Glatfelter Plant Papermaking Process

On Thursday, March 20, process class visited the Glatfelter factory in Chillicothe, Ohio. Glatfelter is one of the world's leading manufacturers of specialty paper and engineering products. Established by Philip Glatfelter in 1864, the company expanded to $ 19 billion in annual turnover. Headquartered in York, Pennsylvania, the company has paper mills and wooden gardens throughout the United States. Glatfelter also has international business in Germany, France, the UK, Canada and the Philippines.

A thin nonwoven material made from pulverized vegetable fiber, usually used for paper, writing, artwork, and packaging, is usually white. In the East Han Dynasty (AD 25 to 220 AD), China recorded the first papermaking process. In the 8th century, the Chinese paper industry spread to the Islamic world, paper pulp and paper mills were used to make paper and money. In the 11th century, the paper industry was brought to Europe. In the 13th century, the paper industry developed at a paper mill using a Spanish water mill. After that, the improvement of papermaking technology in Europe occurred in the 19th century by the invention of wooden paper.

Both China and Muslim papermakers know about manpower and plants that use power. However, before the 11th century, the evidence of a hydropower paper mill was elusive. Muslim writers said the production center was "paper mill" instead of "factory". This indicates that hydraulic paper mills were not widely used at the Muslim paper mill until the 11th century. In the work of the Persian scholar Abu Rayhan Biruni of the 11th century, Donald Hill has confirmed the possibility of reference to the Samarkand hydraulic paper mill, but this paragraph "can not be said certainly because it is too short" is what it means. Harvey believes that this is the first evidence that Samarkand used hydraulic power for papermaking, but he pointed out that in other parts of the Islamic world it is not clear whether water is suitable for the paper industry.