| » What is paper manufactured from? |
| The main raw material of the paper is cellulose. Most tree types can be used in manufacturing paper. Furthermore, cellulose can be produced from the fibers of straw, cotton and linen. Also the filling materials, resin and dye adding additional printing and surface properties to the paper are the main raw materials of paper manufacturing. |
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| » When was the first paper produced? |
| The first paper has been produced in A.C. 105 by Tsai Lun at China. |
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| » How much tree is used for the manufacturing of paper? |
| 17 trees are cut for the manufacturing of 1 ton 1st quality pulp paper. |
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| » What is the paper consumption in the world? |
| The average per person paper consumption throughout the world is 48 kg. The consumption in North America constitutes 1/3 of this amount. |
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| » Can it be expected that the paper consumption would reduce due to the increase in computer and electronic communication in communication age? |
| In the researches made as office papers, it is seen that the paper usage has increased. The expectation of the international research units is that the usage will increase by 50% in 2010. |
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| » Is paper a recyclable material? |
| Paper can be recycled 100% and can be used again in paper manufacturing. |
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| » Are we loosing our forests due to paper manufacturing? |
| The paper industry has created industry forests to provide the wood they need. The wood for paper is produced with plantation forests, not with natural forests, and new ones are planted for the ones cut. Each year 2 times more than the cut trees are planted at America where approximately 50% of the paper industry’s main raw material is produced. There are more trees at America now compared to 70 years ago. |
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| » Where does the paper word come from? |
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Turks have named the lamina they have obtained from silk fibers by beating as “Kakat”. Then, “kakat” word has become “kağat” and has been placed in many Eastern languages in this way. Today, similar words are used in many languages and it has taken names such as kagez in Indian, karni in Japanese, kokdz, kucih, kokci in Chinese and kağat, kakaz in Persian, Afghani and Urdu. It is used as “kağıt” in Turkish.
In foreign languages, papyrus has given the name of the paper as the ancestor of paper. The name of paper in many languages comes from Latin “papyms” word. For example, papier in French, paper in English, papier in German, papel in Spanish and Portuguese, paperi in Finnish, papir in Yugoslavian, Hungarian and Czech. |
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