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Just down the road from where I live.
There are several paper mills along the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington states. Some of these mills make tissue paper. Elsewhere, mills are usually sited near a source of wood fiber and a large body of water, since paper mills us a lot of water in processing.
First, pulpwood is received. For the most part, this is deciduous wood. One source is timber that is not marketable for lumber; cottonwood and alder are the most common pulpwood species around here. Another source is plantation-grown, fast-growing poplar or cottonwood. These species are preferable due to very white wood that requires little bleaching to make white paper.
The wood is chipped. The chips are mixed with water and a few other chemicals including bleach, then heated. This removes the lignin that binds the wood fibers, rendering it into pulp.
Pulp looks a lot like if you soaked toilet tissue in water and stirred it up.
The pulp is then dyed (if colored tissue is desired), rolled out into a thin layer, dried, and then rolled into enormous rolls several feet wide and in diameter.
The rolls are then taken to a converting mill, often on the same plant site.
The converting mill layers, embosses, and rerolls or folds the tissue into toilet paper, paper towels, facial tissue, dinner napkins, or other, similar products
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Typically in the US, one of the wood and paper behemoths will have as one of their many larger paper units, the Health and Beauty Aides papers like bath and facial tissue, and the whole damp towelette niche.
TP is made in gigantic quantities, on single ply rolls the size of your garage. Later it is multi-plied, embossed, cut to a consumer sized roll, and scented for the tender bum…. My bottom has no sense of smell, so I always thought using scented paper was silly.
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Wherever there's a large source of timber processing going on for decades and a river as toilet paper's processed wood pulp and water that's then dried with electrical heat. The big toilet paper producers (a 19th century invention) have typically been wood products and/or paper makers like Kimberly-Clark Paper, Scott Paper, Georgia-Pacific, etc.. Most wood pulp in recent decades comes from the fast-growing pine forests of the American southeast or Southern Canada.
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3 Answers
Updated 2d ago · Author has 2.6k answers and 5.3m answer views
Just down the road from where I live.
There are several paper mills along the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington states. Some of these mills make tissue paper. Elsewhere, mills are usually sited near a source of wood fiber and a large body of water, since paper mills us a lot of water in processing.
First, pulpwood is received. For the most part, this is deciduous wood. One source is timber that is not marketable for lumber; cottonwood and alder are the most common pulpwood species around here. Another source is plantation-grown, fast-growing poplar or cottonwood. These species are preferable due to very white wood that requires little bleaching to make white paper.
The wood is chipped. The chips are mixed with water and a few other chemicals including bleach, then heated. This removes the lignin that binds the wood fibers, rendering it into pulp.
Pulp looks a lot like if you soaked toilet tissue in water and stirred it up.
The pulp is then dyed (if colored tissue is desired), rolled out into a thin layer, dried, and then rolled into enormous rolls several feet wide and in diameter.
The rolls are then taken to a converting mill, often on the same plant site.
The converting mill layers, embosses, and rerolls or folds the tissue into toilet paper, paper towels, facial tissue, dinner napkins, or other, similar products
-------------------------------------------
Typically in the US, one of the wood and paper behemoths will have as one of their many larger paper units, the Health and Beauty Aides papers like bath and facial tissue, and the whole damp towelette niche.
TP is made in gigantic quantities, on single ply rolls the size of your garage. Later it is multi-plied, embossed, cut to a consumer sized roll, and scented for the tender bum…. My bottom has no sense of smell, so I always thought using scented paper was silly.
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Wherever there's a large source of timber processing going on for decades and a river as toilet paper's processed wood pulp and water that's then dried with electrical heat. The big toilet paper producers (a 19th century invention) have typically been wood products and/or paper makers like Kimberly-Clark Paper, Scott Paper, Georgia-Pacific, etc.. Most wood pulp in recent decades comes from the fast-growing pine forests of the American southeast or Southern Canada.
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