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ISSN ………… - International Network for Bamboo and Rattan

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Up to 1890, the purpose of pulp production was exclusively to furnish the paper industry. In 1892,<br />

however, Cross <strong>and</strong> Bevan discovered the xanthation of cellulose <strong>and</strong> realized the possibility of producing<br />

a regenerated cellulose fibre, rayon. The viscose process was developed <strong>and</strong> in 1903, a Norwegian<br />

sulphite mill began to deliver bleached sulphite pulp <strong>for</strong> textile purposes to Engl<strong>and</strong>. The expansion of<br />

viscose industry was marked with the possibility of utilizing kraft pulp produced by the prehydrolysis<br />

kraft process <strong>for</strong> dissolving grade pulp <strong>and</strong> the first mill <strong>for</strong> producing prehydrolysis kraft pulp was<br />

started in Germany in 1929.<br />

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