ECS Wood Vector. Paper Mill

Paper Mill

Drawn by George, inspired by Paper mill by BerberJesus

General data

Paper mills process wood products and refined products and produce paper. Paper mills can be built by a player. Building cost is £515,504. Paper mills have 1 possible layout.

Paper mill production is shown in the table (production data is calculated for 8 cycles a month. During game play, there are 8 or 9 cycles, while the total amount of distributed cargo is adjusted with property for minimal amount of cargo distributed).

The industry processes wood products and refined products at the same time and both are required for production. The industry can't produce paper from wood products without refined products and from refined products without wood products unless refined products are not defined.

Level	Cycles	Paper	Wood products	Refined products
Very low	1	72	96	8
Low	2	144	192	16
Normal	4	288	384	32
High	9	648	864	72
Very high	19	1368	1824	152
Ultimate	41	2952	3936	328

Production change

Changing production level is calculated by comparing the min of wood products waiting and refined products waiting * 9 with the value shown in the table.

The industry can increase production level by one, and decrease it to any level. Increasing production on normal and higher production levels also requires that at least 50% of goods are transported.

When the industry has a very low production level and does not have enough cargo waiting, it tests close down conditions. Industries in service have a close down chance reduced by 50%. Newly built industries can be closed only if they are at least 2 years old. Industries, built by the random map generator or map editor, can be closed only if they are at least 5 years old. A close down chance is 2% and there is an 8% chance for increasing production.

Level	Decrease	Increase
Very low	108	324
Low	227	681
Normal	475	1425
High	1004	3012
Very high	2095	6285
Ultimate	4406

Stockpile size

Cargo acceptance is limited by storage capacity. If the stockpile is in overflow, the industry stops accepting cargo until the stockpile is down to 75% of capacity, at which point the industry will start accepting cargo again.

Wood products	Wood products (75%)	Refined products	Refined products (75%)
1597	1197	336	252
2281	1711	480	360
3259	2444	686	515
4655	3491	980	735
6650	4988	1400	1050
9500	7125	2000	1500

Possible location

Paper mills should be built close to water (2 - 4 tiles) on flat land. They can't be built near other paper mills, printing works, sawmills or refineries.