PULP, PAPER, AND BY-PRODUCTS 



could know the brand she was purchasing, the trans- 

 parent sheets were loaded with titanium pigments, mak- 

 ing them opaque so as to take printing. There are styles 

 in packaging, just as unpredictable as the heroes of 

 the bobby socks brigades. 



"The growth and strengthening of the Southern paper 

 industry, as we see it," he went on thoughtfully, "are 

 coming through diversification. More and more mills 

 are equipping to bleach, and bleached pulp will be more 

 important. We are going to use more hardwood, and a 

 lot more tissue paper will be made. Certainly expansion 

 is coming in alpha pulp for chemical processing. Com- 

 petition is going to be keen some of it, no doubt, from 

 imported Scandinavian pulp and because every penny 

 must count, all mills must pay more attention to re- 

 covering their by-products." 



Looking ahead at future Southern industrial develop- 

 ments, some of Henry Carruth's points bear examina- 

 tion. Let's start with the use of hardwood. Much of the 

 Southern second-growth timber is made up of hard- 

 wood. Half of these hardwoods gums, cottonwood, 

 poplar, maple, and bay can be pulped. The gums espe- 

 cially, as recently proved at the Herty Memorial Lab- 

 oratory in Savannah, pulp as readily as pine, take much 

 less chlorine for bleaching, and produce somewhat 

 larger yields with less steam and chemicals. Even such 

 dense woods as oak and hickory have been successfully 

 pulped by the kraft process. Carruth believes that to 



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