PULP, PAPER, AND BY-PRODUCTS 



Pacific Coast, built a -big, sulfate cellulose plant at 

 Fernandina, Florida. They did not jump across the 

 continent blindfolded. They shipped tankcars of local 

 water along with cords of pinewood from Florida to 

 Washington for their pilot-plant trials, to make the as- 

 surance of their high quality alpha cellulose doubly 

 sure. The product of that new Southern mill of theirs 

 has gone into all types of cellulose products from mil- 

 linery trimmings to photographic film. 



Chemical cellulose from Southern sulfate pulp cannot 

 be "too bad," and more of it is going to be made and 

 sold in the coming years. Three, at least, of the big 

 kraft mill managements have delved into this postwar 

 prospect and worked out the details of necessary modi- 

 fications in their operations to produce it. This takes a 

 bit of doing chemical adroitness and considerable 

 stainless-steel apparatus but there is talk of a Southern 

 production of over a million tons of chemical cellulose 

 in the near future. And that talk is not cocktail hour 

 gossip. 



Diversification of this sort within an established 

 Southern industry is very healthy. But more newsprint 

 and alpha pulp are not the only additional products that 

 will be coming from the paper mills. The Southern 

 paper industry is beginning to turn its own wastes into 

 new wealth, and will bring to the market at an oppor- 

 tune time lignin, furfural, tall oil, and turpentine. 



After the big, initial investment in plant, a paper com- 

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