How Technological Innovations Changed Newsprint and the Making Process of It-Survey on Technological Developments in Newsprint Production in Japan-
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- Iida Kiyoaki
- Senior researcher in 2007, Center of the History of Japanese Industrial Technology, National Museum of Nature and Science Executive Director emeritus, JAPAN TAPPI
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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- 技術革新が新聞用紙とその製造技術を如何に変えてきたか―新聞用紙製造技術の系統化調査―
- -Survey on Technological Developments in Newsprint Production in Japan-
- ―新聞用紙製造技術の系統化調査―
Abstract
The basic paper making process was invented in China in A. D. 105. Its raw materials were reclaimed clothes and woody glasses, and paper was hand-made. The process evolved to modern paper making one through the age of the industrial revolution, using wood as raw material and making sheet with machinery force. With adding new applications such as packaging and tissue in the 1920’s, the paper industry developed to one of the largest industries. Due to its largeness, the paper industry has had to reconcile environment. The industry has, in its character, a sustainable carbon recycling system, in which carbon passes from wood to paper, which is recycled, to carbon dioxide after energy recovery and again to wood.<BR>Though Japan is ranked the third in paper and paperboard production due to the rapid expansion of China, it is still an important player in the world. The fact that the industry has been competitive against imported products in spite of scarce domestic resources (wood and energy) suggests that there should have been many kinds of technological developments which made the industry prospering. The author intends to clarify the characteristics of those developments by surveying those of newsprint which is a representative product in volume as well as in technological development.<BR>The paper is serialized in four parts, and this is the first of them. Commentary on basic technologies in this part will help to understand the survey starting in the coming issues.
Journal
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- JAPAN TAPPI JOURNAL
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JAPAN TAPPI JOURNAL 63 (4), 404-413, 2009
JAPAN TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390001206516125184
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- NII Article ID
- 130004492680
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- COI
- 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD1MXltVGnsbg%3D
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- ISSN
- 18811000
- 0022815X
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed