Paper mill

A paper mill is a factory that produces paper, usually using vegetable fibers or wood pulp. Wood and other raw materials are cut into small chips and cooked with chemicals in large vessels. The chemicals separate a substance called cellulose from the wood fibres. The cellulose is then added with other chemicals and additives, and pressed into paper in large machines called paper machines. Most paper is made from pine, spruce and eucalyptus. Other things often used include rags.

Paper Mill Media

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  Basement of paper mill in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Pulp and paper manufacture involves a great deal of humidity, which presents a preventive maintenance and corrosion challenge.

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  A mid-19th century paper mill, the Forest Fibre Company, in Berlin, New Hampshire

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  Dutch paper mill from 1654 in the Arnhem open-air museum

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  Stromer's paper mill, the building complex at the far right bottom, in the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493. Due to their noise and smell, papermills were required by medieval law to be erected some distance from the city walls.

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  The Tervakoski Paper Mill in Tervakoski, Janakkala, Finland