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Despite increasing digitalization, paper plays a key role in our everyday lives, from facial tissues to the packaging your latest online purchase arrives in.<\/p>\n

But have you ever wondered how paper is made?<\/p>\n

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“As one of the world\u2019s largest producers of sustainable pulp and paper, APRIL Group helps create products that are used by millions of people every day in liquid packaging, printing and writing paper, tissues, shopping bags, food packaging, magazines and books.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how paper is made step by step<\/p>\n

STEP 1 – Tissue culture<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The journey begins in our tissue culture lab<\/a>, where our scientists clone our best trees \u2013 those with good fiber properties and that are resistant to pests and diseases. These samples go on to the multiplication stage, where each shoot is used to produce thousands of individual seedlings.<\/p>\n

The best of these go on to the elongation stage where they grow into plantlets, which are strong enough to survive outdoors<\/p>\n

STEP 2- Nursery<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The next stop is the nursery, where the tissue culture plantlets, together with cuttings produced in the nursery, are grow into saplings that are about 20-26cm high over the course of approximately two months. During this time they receive careful attention from our nursery staff <\/a>to ensure they grow well. In fact, our nurseries produce around 200 million seedlings every year.<\/p>\n

STEP 3 – Renewable plantations<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Next, they are moved to our renewable plantations, where they will grow for the next five to six years, using CO2 as a raw material and providing oxygen to the air until they are ready for harvest. Our plantations are governed by our Sustainable Forest Management Policy 2.0<\/a>, which prevents clearing of new land and commits APRIL to matching each hectare of plantation forest with one hectare of conservation forest.<\/p>\n

After harvest, the plantations will be planted with new saplings and the cycle begins again.<\/p>\n

STEP 4 – Pulp and paper manufacturing process<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The harvested logs are then transported to our pulp mill – one of the largest and most efficient in the world – where they are fed into the debarking drum, which removes the bark and dirt which would make the wood harder to process.<\/p>\n

The debarked logs then go into the wood chipper where they are broken into small pieces \u2013 ideally 7-45mm long and less than 8mm thick.<\/p>\n

The wood chips are fed into the digester, where they are treated and then cooked at a temperature of 170\u00baC, to undo the natural glue which bonds wood fibers together.<\/p>\n

At this point, the mixture is pulp, which can be dried into high volume products like newsprint. But to produce higher quality products like writing paper, it still needs some work.<\/p>\n

STEP 5- Paper making process<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The pulp is fed into our paper making machine, which stretches almost four times the length of an Olympic swimming pool.<\/p>\n

It passes through the machine at around 90km\/h as it is heated to remove excess water while being flattened into sheets.<\/p>\n

Then, in the finishing process, a special coating is used that makes it smooth, glossy and ideal for printing.<\/p>\n

The paper is then wound onto jumbo reels that are 8.5m wide.<\/p>\n

Depending on the final product, it is then cut into the appropriate size, packaged, and shipped to customers. In the case of our flagship PaperOne brand, we export to customers in more than 70 countries around the world.<\/p>\n

All our products are certified by the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification, or PEFC<\/a>, and help create jobs and economic opportunities in Riau Province in Indonesia, where our contribution has been estimated<\/a> at more than 8% of the area\u2019s non-oil and gas GDP.<\/p>\n

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