What's the difference between kraft paper pulp and dissolving pulp? To start, you need to understand that under the bark of the tree, wood is composed of five main constituents -- water, cellulose, ...

E.J. Harris / East Oregonian A company in Eastern Washington is developing a new way to make paper pulp — without trees. The mill will instead use a source abundant to the area: straw. Farmers used to ...

WEST LINN, Ore. — On the banks of the Willamette River in West Linn sits a 130-year-old paper mill. The factory, once sewn into the state's fabric, faced the same fate as other paper mills in Oregon ...

Boxes that sense the weight of their contents and books that talk back when pages are turned could be developed using technology being tested by researchers at MIT in the US. They are making paper ...