Arctic Paper has contracted Greycon to upgrade to their system with Greycon’s latest scheduling and trim optimisation solutions, opt-Studio and X-Trim.

In 2002 Greycon first implemented S-Plan and X-Trim at Arctic Paper’s paper mills based in Kostrzyn, Poland. Since then Artic Paper has been a long-standing client of Greycon’s.

Arctic Paper Kostrzyn S.A. is the largest manufacturer of offset papers in Poland. The mill produces over 280,000 tonnes of high quality papers both in reels and sheets every year. More than 75% of this is exported to countries like Germany, Great Britain, France and the Benelux.

Greycon’s solutions have been fundamental to the continued success of Arctic Paper’s production. The Greycon planning solution tightly integrated with the Mill’s manufacturing execution systems forms a critical component in the daily management of Arctic Paper’s operation.

Esa Orola, Global Consultancy Manager of Greycon says “We are really pleased with the results and project execution at Arctic Paper. The Kostrzyn team are able to improve their performance with our latest solutions. It has been really nice to witness. Arctic Paper wanted this project managed by Greycon and to work closely with the Greycon team to adopt the recommended best practices across the operation.”

The migration to opt-Studio and X-Trim’s latest releases has delivered additional benefits to Arctic Paper. There is improved usability and performance, compared to the existing daily scheduling solution from Greycon, which kept the mill in operation 24/7. Incoming orders are automatically scheduled into runs and trimmed with market leading algorithms to minimise waste at the winder and cutter machines.

“One of the benefits we are really pleased with in the new Greycon solution is the enhanced functionality. There is quite a lot in there. One exceptional aspect worth mentioning is that the other departments did not even notice that the old system disappeared and a new one came instead. This means of course that the integration was functioning very smoothly from day one. The implementation team were excellent and completed thorough tests to make this happen.”  says Mr. Piotr Stolowski, Planning and Supply Chain Manager, from Arctic Paper.

About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operates throughout Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of planning, scheduling and MES software solutions for Paper & Board, Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals and Converting industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
www.greycon.com

About Arctic Paper
Arctic Paper S.A. delivers value, reading pleasure and a sense of touch through quality paper grades.

As a leading European producer of high-quality graphic papers, with annual revenues of approximately PLN 3 billion company is listed on the Warsaw and the NASDAQ Stockholm stock exchanges.

Annually, Arctic Paper delivers over 700,000 tonnes of premium graphic paper – for quality printing, reading and branding purposes – produced by more than 1,250 dedicated employees at three mills and distributed by 14 sales offices. Arctic Paper prioritises a strategy of sharp focus on cost minimising, on flexibility and on efficiency of different units in order to further strengthen the market share in the mature and declining paper market.
www.arcticpaper.com

Press Contact: Mari Nisbet, mnb@greycon.com, + 44 (0)207 978 0700

Constantine Goulimis, CEO at Greycon, will be one of the Keynote speakers and will be presenting a paper on KBP: A New Pattern Reduction Heuristic for the Cutting Stock Problem at the upcoming OR Society Annual Conference (OR59).

OR59 will be taking place on 12-14^th September 2017 in Loughborough University, UK. There will be plenary speakers, keynote speakers, around 200 paper presentations in streams ranging from analytics to transport, the unique practitioner/academic collaboration sessions, a varied social programme plus much more.

Constantine will be presenting results for two variants on a new type of heuristic, which is computationally cheap and nicely complements previous ones. The paper is the result of on-going research to reduce the number of slitting patterns, a matter of great importance in some applications, particularly the plastic film industry, where the slitting process can become a bottleneck.

To find out more about OR59 or to book your place to see Greycon’s presentation please visit www.theorsociety.com

About OR Society
Founded over 60 years ago in succession to the Operational Research Club which was set up in 1948, The UK’s OR Society is the world’s oldest-established learned society catering to the Operational Research (O.R.) profession, and one of the largest in the world, with 2,700 members in 66 countries.
www.theorsociety.com

About Greycon
Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling and manufacturing execution systems that have been designed specifically for roll-based & flat sheet industries. Greycon operate throughout the world. Greycon’s strength is the extensive range of specialist software solutions for Paper & Board, Plastic Films & Flexible Packaging, Nonwovens, Metals and Converting industries supported by powerful optimisation algorithms and a highly experienced team of consultants.
www.greycon.com

Press Contact: Mari Nisbet, mnb@greycon.com, + 44 207 978 0700