Table 12.—Paper production,' Brazil, 1955-61 
Kind of paper 1955 1956 
1957 1958 1959 | 1960 1961 
Thousand | Thousand | Thousand | Thousand | Thousand | Thousand | Thousand 
metric tons | metric tons | metric tons | metric tons | metric tons | metric tons | metric tons 
Sy SDR Set Soa goa e ann poe e aan toe ee Bits 27 39. 4 49.0 63.4 67.2 65.8 62.3 
CRUG EOE TT ee Bea o Sane reas 29.5 65.3 61.7 TED 2.8 85. 0 97.1 
RITES Frese 5 BG Ae eet ena ee 44. 2 46. 4. 45.6 52 53.9 59.6 64. 1 
Mira pin gey yn eens teas os ee es | 155. 2 181.8 169.9 193.1 205.3 219.9 230. 3 
SENSE Da, Re Se eee ae 33. 4 47.6 36. 4 Dono 40. 7 44. 1 47.9 
| | 
Tine ae oc Sa eee esa es 299.5 380.5 | 362.6 416.5 | 439.9 | 474. 4. | SOlaz 
1 Excludes paperboard. 
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100 | | 
OY (AN ence se z : Special 
50 : \ board 
1958 1959 1960 1963 Projected 
Figure 26.—Estimated paperboard production, by product, 
Brazil, 1958-60, and 1963 expected output based on 
planned expansion. 
a little more than half; more than two-thirds of all 
paper is produced in the 2 States of Sao Paulo and 
. Parana (table 13). Paperboard production, at 
) 15.000 metric tons in 1960, is expected to increase 
/ to 243,000 tons in 1963, with a substantial increase 
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in container board and an expanding use of folding 
boxboard and special food board (fig. 26). Since 
1957, expansion of the pulp and paper industry has 
brought some reduction in the amount of pulp and 
paper imports and, as the capacity of the industry 
increases, further reduction in such imports can be 
expected. 
Paranda pine pulpwood and sawmill waste furnished 
half of the raw material for the 1960 pulp production 
(table 14). Practically all the mechanical pulp and 
four-fifths of the sulfite pulp were made from Parana 
pine. Eucalyptus wood exceeded Parand pine as the 
principal raw material for sulfate pulp. Soda and 
semichemical pulp were made from all available 
material suitable for the purpose. All dissolving 
pulp was made from cotton linters. Among other 
economic factors, the shift of the Paulista Railroad 
Co. from wood to diesel fuel, which released large 
quantities of wood from their extensive eucalyptus 
plantations for pulp manufacture, accelerated the 
recent expansion of the pulp industry. 
Many pulp and paper companies are engaged in 
important expansion programs. In 1960 alone, 20 
new pulp and paper companies were organized. 
With the completion of development now in progress, 
pulp output is expected to reach 660,000 metric tons 
in 1963. 
Fiberboard and Particle Board 
The two existing plants, located near Sao Paulo, 
produced about 37,000 metric tons of hard and soft 
fiberboard in 1960. The product is made from 
eucalyptus wood and sold under the trade names 
Eucatex and Duratex. There has been little in- 
crease in recent years. 
Particle board output by two companies at Sao 
Paulo has also remained small. increasing, however, 
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