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PART I. PULPING AND PAPER MAKING PRINCIPLES
1. INTRODUCTION
Pulp is the most important product of chemical conversion of ligno-cellulosic materials. In bamboo
growing countries, like India, bamboo is a main raw material for producing pulp for paper and rayon. The
gap between production and requirement for paper and paper products keeps increasing with the standard
of living is going up. The term ‘pulp’ is used generically for mechanical pulps, semi-chemical and
chemical pulps. Before dealing with the topic ‘bamboo for pulp and paper’, it is important to have a
minimum understanding of different pulping processes. Part I deals primarily with an overview of early
history, chemical constituents and fibre morphology of ligno-cellulosic material and the different
processes available for producing pulp and paper. Part II deals specifically on the role of bamboo in the
production of pulp and paper. Some of the standard terms used in pulping processes are given in
Appendix 1. Part III contains the annotated bibliography.