Students of Dr. Carl Schenck standing over box flume. Box flumes are man-made structures that use gravity to transport water from a dam to other locations.
Because Champion is just as interested in growing trees as in cutting them, trained foresters supervise the woodlands for cutting, selecting trees to be harvested and the ones to be left for seeding. Both on its own, and in active cooperation with…
The logs arrive at the chippers, where with a deafening roar, they are reduced to millions of chips the size of dominoes. A gradually rising belt carries the endless stream of chips up, up, more than an eighth of a mile to the storage bins. An 8500…
Now lets see the pulp made into paper. First, it must be separated into its millions and billions of tiny, individual fibers. For that purpose it goes to the beaters where the revolving beater wheel separates the fibers, then thoroughly beats and…
Highly diluted with pure, fresh water, the pulp flows onto the Fourdrinier wire. Even to the initiated it seems almost a miracle that this thin dilution of one percent fibers and ninety-nine percent water poured out onto a moving wire can become…