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If you are in the forestry business, you may also be in the fashion business and not know it.
Forest products are often thought of as lumber and paper, and beyond that the list gets thin. Fortress Paper has been betting that the production of rayon, a fabric used to make clothing, will be another successful forest product. They have bought another old mill in Quebec and will change it's production to dissolving pulp in order to make rayon. The process is different than producing pulp for paper, but with some investment it can be done.
Though rayon may not be a huge market now in forestry, it's always great to see another use for wood fibre. Any time another product can be produced from wood fibre, it helps the forest industry and creates a demand for the available timber resource. To see a mill that's been shut down for 6 years have a new life is a great story for the town in Quebec where it's happening.
The rayon market is seeing an increase because cotton crops and production haven't been able to meet all the demand in recent times. Rayon material also has different properties than cotton. It doesn't retain heat as well as cotton does, but this is a good feature to have in warmer climates, which is where many emerging markets in Asia, the Middle East and South America happen to be.
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Fortress Paper Ltd. plans to transform yet another old Quebec forest-products mill into a facility that makes pulp used in the production of rayon instead of paper.
The old Domtar mill has been shut for more than six years and is now to get a new lease on life by producing dissolving pulp used in the manufacture of rayon, a product that has been in huge demand especially in Asia.
The project is the second such endeavour by Mr. Wasilenkoff in Quebec, after the transformation two years ago of a mothballed hardwood pulp mill in Thurso to pulp-for-rayon.
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Foretress Paper Rayon Pulp Mill
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