Nine employees remain missing after a chemical tank ruptured at a facility in Washington state, resulting in multiple ...

Mixing dangerous chemicals with high temperatures and pressure can amount to a recipe for disaster under the right conditions ...

The damaged tank at Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. held approximately 900,000 gallons of white liquor, a chemical used in ...

A chemical solution used to turn wood into paper pulp is now at the center of Washington’s deadliest industrial tragedy in ...

Kraft pulp mills, which have been around for decades, use highly caustic chemicals known as white liquor and high‑temperature, high-pressure industrial processes to turn wood into paper and other ...

The paper engineering program is a chemical engineering-based curriculum designed to provide greater depth in fiber and paper processing for students preparing for an engineering career in the pulp, ...

Xylanases are hydrolytic enzymes that cleave the β-1,4 linkages of xylan, the major hemicellulosic component of plant cell walls. In the pulp and paper industry, these enzymes have been deployed to ...

The integrated sector of timber, pulp and paper encompasses the entire journey from standing forests through harvested wood to finished fibre-based products. Globally, forest resources cover roughly ...

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 ...