid base for the investment project.
Prompt supply chain management; right material in the right place at the right time.
Our multi-discipline project knowhow: ELECTRICAL 23%
MECHANICAL Accomplished structural erection oversight; building the foundation for customers’ equipment.
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Qualified instrumentation and electrical installation control; enabling modern services within the site.
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Impeccable support function management; mitigating the health, safety and quality risks.
First-rate content creation, controlling and publishing; onestop shop for all technical and project documentation needs.
MECHANICAL 18%
DOCUMENTATION 16%
CIVIL 11%
SEASONED PROFESSIONALS — JOIN PROHOC’S EXPERTS COMMUNITY!
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roPartners invites micro-entrepreneurs, experienced consultants and adventurous project experts to join our rapidly growing community of project and site management professionals. Prohoc has created a unique offering to senior experts interested in combining their technical or project managerial expertize and entrepreneurial way of working to Prohoc’s well established business relationships and service support. Our long-term customer accounts, certified processes and backoffice support enable interesting assignments and full concentration on the actual project work.
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN? ProPartners is a service platform for project experts to utilize their knowledge 100% for the job at hand, i.e. for the project they work for. Prohoc brings in all the structure, corporate level support functions and customer accounts for productive work, and possibility for additional value creation, while supporting the daily work. WHAT’S THE ATTRACTION FOR A SENIOR PROFESSIONAL? ProPartners offers the framework, processes, support services and an easy to plug-in platform for you to focus on your specialty area. It’s a service that enables professional knowledge worker to concentrate on the work at hand, while all support tasks, payroll, admin services etc. will be managed by Prohoc’s service personnel. WHERE’S THE BEEF? The beef is that you no longer benefit only from your own book-to-bill hours, but you’ll have an additional ‘revenue and profit sharing model’ with Prohoc to make utilize our combined customer base and pool of 400+ project professionals. It’s a combination of being PROHOC’S PROPARTNERS MODEL SUPPORTS MICRO- your own boss with incentivized bonus schemes, yet profiting from Prohoc’s backoffice admin and profesENTREPRENEURSHIP STYLE OF WORKING FOR sional support similar to an employer organization. PROJECT EXPERTS. One of the key success factors for corporations is the ability to quickly organize around a project and to setup a task force to get the job done in a pre-defined time, while maintaining their flexibility. This creates the demand for external project experts. Simultaneously corporations are moving from one-man-shops to service providers with more of a one-stop-shop service offering. With ProPartners you are not only addressing these challenges, but also having the opportunity to exploit your knowledge and network for your own benefit.
For more information on ProPartners, please contact: matti.manner@prohoc.fi Matti Manner CEO
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BUSINESS COLLABORATION IN THE NETWORKED ECONOMY Mårten Mickos CEO OF HACKERONE IN SILICON VALLEY, ADVISOR AND INVESTOR IN JAKAMO
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e live in a digital age where the nature of work is as leaders, and the communication better be authentic. radically changing. What humans were mechan- We must make the most of the new digital collaboration ically doing is now being automated by software. Tasks tools so that we can orchestrate work across highly dithat used to require advance planning and a long exe- verse teams. Such teams will have full-time employees, cution time can now be done immediately with the help part-time employees, outsourced teams, consultants, of online resources. Orchestration of larger events that freelancers and more. They will geographically be disrequired costly and cumbersome intermediaries can now persed around the globe, representing any number of be done directly. The units of resources are becoming languages and cultures. more granular, available online through automated inTo be successful in their jobs, leaders need to align the terfaces in large liquid marketplaces. Friction is being varied resources around the purpose and values of the removed. Access to resources is broader; the industrial organization. Leadership through command and control world is being democratized. A small startup can disrupt will be just a small and rare part of the job. Leadership a giant corporation. is not about big fish vs. small THE MORE WE DIGITIZE THE WORLD, The networked economy is fish. It’s about empowering all bringing change to all indusfish and guide them all in the THE BETTER WE CAN CONNECT OUR tries in the world. There isn’t same direction. No organizaWORLD WITH OUR BRAINS, AND a successful manufacturer tional unit is as powerful as a CONNECT OUR BRAINS WITH EACH OTHER. today that doesn’t deal with group of many acting as one. a large number of suppliers and a large number of cus- And in today’s world, those groups consist of