What's the hidden tax on your plant?
One person can edit the plan, so everyone else queues. Estimators spend the week re-keying. Every gap gets plugged with another spreadsheet. None of it shows up as a line on the P&L, and you pay it every year anyway.
Work out what it costs you. Two ways in, both below.
You know the drill.
The schedule catches up with reality at the end of the shift, not before. Hot jobs get settled by whoever shouts loudest, and every job's a hot job. Somebody genuinely talented spends their week feeding spreadsheets instead of doing the job you hired them for.
None of it appears as a line on the P&L. You pay it anyway: in overtime, in board bought twice, in lorries going out half full, in the quote that went back a day late.
And the system underneath it? The renewal goes up. The support queue gets longer. The roadmap's gone quiet.
- Cumberland Packaging, one of the UK's top independent sheet plants, chose Amtech in July 2026.
- 1,250+ packaging plants worldwide run on Amtech.
- Coleman Containers (Canada): scheduling automated from a standing start, on-time-in-full above 95%.
- Nelson Container (US): planning time cut, scheduling accuracy up.
Two ways to get the number
Two minutes
Work it out yourself
Six questions about your plant: revenue, board spend, production cost, freight, your waste rate, and who's tied up in scheduling and chasing. You get a modelled figure in GB pounds, with a lever-by-lever breakdown and the assumptions behind each line.
No demo, no obligation, no pitch. And where your plant is already ahead - if your waste is already class-leading, for example - it tells you so rather than promising savings that aren't there.
45 minutes
Work it out with someone
A call with someone who knows sheet plants. Bring rough figures, and we'll test them against the model: which two or three levers carry the money for a plant your size, which ones don't, and what changing would honestly involve - phasing, dual running, going live in a quiet week.
Not a demo, and nothing to decide on the call. If the maths doesn't clear your bar, you'll know inside 45 minutes.
Most people start with the calculator - it's quicker, and you can always bring the number to a call afterwards. Nothing stops you from doing both.
Four fields, then the calculator.
No demo, no obligation. You'll have your number before you speak to anyone.
Your figures stay yours. No demo, no obligation, no pitch.
Is this a demo in disguise?
No. The calculator gives you a number in two minutes without speaking to anyone. The cost review is a diagnostic, not a demo, and there's nothing to decide on the call.
Is anyone in the UK actually using this?
Yes. A UK corrugated plant signed in July and is implementing now.
We haven't got the appetite for another go-live.
Understood - and it's the right question to ask early rather than late. When you do want to talk about what changing actually involves, we'll cover phasing, dual running and going live in a quiet week whether you ask or not.