Chapter 4
I Management Of Native Forests
II Plantations-high Productivity Resources
III Protecting The Resource
IV Harvesting The Resource
V Solid Wood And Its Processing
VI Minor Forest Products
VII Reconstituted Wood Products
VIII Pulp And Paper
i Early eucalypt pulping research and development
ii Eucalypt pulp production begins
iii Early commercial operation
iv The beginnings of pulp production from plantation pine
v Technological development and economic growth
vi 1975 and beyond
IX Export Woodchips
X Future Directions
XI Acknowledgements
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1975 and beyond (continued)
A new market for wood pulp that has been developed in Australia by James Hardie and Co. Pty. Ltd. with assistance from CSIRO[106] is the use of pine kraft in fibre-reinforced cement products to replace asbestos. This began with partial replacement in the 1960s, but with the optimization of pulp refining conditions, established in 1980, the company was able to introduce to the market products reinforced with wood pulp fibres only.Australia is now about 70 per cent self-sufficient in paper and paperboard. In recent years the industry has been looking to exports, particularly to the Western Pacific region, as an additional source of growth. For 1984/85 exports were about 5 per cent of output although they were as high as 8 per cent in 1980/81. New export pulp and paper mills have been proposed from time to time, some as further developments of existing wood chip export projects. None, however, has yet been firmly committed.
Organisations in Australian Science at Work - CSIRO; James Hardie and Co. Pty Ltd
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