teams tomers. To be successful, you must be able in near-real representing multiple different companies who collabtime to coordinate the activities of people who work for orate as suppliers and buyers or in some other fashion. other companies. But collaboration between companies Software is eating this modern world, and we must in is hampered by information being siloed and delayed in turn eat software. Nearly without exception, our societal individual emails, phone calls and telefaxes. We need an and industrial resources will be managed by software online platform that connects suppliers and buyers on systems and controlled through computerized interfaces. a team-to-team level. We need instant access to vital We all have egos that are self-centric. But our brains are business information, and we need to be able to take eager to collaborate. The more we digitize the world, the action quickly. The collaboration information needs to better we can connect our world with our brains, and be visible, available, and actionable. connect our brains with each other. Collaboration is a The great technological advances of the past decades vital skill in the 21st millennium. have also brought with them an entirely new sort of The collaborative models of the digital world and complexity. We live in a distributed system – a networked the new styles of leadership are leading us to a future world where anything can depend on anything. The where we can find fulfilling roles for all humans. Our solution to complexity and societal change is leadership. jobs will change, and the way we think about work will We must upgrade the art of leadership to the level of change. But we will not be sidestepped by computerized the digital society we now live in. Leaders who used to systems. We will dramatically increase our own abilities hide in their offices need to come out and be as imme- to learn and do, and we will find new levels of human diately available online as all other resources. Commu- inventiveness and collaboration. nication must be an integral part of everything we do
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MĂĽrten Mickos is the CEO of HackerOne in Silicon Valley with a special passion for leadership and for open collaborative business models. Mickos is an Investor and Advisor in Jakamo.
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Waste in Africa – a Threat and an Opportunity
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Waste, in all its forms, is a growing threat to people and the environment. At the same time, it offers a growing number of enterprises and people new business opportunities. Under-developed countries are especially vulnerable to the ill effects of waste, but they also have the most to gain.
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he renowned Webster’s Dictionary defines waste as ‘loss of something valuable that occurs because too much of it is being used or because it is being used in a way that is not necessary or effective’. This would suggest that value is inevitably lost due to the inefficient operations. However, in this case one man’s garbage dump can really be another man’s treasure chamber. In the more developed countries, the Western World, if you will, usable materials are more readily discarded as excess, obsolete or otherwise unusable. There are laws and directives in place to enhance the source sorting and recycling of waste, but still our landfills are filling up on municipal, commercial and industrial waste. These landfills, no matter how well established they are, will always, at least in the long run, pose a threat to the ground water and pollute the micro-climate, not to mention the visual and odour-based impediment they constitute. The Western World can just about cope with their waste, with their solid infrastructure for waste collec
tion and management. Waste becomes a real challenge, when the so called Third World Countries join the ‘rat race’, the pursuit of happiness through wealth, without the means to manage the accruing waste mountains. This is where innovative waste management solutions are called for. The solutions have to fulfil the following three criteria; robust in design to cope with the local conditions, modular in nature to enable easy expansion and people-sized to win over the trust of locals. WASTE FOR ENERGY Maslow’s famous hierarchy of needs builds on the actualization of one’s physiological needs; food, water, warmth and rest. These are things that we take for granted, but are still a struggle for almost half of the world’s population. Inadequate housing, poor sanitary conditions, polluted drinking water and unhygienic food preparation conditions are the harsh reality to three billion people daily, and also the number one cause for untimely deaths. Continues ≥
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At a Glance • The total amount of waste produced annually is 30 billion tons, i.e. 4,000 kg per capita
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• The waste volume will double in the next 20 years • Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is the number one source of waste in landfills • Other major sources of waste are construction and agriculture, which can be recycled more easily African elephant cow measuring around 3 metres at the shoulders will weigh around 4000– 5000 kg
