RISI's Cost Benchmarking Service supports more effective strategic and operational decision-making by providing product manufacturing costs for over 2,500 pulp, paper and board machines in over 1,600 mills around the globe, covering all machine pulp and paper grades plus select wood grades.

RISI's cost benchmarking data is available in three formats, to best support a full range of business needs.

Choose our grade-specific reports in CD format, or one of our customized reports, if your requirements are only limited to a single to several grades. Learn more

Or if you need to perform analysis and/or have interest in numerous grades, choose our Analytical Cornerstone® software, a database providing detailed and customizable global machine and mill-level product cost data.

All of our cost benchmarking data, includes comprehensive information, detailing:

• Facility summary, including ownership, process description, furnish, energy, manning and analysis of strengths and weaknesses
• Cost of supply estimate by grade, product and natural expense category:
  • Fiber
  • Chemicals
  • Fuel
  • Electricity
  • Hourly & Salaried Labor
  • Maintenance and Materials
• Analyze cost structures of different machines at mills

Analytical Cornerstone is a proven and detailed tool for performing cost profiles on over 1,600 mills and 2,500 machines around the globe, including:

• Cost-of-supply curves, broken down into natural expense categories
• Mill and machine-level cost and consumption analysis, broken down into different sub-grades
• Mill-specific flow sheets showing each mill's process details
• Quarterly updated unit costs

This potent solution offers the ability to:

• Generate adjustable cost curves for competitive analysis
• Compare cost structures of individual mills and machines
• 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
• Build scenarios to see how exchange rate changes impact your cost competitiveness

Delve deeper into Analytical Cornerstone

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