RISI's cost benchmarking service covers over 2,500 pulp, paper & board machines in about 1,400 mills thoughout the world and provides subscribers with machine level and/or mill level product cost profiles. It is provided by way of the Analytical Cornerstone tool, a user interface connected to a database of information and delivered as a web download to user's desk or lap-top computer.

Proven, powerful and reliable

RISI's cost benchmarking data is available in two formats - single grade or complete subscription, all delivered via our powerful Analytical Cornerstone ® software, so you can get a thorough analysis on each mill's production process, manipulate that information as needed and export it to Excel.

When you select a single grade, the Analytical Cornerstone framework provides potent, thorough analytical capabilities such as:

• Detailed report results, including aggregate cost curves highlighting the different benchmark sub-grades, detailed cash and delivery costs and more
• Machine-by-machine listing, detailing the production process and manufacturing costs by natural category
• Efficiency measures (labor productivity and paper machine productivity by mill)
• Individual paper machine information and capacities
• Fiber furnishes by individual paper machine
• Tailor the software to your company's specific areas of cost focus or specific mill/machine/company
• Measure cost competitiveness across all natural manufacturing categories-fiber, chemicals, fuel, electricity, hourly and salary labor, maintenance and delivery

"Analytical Cornerstone provides us with a consistent view of industry manufacturing cost levels and a ranking of the relative performance for individual assets." Jon Rager, Forest Products Industry Leader, GE Capital.

Or maybe you need to have your mill and machine-level data updated continuously and/or to be able to perform analysis on multiple grades?

Then sign up for a subscription to Analytical Cornerstone and tap into all of the data provided for more than 1,400 mills and 2,500 machines worldwide and have the ability to:

• Generate adjustable cost curves for competitive analysis
• Compare cost structures of individual mills and machines from anywhere in the globe
• Build extensive scenarios for mills and machines with Scenario Manager®
• See delivery cost curves
• Explore short and metric ton coverage
• Generate flow sheets

The results:

• Find the best mills, machines and practices
• Compare and understand regional cost structures
• Build a new simulated mill or machine and see how that impacts a cost curve
• Build scenarios to see how exchange rate changes impact your cost competitiveness

Delve deeper into Analytical Cornerstone

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