• The higher the income level and rate of urbanization, the greater the amount of MSW produced • Currently OECD countries produce half of the world’s waste, while Africa and South Asia regions produce the least waste • By 2030 Asia will be the leading waste producer • By 2070 Africa will overtake Asia as number one
From previous page The answer, at least a partial one, for the above challenges is electricity. It won’t mend a leaking roof or build an indoor toilet in the house, but it can be used for water purification and refrigerators. And most important of all, electricity, or power in general, will enable the establishment of small and medium-size enterprises, which can kick-start the positive spiral of development in the local community and the country as a whole. Since national power grids in the developing countries are either run-down or non-existent, the electricity production solution has to be local. The most abundantly available fuel these days is waste, especially in the urban areas. Almost all combustible non-toxic waste; municipal, commercial and industrial, can be incinerated for electricity or other energy forms. Some African countries are still trading waste for cash. They are importing waste from neighbouring countries or even further abroad for desperately needed foreign currency. And yet they are not utilizing the potential that lies in waste. It can be argued that burning waste containing valuable materials like plastics and wood is a waste in itself. This is partially true; recycling is almost always the preferred solution to incineration. However, without a local industrial use for the recyclables, the whole concept of recycling is a waste. Once the positive development spiral is up and running thanks to the local SMEs utilizing the power produced from waste, more emphasis can be directed in the reuse of waste in the form of raw materials. In an ideal world, only the share of the waste that cannot be profitably recycled, will be incinerated for energy. BRIGHTER FUTURE The detrimental approach of not managing the waste properly cannot continue much longer. Not only does it have harmful environmental and health impacts, but it is also a complete waste of what is essentially a free fuel or raw material. The reduction of methane gas, which is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, emissions in landfill sites should be reason enough to start acting in favour of other waste disposal solutions. Fortunately, World Bank, The African Development Bank and many Western development cooperation organizations have arisen to the challenge. Urbanization is progressing especially fast in Africa and solutions to reduce its adverse effects are sought after and screened by these organizations. Financing in the form of loan guarantees and government grants are more readily available than ever before to these environmentally and health-wise beneficial projects. Prohoc is currently working on several development projects related to waste in the African continent. These waste-to-energy and waste-to-fuel type of opportunities are based on our decades of project delivery experience across the globe, vast cooperation network and our own waste-to-energy power plant development work. To fully exploit these opportunities, Prohoc has recently nominated an agent, Witech Africa, to promote our products and services in the Southern African Region.
Ask more about Prohoc's waste knowhow: tapio.gylling@prohoc.fi Tapio Gylling Director, Project Services
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Greetings from the site
SOUTH AFRICA
FRUITY REDS from South Africa B
eing a New World wine country, South Africa has a rather long history with wine. First vineyards were established in the 1600s by Huguenots, an ethnoreligious group from France seeking refuge. Along with citrus fruits and flowers, wine is the country’s most important agricultural export product. Today, the vineyards produce 1.5 million tons of harvest for the needs of wine production. Wineyards cover around 106 000 hectares of land. Only part of the grapes is sold as wine. Poorer quality crops are distilled or refined into grape juice concentrate – the country is the world’s biggest producer of grape juice concentrate. The most popular grape is Chenin, or Steen, as the locals call it. The second most popular is South Africa’s own grape Pinotage, a crossover of Cinsault and Pinot Noir born in the 1920s. Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz are also widely grown. Since the country’s climate offers a lot of dry seasons, reservoirs are a typical sight among South African vineyards. The best cultivation areas are in the southern west coast where the climate varies quite a bit. Therefore the vintage matters vastly, as in Europe. Historically the most important name in South African wines is Constantia. It’s a legendary dessert wine acknowledged as one of the world’s biggest wines already in the 1700s. Maybe the best way to enjoy fruity South African wines is braai, the South African substitute for a barbecue. Along with different types of steaks, sausages, kebabs and fish, braai menu often includes pap, a type of corn porridge.
South African wine history is full of colorful events and dramatic years. Learn more: www.wosa.co.za
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The first vines were imported from France, the Rhineland and Spain and successfully planted in the The Dutch East India Company’s gardens.
