The Making of Pulp

Idaho's forests play an important role in making paper products. This video features Clearwater Paper Corporation's facility at Lewiston, Idaho. It shows how they turn wood chips and sawdust into pulp, the main ingredient used to make the many paper products we all use every day. Making pulp requires a lot of science and engineering and a commitment to the environment. Learn more about Idaho's forests at www.idahoforests.htm.

[@mbp2059]

This is probably the best paper-making video I've seen on youtube. Nice job!

[@wanjevi]

The v.v best

[@nicatmuslumov1009]

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[@pltking]

Thanks for uploading this it's great to see how things are made!!

[@claytonfabianmarinho]

Thanks a lot! The best pulp making video.

[@ThatBigCactus]

Cool video well edited & narrated

[@thorlong]

I happily learned something today~

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Great info for the Pulp and Paper Merit Badge

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Excellent explanation 😆👍

[@thies1155]

Best explanation out there!

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Great video!

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Impressive!

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Amazing video♥️

[@maralarkannia]

Very interesting and informative thank you

[@shamshu8012]

You are right

[@vijayababu2052]

The video has been very informative on how the lignin carbon fibre could be extracted and the process involved.

[@sukantapartha5198]

Thank you. so informative video

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[@sholay4520]

this is one of the best video uploaded for paper puliping process. did any one have the lecture of optimization in multi effect evaporator of kraft process /

[@tional5266]

omprakash verma I was hoping to learn more about the by product of pulp making which results in DMSO

[@michaeli3488]

The toilet paper shortage brought me here

[@tional5266]

Michael I haha ...you can thank our community (and my husband) for keeping you well stocked!! No one appreciates the people who make the toilet paper... until there’s no toilet paper 😍

[@guidedbyreason3619]

@@tional5266 You guys are heroes!

[@pyronuggets]

The reason I didn't quit the paper mill I work in was was because every time (we'd have a sheet break) I wanted to quit. I told myself some poor bastard is making that cheap 1 ply toilet paper and he's got u it rough lol while I'm making some 23lb paper

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😂😂😂😂

[@littlepinkpie_]

Love this

[@shamshu8012]

Absolutely good knowledge

[@DUDIDUAN]

Such an environmental friendly company

[@thlamuana2526]

Very informative

[@amartinjoe]

that is EFFICIENT!

[@tional5266]

amartinjoe and thanks to new improved machinery the community no longer stinks like rotten eggs! Unless there’s an inversion layer in the atmosphere you really can’t tell there’s a paper mill nearby

[@rajatpandey4302]

very nice

[@AstronautOmar]

How does one go about opening one of these manufacturers? What’s the process?

[@nomankhatri.]

Superb❤

[@thomasrichardson8327]

**Large chips are generally ran through a resizer and then fed back onto the feed conveyor into the screens

[@HuskyKMA]

I'm kind of sad that you just glossed over the Recovery Boiler and rest of the recovery process, but I get it, nobody ever thinks about us.

[@richie2dicks468]

Yea didn’t mention turning the smelt back into green liquor or how it’s clarified to remove dregs, slaking, lime mud recycling oh well

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[@KaiHeng]

Wat can be used as white liquor

[@sizor3ds]

Definitely not grey goose

[@manakisoni7856]

Make more videos on paper making

[@singhmukesh5531]

ty

[@rick6083]

I work for a environmental company and we work in paper mills cleaning tanks and etc but green liquor is bad stuff it has left me scars from blasting inside of a tank

[@26johnbeat]

U sound like u work for THOMPSON

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[@entertainmentishere7861]

nyc video

[@kellylin8364]

is lignin liquid or solid in wood chips?

[@user-ug8oi2oh5b]

I have a plan to do the same thing in my motherland Ethiopia if you have all process machinery I'll buy please let me know also it's every help full video .

[@sumayyagull7780]

thanks

[@TheGoldfarmer]

Wow

[@ireallytoucansam9821]

So is it safe to say that the process of making paper is more environmentally sound than we think? Are paper recycling mills/plants separate from these mills?

[@MistressOP]

hemp paper would be more cost-effective. this is just kinda a waste of solid trees. better to revert those forests into the native forest instead of agro forestry. Then use a hemp rotation on marginal farmland to build up the soil structure on that crap farmland.

[@ph11p3540]

Hemp has a lot of oils in it on par with mahogany. It could yield some natural oil byproducts at the cost of introducing a few extra steps in the manufacturing process. You could end up with a powerful hemp oil based disinfectant or floor cleaner. This would free up the open market for lumber and timber grade woods.

[@TheGrmany69]

There is straw, and cotton as well, they have been the traditional materials in Asia and Europe for paper making, Washi and Korean paper is made using bark of mulberry and paperbush which are relatively fast growing plants, aside mulberry is used to feed silk worms. Bamboo is another reliable source of cellulose, the South American bamboo or Guadua, AKA giant bamboo is a raw diamond because of the possibilities to produce said cellulose in huge quantities.

[@richie2dicks468]

Recycling is virtually no impact to the environment. My mill had a recycling plant for a secondary source of pulp and they basically put carboard bales into a big metal pot with hot water and an agitator to break it down and the run it through screens to separate plastic and metal etc.

[@richie2dicks468]

A be lot of the “smoke” you see is actually steam. Some of it does contain chemical discharge from the boilers and lime kilns but it’s all monitored and has to stay below certain thresholds.

[@markgray8707]

wanted to learn about the orange juice I was drinking, stayed for the paper.

[@dwb3150]

Interesting video and totally explained paper making but burning bark to power the plant is not green energy

[@tchamp72]

Sure it is. What else would they do with the bark? let it decompose? Guess what, when it decomposes, it lets off just as much CO2 as when it burns. The only difference is that burning releases it faster. The big benefit is if you burn it, you can get electricity out of it vs just wasting it. Lastly, wood is renewable. They plant fast growing trees that "soak" up the CO2 that they generate by burning, and they turn most of those trees into paper. Sounds pretty green to me.

