Word: fernandina
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...slash pine coastal flats of northeastern Florida one day last week went nervous, balding President Edward M. Mills of Rayonier Inc., world's biggest producer of the white, superfine dissolving pulps used by rayon makers for viscose yarn and staple fibre. No urge to fish in landlocked Fernandina harbor or take the sun on its 14-mile beach had taken him to Florida's northernmost resort, now sadly down at the heel. He went to see Rayonier's newest pulp plant for the first time since it went into production early in December. Ahead lay a beckoning...
...make newsprint from the pesky, resinous southern pine, Rayonier had put its research staff of twelve Ph.D.s to work in its laboratory in Shelton, Wash, on a process for using southern pine for rayon pulp. Laboratory-proved, their process had its production test on Dec. 6 when the Fernandina plant turned out its first batch of pulp, 30 tons. For the South, proud of industrial growth, it was also a first: today Fernandina is the only producer of bleached sulfite pulp from southern pine. (Other Southern plants produce sulfate pulp, for kraft papers, paperboard, bags, book stock...
Production at the plant has stepped up to 145 tons a day, should hit capacity, 180 tons (64,000 a year) before many more days. This means that Rayonier's total production from Fernandina and its four Pacific Coast plants will shortly reach something over 300,000 tons a year, about 16% of the world's estimated output...
...first month of operation most of the Fernandina pulp went to makers of plastics and fine white papers. For this the war was partly responsible. Plastics and fine paper men, fat with booming business, have been stepping up domestic pulp orders, in fear that the war, which has already crippled Finnish producers, may soon cut down imports from Sweden, Norway, other pulp suppliers. For Fernandina pulp, designed for more exacting uses, this is welcome business to get the plant going. But its real destiny is the rayon plants...
...fiscal year reported last week, it produced 204,000 tons of dissolving pulp, an increase of 50%, about a fifth of the world output. Rayonier's record earnings do not mean that it has not felt Depression II-opening, of its new $8,000,000 mill at Fernandina, Fla., originally scheduled for August, is being postponed...