Reference is made in a recent issue of the “Scientific American” to the
excellent work being done at the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.
In relation to the pulp and paper laboratory presided over by Frederick
C. Clark, a prominent member of the Technical Association of the Pulp
and Paper Industry, the “Scientific American” says:
“Some time ago, the Government, realizing that we were cut off from
supplies of rags and waste paper, which heretofore had been imported in
large quantities, appealed to the public to save such refuse material
and sell it to paper manufacturers. As a result of this appeal, a
manufacturer of waxed paper asked the Department of Commerce whether
any use could be made of clippings of his product. In the production of
waxed paper sheets, this company is burdened with large quantities of
clippings, which have been hauled away by the carload and destroyed.
Owing to the association of the paraffin wax with the fiber of the
paper, such clippings cannot be introduced into ordinary paper pulp.”