PAPER PULP
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS AUSTRALIAN TIMBERS SUITABLE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, July 21. (Received July 21, at 12.35 p.m.) The Institute of Science and Industry reports that its investigations regarding the production of paper pulp were highly successful. /They showed that tho uso of certain varieties of Australian timbers for the commercial production of paper was a promising proposition. The work of tho institute had aimed mainly at the production of soda pulp for high-grade papers. More recently the sulphite method for newsprint had been investigated, and had given such promising results that the production of newsprint was being undertaken in Tasmania on a one ton per day plant, and if the results continued satisfactory the establishment of the industry on the basis of an expenditure of £5,000,000 to £6,000,000 in the course of the next five or six years was assured. Very promising results had been obtained from Finns insignis pulp, which was found eminently suitable for tho manufacture of strong brown paper. Largo quantities of this timber are available, and the council is arranging for further tests, which it is believed will lead to commercial exploitation on a large scale.
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Evening Star, Issue 19614, 21 July 1927, Page 9
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