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From left: Hans Östling (Expancel), Christian Blom, Lily Xu, Fanny Liang, Olivia Liu, Bobby Tang, Ross Howat, Paul Coates and Patrick Zhou
Chinese producers
introduced to ECF bleaching
The demand for papermaking fiber and lack of wood has made
non-wood fiber an interesting base for papermaking in China.
The fact is that China is the biggest producer of non-wood
fiber in the world with more than 10 million tons annually.
■To develop and evaluate modern bleaching
technology on non-wood pulps Eka Chemicals
and South China University of Technology (SCUT)
had already started joint research efforts seven
years ago.
In conjunction with the exhibition a conference
was arranged in Guangzho at which Eka Chemi-
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cals participated with a presentation of ECF
bleaching (see adjacent article). Christian Blom
from Global Marketing made a presentation he
had written together with Jiri Basta and Thomas
Greschik from R&D.
The presentation, interpreted into Chinese by
Lily Xu Technical sales engineer at Eka Chemi-
cals China, with the long name “ECF Bleaching of
Non-wood Pulps from China – an Eka Chemicals
Perspective” included the prediction that nonwood
pulp will continue to play an important role
in the future and bamboo will be the growing segment
taking shares from straw pulp. Non-wood
pulping has some key issues to address, one of
them being obsolete chlorine bleaching.
ECF BLEACHING CAN BE the solution, since it
both reduces the effluent output to international
standards and improves the pulp quality. In
the presentation some highlights of the bleaching
technology, developed together with SCUT,
were given.