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Chapter 25 



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PAPER BOARD 

 PRODUCTION 



1950 



1955 



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1965 



1970 

 YEAR 



1975 



1980 



1985 



1990 



Figure 25-8. — Paperboard production in the United States, 1950-1980, by category. 

 Combination furnish is sometimes termed "recycled". (Drawing after Whitney 1980; 

 data from the American Paper Institute.) 



percent for paperboard. He suggested that world consumption of printing and 

 writing paper, which includes coated papers, will grow at a faster rate than that 

 for total paper and paperboard consumption. 



The future of printed magazines in a world that increasingly uses radio, 

 television, and computers for information transfer, has been questioned by 

 some. Gardner (1980), however, concluded that the future for magazines is 

 promising; magazine readership has grown steadily as competitive information 

 technologies have matured. 



Energy consumption. — The southern pulp industry is increasing its self- 

 sufficiency in energy. In 1977 about 40 percent of total energy used by southern 

 pulp mills came from spent pulping liquors burned in recovery furnaces, and 

 about 10 percent from bark and other mill residues. The remaining 50 percent 

 was mostly derived from purchased fossil fuels (Whitney 1980). In spite of 

 industry efforts to reduce use of fossil fuel, however, the cost of such fuel 



