Paper can be fabricated from all different kinds of materials such as, reeds, flax, cotton, and even bagasse (sugarcane pulp). However, the majority of paper products are made from treated wood fibers ...

The expensive, energy-intensive process of turning wood into paper costs the pulp and paper industries more than $6 billion a year. Much of that expense involves separating wood's cellulose from ...

The chemical pulping process was discovered in the nineteenth century, and allowed wood to be pulped for strong, white, long-lasting paper. The goal of chemical pulping is to remove all the parts of ...