📄 Industry · Paper Mills
Your paper machine is running.
But which reel is for which order and at what GSM?
From pulp preparation to dispatch — live visibility across every paper manufacturing and converting stage. Track reel quantities, machine speed and quality parameters, and order fulfilment without manual register entries.
Paper mills — reel and order visibility live
As featured in PrintWeek India, April 2026
Your Production Flow
Every reel. Every batch. Every order tracked.
This is how a print job moves through your business. Clicarity gives you live visibility at every phase — and flags delays before they become client calls.
01
Pulp Preparation
4 stages
Raw Material Receipt
Pulp, waste paper, chemicals, and additives received and tested.
✓ Clicarity: Material lot recorded — traceability from pulp to finished reel
Pulping
Raw material pulped in hydrapulper to required consistency.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: pulp consistency off — stock preparation time extended
Refining
Pulp refined to required freeness for paper grade.
✓ Clicarity: Freeness value logged — paper machine cannot start without sign-off
Stock Preparation
Pulp blended with fillers, sizing agents, and additives per grade recipe.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: chemical dosing error — entire batch off-spec
02
Paper Machine
4 stages
Forming / Wire Section
Stock formed into paper web on fourdrinier or cylinder mould.
✓ Clicarity: Machine speed and formation quality logged
Pressing Section
Web pressed to remove water and consolidate sheet.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: press roll nip problem — sheet breaks increase, production lost
Drying Section
Web dried through steam-heated drying cylinders.
✓ Clicarity: Moisture at reel logged — off-spec moisture flagged before reeling
Reeling
Finished paper reeled onto parent reel.
✓ Clicarity: Reel ID created, weight and GSM logged — reel allocated to order
03
Finishing & Converting
4 stages
Calendering / Supercalendering
Reel calendered for required smoothness and gloss.
Slitting / Rewinding
Parent reel slit to customer-specified width and rewound.
✓ Clicarity: Slit reel weight and metres tracked — order fulfilment visible
Sheet Cutting
Reels cut to sheet size where required.
✓ Clicarity: Sheet count vs order quantity confirmed
Quality Testing
Reel samples tested for GSM, brightness, strength, and moisture.
✓ Clicarity: Test results logged — dispatch blocked until pass
04
Dispatch
2 stages
Packing & Labelling
Reels or ream packs wrapped and labelled per customer spec.
✓ Clicarity: Dispatch weight vs order weight confirmed
Dispatch
Order dispatched with test report, GSM certificate, and challan.
✓ Clicarity: Full reel traceability from pulp lot to customer delivery
Where Paper Mills Lose Output & Margin
Real bottlenecks. Real costs. Real fixes.
These are the patterns Clicarity helps businesses identify and fix within the first few weeks.
Machine Breaks
Paper machine breaks averaging 40 minutes — causes unknown
Tracking break events revealed 40% of all breaks were caused by one issue — wet end formation problems — which could be traced to stock consistency variation. Root cause addressed. Average break frequency reduced 45% and average break recovery time reduced from 40 to 18 minutes.
Machine break frequency and recovery time both reduced 45%
Off-Spec GSM
12% of production running off-spec GSM — discovered at quality test
Logging GSM at the reel stage showed 12% of reels were outside specification — the refiner settings were drifting without detection. With Clicarity, GSM is logged at reeling and flagged against spec. Off-spec production reduced to 3.2%.
Off-spec GSM production reduced from 12% to 3.2%
Order Shortfall
Customer order short by 800 kg — discovered at delivery
Slit reels were being dispatched without a weight reconciliation against the order. An order was short by 800 kg — discovered at the customer's warehouse. With Clicarity, dispatch requires weight confirmation against order. Short dispatch incidents: eliminated.
Short dispatch eliminated — weight confirmed before every dispatch
Real Printing Business. Real Results.
""Paper machine breaks were costing us 40 minutes average to get back to speed — but nobody was recording how long each break lasted or why. Now every break is a logged event. We identified the main cause in week one.""
What improves in paper mills using Clicarity
↓ 45%
Machine break downtime
↑ 32%
On-time order fulfilment
↓ 28%
Off-spec paper production
5 days
To go live — full setup included
One licence. Your entire operation.
No per-user fees. Full setup by the Clicarity team. Live in 5 days.
Single Licence
₹30,000
/ year
1 user · Annual licence
₹82 a day. Less than a daily meal for one person — for your entire team's visibility, all year.
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Multi Licence
₹55,000
/ year
Unlimited users · Annual licence
₹150 a day. Less than the cost of one missed delivery — for full visibility across your entire team.
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Annual billing · No hidden fees · Full setup included · Go live in 5 days
Questions from paper mills businesses
How does Clicarity work for a printing business specifically?
Clicarity is configured around your specific print workflow — pre-press, printing, finishing, dispatch — in your terminology. Every job gets a unique ID and moves through your defined stages. You see live status, timestamps, and bottleneck alerts at every stage. The Clicarity team builds everything for you. You go live in 5 days.
Does it work for both offset and digital printing?
Yes. Clicarity works for any print process — offset, digital, wide format, screen printing, or a combination. The stages are configured around your actual workflow. If offset jobs go through plate making and digital jobs skip that stage, both can be tracked correctly under the same system.
Can it track material wastage at each stage?
Yes — with the Multi Licence. At every stage, your team logs quantity in and quantity out. Clicarity calculates the loss automatically. You see wastage by stage, by job, live — not at month-end when nothing can be done about it.
Will my press operators actually use it?
Yes. The update screen has two fields — Job ID and status. Under a minute. No training needed. GP Offset's entire team was using it from day one, including floor workers who had never used a software system before.
See every reel. Every break. Before the order is short.
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