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21 - 25 of 25
Pulpwood, Wood Chips: Uses other than Paper?
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Didn't someone create a model of one of these plants? -- I don't remember if it was MM or RMJ or MR or another magazine, but I do remember it was a printed article. Maybe 20 years ago? Paper and lumber mills can be gigantic. And another use for "pulpwood" was wooden matches. The Diamond Matches mill up in northern MN took in dozens of cars every day and shipped them out in 40 foot box cars. On 8/3/2022 7:53 PM, Craig Zeni wrote: And in Scott's 1959 rayon and viscose fiber plants were still in production - Celanese at Narrows, VA and North American Rayon at Elizabethton TN were still active. I think Dupont in Waynesboro VA was also a rayon plant. Rayon and viscose fiber production needs two things in quantity - water and cellulose. --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts |
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Eric Hansmann
The rayon plant is a large feature on Jim Brewer’s HO scale N&W Shenandoah layout. It was featured in Model Railroad Planning but I can’t recall the year.
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Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN On Aug 3, 2022, at 7:06 PM, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
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Earl Tuson
A few comments and additions:
Rayon was not JUST made from wood cellulose. After the Suncook Mills (Suncook, NH,) shut down their cotton mill during the depression, Textron moved in, producing rayon and rayon fabric from cotton waste: fibers of too low quality to be used for cotton spinning. Now, Suncook was also home to what would eventually be the New England Wood Flour Co, before it burned to the ground: http://suncookvalleyrailroad.redmansefarm.com/PawtuckawayBox.htm Wood flour was made from wood manufacturing waste (chips, edgings, whatever,) and used a a filler in products such as Bakelite. Presumably, this outfit may have gotten feedstock from the local furniture factory. Another nearby rail customer, Bailey's box shop, also produced wood waste (but as a competitor to some of the owner's of the wood flour company, I'm not sure if their sawdust went there.) By 1952, what they didn't burn, they shipped out, including box car loads of sawdust to an outfit in Stockport, NY. I can't remember exactly what was made from it, but I dimly recall toilet seats, kitchen counters, or something along those lines. Earl Tuson |
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Hudson Leighton
This is a current industry but the idea may go back far enough.
We have a local industry that is a dealer in commercial landscaping supplies. They get in carloads of wood mulch and trans-load it to trucks for their customers. -Hudson |
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Hudson Leighton
Another use is the use of sawdust as bedding for cows.
-Hudson |
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