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BEING MADE IN BRITAIN SHIPMENTS FOR OVERSEAS Cargoes of paper made from straw are now on their "way from Britain overseas. The achievement is a triumph for British research. Papermarkers, during the last war, began experimenting with the idea of paper from straw. Since then they have made such progress that to-day they are shipping a product which although it lacks the qualities of vellum, is excellent for writing on. The present difficulty of getting esparto grass from Spain and North Africa has thus been overcome and paper made from straw is available for export in virtually every grade and type, with the exception of newsprint.
Scottish papermakers are notoriously critical of new processes in paper making, yet one of them states that the new product is well up to standard and that this wartime expedient may well become the regular practice of peace-time.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 290, 2 April 1941, Page 7
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147PAPER FROM STRAW Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 290, 2 April 1941, Page 7
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