Context / scope of project : This Greenfield technology had been in place for 3 years, have never reached full capacity and was plagued with quality problems which in turn were harming other sites within this division. Our brief was to fix this quality problem, reduce costs, improve availability and throughput and return the site to profit.

PIP and client achieved:
	EBITDA increased from $0m to $12m
	Production up by 31%
	Variable cost down 22%
	Total downtime reduced from 11 to 4 hrs/wk
	Renegotiated wastepaper prices down $5.4m
	14% reduction in dirt
	Average payback on initiatives <4 weeks
	Overcame technical and quality constraints to enable 300% increase in usage by downstream mills
	Successful sale after 15 months