[@dr.sumalathaakunuri6541]

really informative thank you

[@LeftLeft1]

Are you in paper Industry?

[@qzorn4440]

Is it practical to recycle paper? It seems like a good idea. 🥰 Thank you.

[@Bmacker1]

It is! There are a lot of mills in the US that run strictly on recycled paper. Most of them will produce brown paper used for higher strength applications. You'll also see it used as supplementary fiber in mills that typically run virgin fiber.

[@mlionea]

Looking for a pulp maker to set up a factory in Kenya

[@Barskor1]

Why return the water to the river if you are just going to take more water from the river? Just keep the cleaned-up water and only take river water to replace losses in the system.

[@khalilcorporation8447]

Please visit www.khalilcorporation.com for queries and inquiries regarding any sort of pulp, paper or secondary fibers.

[@texitilemachineprint]

enzyme for pulp treat

[@dianagama3390]

A lot of euphemisms to describe the process: white liquor instead of whatever chemical solution is used for lignin digestion, and so on. Liquor has a much more positive connotation than say corrosive solution, or strong base/acid.

[@michaelreifabc123]

Seattle

[@march11stoneytony]

How does burning wood chips to run a generator produce "green electricity"?

[@waynemerlo7448]

They don’t burn wood chips they burn hog fuel which is ground up bark mulch.

[@Rem694u2]

Just watched Ascendance of a Bookworm and wanted to know how to make paper from pulp. lol

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Legit the reason I came here

[@Killerabekat123]

same

[@michaeli3488]

The toilet paper shortage brought me here

[@im6976]

Prefer many paper which can be reduce thand a mountain of tablet/handphone that cant recycle

[@locitawardaningrum725]

what if its raining?? we could see the conveyor belt is opened up

[@richie2dicks468]

Makes no difference. Your talking about adding chemical that’s close to 200 degrees and steam that’s 400-600 lbs per square inch into the digester with them a little rain water won’t be noticeable. You run tests on the pulp to make minor adjustment to steam and chemical amounts and cook times. Worst thing is cold weather when the chips can slide back down the belts or the belt itself starts slipping. Can make for a long shift fighting to keep them running to feed the digesters

[@TheGrmany69]

So the white liquor is quick lime / calcium hydroxide I new it had to be some kind of alkaline solution.

[@jasonshen1202]

also Magnesium oxide been used. I am selling this MgO to paper and Pulp mills.

[@TheGrmany69]

@@jasonshen1202 Yeah, intensity varies but alkaline solutions out of metal oxides are commonplace throughout different industries, soap and fur tanneries use them as well to turn oil into soap or protein into not spoilable proteins.

[@randomkidsplayinggames8370]

We watched this for school

[@shadow_parker2786]

we have a wood pulp but its big promise no lie

[@richie2dicks468]

Man that truck dump was leaking bad

[@Loganathanar]

Clear cut explanation

[@Justin95386]

I can smell it.

[@sanjaypaliwal6932]

use subtitles

[@rashkavar]

I'm concerned that whoever made this video thinks that burning bark and such (hogfuel) is green energy. The fact that it's not a fossil fuel does make it *renewable* but renewable pollution sources are still pumping out combustion byproducts, which is the main problem with using fossil fuels for power generation. What's more, since it's not had the millennia of compression that slowly alters wood into a more and more high energy state, you actually need to burn more of it to get the same amount of energy. Congratulations, your renewable energy is literally worse for the environment than coal power. That's genuinely impressive!

[@pyronuggets]

As true as this is you might consider the waste that is burned is mainly tree tops and bark which is very helpful considering the logistics of logging and tree removal and the economic point of view for companies as well considering there is no other use for this stuff except waiting for it to rot into dirt again

[@rashkavar]

@@pyronuggets Expediency is not what defines green energy. I'm not saying "don't do it" just...don't trick yourself into thinking you're doing the environment a solid and don't need to worry about emission mitigation.

[@pyronuggets]

@@rashkavar oh I understand. I'm only saying that it's probably a well suited plan which works onmore than 1 level. One day I'm sure a better practice can be found to suit all these needs

[@toomanymarys7355]

Gasification temperatures are used. There are virtually no byproducts except water and carbon dioxide.

[@kingsheras9202]

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[@gamerman732]

"Green"

[@happysheep6097]

Ihavenomemory lmao

[@happysheep6097]

“Environmentally sound” and they are using bleach 🤣

[@richie2dicks468]

Happy Sheep most mills no long use bleach to “bleach the pulp. You can’t get a permit to use it anymore.

[@jkotarsky]

I produce a lot of sawdust, and wanted to make paper. I changed my mind, what good is paper anyway? I don't need no paper! I decided it's too simple. I'll stick to the hard projects. Soaking up oil spills.

[@HeinerRadau]

:-OOOO

[@jacquelinejacqueline9509]

U forgot to say AND IN FOOD.

[@rileypoot8663]

if you call burning wood shavings green lool

[@richie2dicks468]

Its a renewable resource and has very low emissions compared to coal or fuel oil.

[@samatapagariya3534]

Gutka. Mat. Khana

[@KomodoV2]

wood is burned to run the ''green energy turbines'' , thats doesnt make sense buddy

[@richie2dicks468]

Why not? Its a highly renewable resource and burns clean. Learn more about power boilers and there precipitators for better understanding

[@NorthernGoshawk]

Quite a bit of propaganda in there....

[@richie2dicks468]

Like what

[@Butttsack]

Why do you need access to "new" water if your discharge water is so clean? Why not just store discharge water and make your water use closed loop?