The CLT Cold Press Calculator estimates cross-laminated timber press production capacity using operating schedules, billet dimensions, lamella sizes, and process timing. Users can adjust shifts, breaks, downtime, order availability, and upstream or downstream delays to evaluate their effect on annual output.

• The calculator determines billet thickness, lamella quantities and lengths, layup time, and glue cure time. Production inputs include glue spreader speed, loading and unloading speed, squeeze and release time, press empty time, and the frequency of double-stacked billets.
• Results include available and productive hours per year, operational readiness, annual net production volume, hourly production rates, and estimated fibre loss. Metric and Imperial units are supported, with reset and print options for comparing and recording production scenarios.