A new PARADIGM is needed

摘要

Paper industry management has ignored the great significance of bringing its chemistry focus to a molecular scale. In doing so it is missing the opportunity to magnify chemistry effectiveness by one to two orders of magnitude. Our studies have shown that the conventional papermaking process is flawed; chemistry efficiency is less than 10%, and energy efficiency only about 50%. These, combined with other inefficiencies, virtually double the effective cost of a new machine.