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Brown Co. was a pioneer in the newsprint field but abandoned it in favor of kraft papers just before the War. Coarse, heavy paper still accounts for nearly one-third'of Brown's business but its trade fame now rests on pulps. In 1924 its research chemist developed a highly-purified cellulose fibre used in the manufacture of yarns, fabrics, absorbents, fine papers and innumerable plastic products ranging from lighting fixtures to poker chips. The company itself manufactures finished products like yarns, conduits, shoe linings. A leader in forestry and reforestation, Brown Co. abandoned the last...
Financed by an offering of rights to common stockholders, Union Bag's new factory will employ nearly 1,000 persons directly, and another 500 indirectly in the nearby woods. However, the Savannah paper mill did not represent the long-promised birth of a Southern newsprint industry. Like many another paper mill in the South, the Union Bag plant will turn out coarse, dark kraft paper for bags and wrapping...
...group organized last spring to promote the use of farm products in industry and now functioning as the Farm Chemurgic Council (TIME, May 20). The Council carefully called the public's attention to the works of Chemist Charles Holmes Herty, who has long dreamed of transferring the newsprint industry from the spruce forests of Canada to the pine woods of Georgia. For several years Chemist Herty experimented with the pine pulp on a $40,000 grant from his native State and contributions from the Chemical Foundation. After Governor Talmadge vetoed further appropriations, the Chemical Foundation took up the slack...
Paper is a hot subject in the South, partly because of the conviction that Northern newsprint "interests" are blocking the flow of capital to their unborn industry, partly because Southern pines- slash, loblolly, longleaf, old field and Virginia-sprout like weeds. Slash pine grows as much as 6 ft. in a single year. And ardent Southern piners like Chemist Herty claim that if cultivated like field crops, slash pine could be harvested five years from the planting of seedlings. Ordinarily slash pine can be cut for pulp at an age of ten to 15 years, as against...
...sylvan visions of Chemist Herty & friends, Union Bag's new Savannah plant is hardly a symbol. Their piney economy turns on newsprint, which devours a forest for every tree that is used in kraft paper. With a capacity of 120 tons of paper per day, the bag plant will mash up only 70,000 cords of wood annually...