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SO:SIK PROBLEMS OF THE PULP AND PAPER 

 INDUSTRY 



D. C. Everest, Sccrctdrij and General Manager, MaraiJion 

 Paper Mills Com pan if 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen : 



In 2)resenting some of the j^roblems in which the Pulp and Paper 

 Industry is interested, I intend to deal only with those which relate to 

 the work of the Forest Products Laboratory and which we expect to 

 be able to solve by intelligent cooperation with this institution. 



In tlie beginning I wish to say that even though this laboratory 

 has been in existence for ten years, Paper and Pulp manufacturers 

 have not taken advantage of its remarkable facilities to any great ex- 

 tent, and, as a matter of fact, only comparatively few yet realize what 

 a wonderful asset we have in tliis institution. What I have said of 

 the Paper and Pulp industry, I believe applies equally as well to 

 other branches of industry represented here today and tliose which 

 have to deal with forest products in any form. 



Had we as manufacturers of forest materials awakened to the 

 value of the laboratory to us and taken the interest in it, which is now 

 apparently manifested, there Mould be fewer problems of our various 

 industries today. ]Men connected with this institution have, from the 

 time of its establishment, been anxious and wilhng to cooperate with 

 manufacturers in any way and have only been prevented from render- 

 ing greater service on account of the failure of manufacturers to ac- 

 quaint tile laboratory personnel witli the problems confronting them. 

 For ten years tlie men here liave tackled every prolilem which has been 

 put \\\) to them and have rendered invaluable service to those who have 

 realized tlie necessity of such work and have made use of the labora- 

 tory in the manner intended when this institution was established. 



The ])resent situation in the paper industry, abnormal as it is, 

 has directed the attention of more manufacturers to the need of imme- 

 diate and definite action in attacking the various problems with which 

 they are confronted. The attitude in the jjast has been to take advan- 

 tage of the improvements only as they have been made by a few pro- 



