Deckle Optimization for Every
Converting Industry

Deckle Plus is designed for any converting operation that cuts wide-reel paper or board to narrower finished widths: Kraft paper mills, Duplex board plants, Cylinder Mould board mills, coated and newsprint producers, BOPP and masking tape manufacturers, self-adhesive label printers, flexible packaging converters, corrugated board producers, and tissue and nonwoven converters. The platform scales from 5 t/day small converters to 500+ t/day integrated mill groups.

Yes. The Starter plan is specifically designed for small converting operations, supporting a single machine with planner and operator accounts. Small mills benefit immediately from replacing manual whiteboard planning. Deckle Plus eliminates 1-2 hours of manual calculation per shift and delivers consistently optimized patterns, even for a single machine with one operator. Go-live takes 48 hours and requires no IT team.

Yes. All three order types coexist in the same pending order queue in Deckle Plus. REEL orders are optimized by width. SHEET orders add a length dimension: the optimizer calculates pass count and cut-out waste between sheets automatically. THERMAL orders include core inner diameter and OD specification fields per roll. The planner selects which orders to include in each production run, and the optimizer applies the correct calculation logic for each type.

Yes. Corrugated board plants configure their corrugator's deckle width and flute-specific blade count constraints, and manage liner and medium inventory separately. Flexible packaging converters configure laminate structures as paper types and track yield per structure per run. The optimization engine is grade-agnostic and works with whatever deckle width, blade count, and waste targets are configured for the machine.

Excel can store data and do arithmetic, but it cannot solve the cutting stock problem, the combinatorial optimization at the heart of deckle planning. A human planner evaluating combinations manually considers 10-20 options in an hour. Deckle Plus evaluates all valid combinations simultaneously in under one second and selects the provably optimal or near-optimal solution. The difference in trim waste (typically 2.5% manual versus 0.4% optimized) represents $20,000-$40,000 per month in raw material savings for a 50 t/day mill.