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Pulp Made Where the Wood Grows!

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  • Pulp madeWhere theWood QwwsWauje increases/ A huge log is a rather unwieldy thing to handle. It doesn't permit of much stuffing into freight cars. It costs freight, every mile, all the time. The log is one of the inevitables in the paper-making industry. The sooner this log can be converted into pulp the lower the expense will be. The source of Champion's supply of wood is literally at the back door of the Pulp mill, and will remain so because of almost unlimited forest reserves. It is an interesting fact, that many other paper mills were located at the From the 100,000 cord wood yard the pulp wood is handled on conveyors, and reaches first the mechanical barkers, where undesirable parts are removed. Then to the chippers which cut hundreds of cords of wood a day into flake-like chips, which are then conveyed to the screening room for screening to uniform size.
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