Papermaking

James, I think you need a papermaking article.

— Sable Aradia when reviewing my Chromatic Smithing: The Whole Spectrum Of Metalsmithing Article in 2020

Paper is not made nor recycled in Birdencaster. These are not done in Birdencaster, as the Forestry industry of Zone 5, does not create enough wood to allow both processes of paper making and other processes. This does not extend to kindling which is reducing waste and alleviates the resource issues to do with The Electrical Protests of Birdencaster.
When paper is made is to make notebooks or ballot papers can be easily made over and over, for example, a lined notebook or a table for ballot papers. Standard sheets of paper that we, in the old world, are not done as it is seen as a waste of resources and can create weight in transportation, the weight that is better used with other items such as metals.

The Papermaking Process

From Wood To Pulp

Logs are taken from an outside storage yard and loaded into a hopper. This hopper moves the logs so that they are facing the same direction, they are loaded into a machine that debarks them.
The bark from the logs is burned to generate power for the paper mill.
The debarked logs are taken to another machine that makes the logs into chips. These chips are then left outside through the summer and winter. The chips are then washed, and exiting the washer two things are made. A black sludge, known as lignin is used as fuel to boil water and to power the paper mill. The other is wood pulp which is brown.

Quality Control

Some notebooks and paper are required to be white while others it is acceptable for it to be brown.
For paper that is destined to be white, it is bleached repeatedly until white. In either case of brown or white paper, the process continues but the machinery is separate.

From Pulp to Paper

The Pulp is pumped into a tank and the water is taken out through boiling. The pulp going was 95 per cent water is now left with 5%. The plump gets pressed into a long sheet which removes the remaining 5% and it is rolled up, the roll weighs 35t (78,400lb) and is 60 kilometres long (37.38 miles).

Shipping

At this point it is paper. The roll can be cut for industrial procedures and shipped as is in other cases it is unrolled into sheets of paper and made into notebooks if there is nothing printed on the paper the resulting notebook will be blank. Plain page notebooks that are used with Typewriters are perforated so that a page can be inserted into the Typewriter. The notebooks are then shipped to Warehouses or shipped on trains to other places such as Birdencaster.

Type
Manufacturing, (Secondary Industry)
 

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