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PULP PRODUCTION IN
THAILAND
Since the pulp and paper
industry is raw material intensive, Eucalyptus, Bamboo
and Kenaf are grown and harvested by local farmers'
plantations and delivered to a plant in Kon Kean.
Eucalyptus is one of the best raw materials to produce
short fibre pulp. It is known in
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Thailand as "Euca",
eucalyptus plantation have been in general positive
embraced by local farmers who get a good income
selling the fast growing trees to produce Thai pulp.
In eucalyptus plantation there is a trade off in terms
of usage of the soil and the degrading of the soil over
time, but with the right strategy this can be kept under
control. Bamboo,
known in
Thailand as " Pai ", a non
wood plant can
be grown on
almost any soil.
Bamboo is a very
popular material in Thailand with many applications. Harnessing the buildings during
construction,
young bamboo
shoots are
popular as a add
on vegetable, a base material for furniture and handicrafts. On top of it it
gives a valuable
add on to be
mixed into pulp
from Thailand.
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A very similar fiber plant is hemp, one of
the most
versatile plants
on this planet.
With the
introduction of
plastic fiber by
DuPont and the
political
wrangling of
several US
governments who
try to support
their chemical
industry, those
two parties were
able by using
sheer force and
political black
mail to bring
the hemp
farming to a end
by calling it
marihuana
production.
Actually the industrial
used hemp
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has such a low
amount of drug substance that someone would have to
smoke maybe a cubic meter to feel some effect but you
ever heard of a politician who know what he is talking
about it ?
Hemp is
a plant grown
and used since
thousands of
years but the US
government
outlawed it to
bring DuPont
into business, a
clear racket to
force others out
for the benefit
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