Pulp (paper)
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Pulp is a fibrous lignocellulosic material prepared by chemically, semi-chemically, or mechanically isolating the cellulosic fibers of wood, fiber crops, waste paper, or rags. Mixed with water and oth
Structural fibres of pulp
Pulp at a paper mill near Pensacola, 1947
Fibres in wood pulp
A wood-chip stockpile with elevated conveyor systems
Kraft process
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The kraft pulping process, or simply kraft or sulfate process is a preeminent industrial process for conversion of wood into wood pulp, a product that consists of almost pure cellulose fibres, the mai
Pulp (paper)
…had become the dominant means of producing wood pulp, surpassing mechanical pulping methods. The competing chemical pulping process, the sulfate, or kraft, process, was developed by Carl F. Dahl in 1879; the first kraft mill started, in Sweden, in 1890. The invention of the recovery boiler, by G.H. Tomlinson…
A kraft paper mill in The Pas, Manitoba
Woodchips for paper production
A roll of kraft paper
Forchem tall oil refinery in Rauma, Finland