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The paper mill uses an alkaline papermaking process to turn the ECF pulp into paper.
After stock preparation, liquid pulp is spread onto moving wires where water is drained from both above and below to produce even sided paper. The semi-dry sheet is then run through heated drying cylinders to evaporate the remaining water.
Once dried, the sheet of paper passes between immense rolls of heated steel to compress and smooth the surface of the sheet. As the paper is rolled, its characteristics are examined: moisture content, smoothness, weight and opacity are checked.
Each finished roll holds 50 tons of paper. These large rolls are then cut into smaller rolls, wrapped, and either supplied to customers or converted into folio sheets or office paper.
The finished products are wrapped in protective wrappers before being palletized and wrapped once more to protect the product during shipping.