On 2nd February, Commander Jan Van Riebeeck wrote in his diary: "Today, praise be to god, wine was made for the first time from Cape grapes."
The phylloxera disaster destroyed millions of vines at the Cape.
Georg Canitz of Muratie bottled the first South African Pinot Noir.
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Prohoc Chairman of Board Martti Manner shares some memories frome the road. The audience was listening carefully about first steps of Prohoc and some site memories.
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he event took place at beautiful Villa Vaasa in the end of September. House full of guests from customer companies and other stakeholders attended the celebration. The celebrants were treated with delicious food and some unforgettable presentations along the evening. The last few hours of the venue was filled with music and dancing. Thank you for everyone who participated!
Photos by Jukka Vähälummukka
≥ Mikko Lehtimäki from Vaasan Meripelastusseura thanked Prohoc for the support with a pennent, some kind words and a video starring Prohoc Rescue (boat) in action!
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≼ The head coach of ice hockey team Vaasan Sport, Tomek Valtonen sent his greetings for Prohoc and told about ongoing season. > Martti and "Uffe" Nylund shared some memories about what it was like to build a power plant in India back in the 80's.
≼ CEO Matti Manner thanked for the great memories shared by celebrants and brought some insight for the future to-be stories.
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YEARS OF SOCIAL SPORTS OUT IN THE OPEN www.vaasangolf.fi
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With its 1354 members, Vaasa Golf is one of the city’s largest athletic clubs. Vaasa Golf Course saw it’s first game already back in 1969. –With 27 holes and varying grounds, our golf course is lovers, as you get to spend lots of time outside. It’s an a very broad and versatile one, says executive director extremely mental sport that requires self-control and in charge Tuula Perälä. intense focusing. Many find playing golf meditative. –There’s an open field course and some beautiful –When I go to the course, I leave my worries behind. forest fairways. Golf has taught me a lot of self-discipline, Tuula Perälä For practicing, Vaasa Golf Club offers a big driving says. range plus training bunkers and greens. There is also a Competing is a vital part of golf, and it’s one of the few separate short game training area with lots of space for sports where one can start competing as a grown-up and practicing chipping and pitching. Short game can also be trained on a three hole par 3 course. PROHOC HOSTS AN INVITATIONAL
GOLF TOURNAMENT AT KRÅKLUND DURING 2017.
A SPORT FOR EVERYONE LET US KNOW, IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN Unlike some people seem to think, golf is not a PARTICIPATING: iiro.wesslin@prohoc.fi recreation of the rich. –For kids, golf is lot more affordable than ice hockey or football for example. I know it, since my sons used to play ice hockey! Golf is an Ordinary Joe’s still reach the national level. Vaasa Golf offers coaching sport. Especially if you play a lot, the cost per round won’t for those wishing to improve their game. rise too high. You can, of course, spend a lot of money –Golf is so much more than just the playing, Perälä on the equipment, but that’s always one’s own choice. promises. Next year, an open-for-all course will open in Vaasa –We organize all kinds of activities and events for the Golf. It’s an open course for everyone to play, even with- members. For example, our Female Board arranges gym out a green card or without being a member of any club. training during the winter season. We have also attended –There are some open-for-all courses in the Southern lectures by a physiotherapist. Our Seniors Board often Finland, but this is the first one in Ostrobothnia area. organizes golf trips together. These kind of courses are very popular: anyone can try All in all, golf is a very social sport. what golf feels like by just paying the greenfee. It also Because the rounds are played in comes in handy for the members and partners, when small groups of people, you get to there’s no time for the full 18 holes. hang out with new people all the time and you get to know different WHY GOLF? kinds of people. Why not golf, one could ask. There are plenty of reasons –And our community isn’t a why everyone should give it a try. It’s a good exercise: closed one. We welcome every each round includes an average of eight kilometers of person to join us! walking. Being a low intensity exercise, golf suits people of all ages and sizes. It’s a perfect hobby for nature Kråklund golf park's name comes from crow (kråk in swedish).
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