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wood pulp

Pulp made from wood, used especially to make paper.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

wood pulp

1. (Elements & Compounds) wood that has been ground to a fine pulp for use in making newsprint and other cheap forms of paper, and in the production of hardboard

2. (Elements & Compounds) finely pulped wood that has been digested by a chemical, such as caustic soda, and sometimes bleached: used in making paper

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

wood′ pulp`

wood reduced to pulp through various treatments for use in manufacturing certain kinds of paper.

[1865–70]

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wood pulp - wood that has been ground to a pulp; used in making cellulose products (as rayon or paper)

pulp - a mixture of cellulose fibers

Translations

لُباب الخَشَب

savsmuld

Holzspäne

fapép

pasta di legno

buničina

kâğıt hamuru

木质纸浆

wood pulp

n → pasta di legno

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wood

(wud) noun

1. (also adjective) (of) the material of which the trunk and branches of trees are composed. My desk is (made of) wood; She gathered some wood for the fire; I like the smell of a wood fire.

2. (often in plural) a group of growing trees. They went for a walk in the woods.

3. a golf-club whose head is made of wood.

ˈwooded adjective

(of land) covered with trees. a wooded hillside.

ˈwooden adjective

made of wood. three wooden chairs.

ˈwoody adjective

1. covered with trees. woody countryside.

2. (of a smell etc) of or like wood.

ˈwood carving noun

the art of carving wood.

ˈwoodcut noun

a print made by pressing a block of wood with design cut on it onto paper.

ˈwoodcutter noun

a person whose job is felling trees.

ˈwoodland noun

land covered with woods. a stretch of woodland.

ˈwoodlouse – plural ˈwoodlice – noun

a tiny creature with a jointed shell, found under stones etc.

ˈwoodpecker noun

a type of bird which pecks holes in the bark of trees, searching for insects.

ˈwood pulp noun

pulp from wood that can be used for making paper.

ˈwoodwind (-wind) noun

(in an orchestra, the group of people who play) wind instruments made of wood.

ˈwoodwork noun

1. the art of making things from wood; carpentry. He did woodwork at school.

2. the wooden part of any structure. The woodwork in the house is rotting.

ˈwoodworm – plurals ˈwoodworm, ~woodworms – noun

the larva of a certain type of beetle, which bores into wood and destroys it.

out of the wood(s)

out of danger.

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Sateri's viscose is made from 100% certified woodpulp from sustainably-managed plantations and is fully biodegradable.

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I realised that the actual waxed cartons were made from a coated paperboard and that paperboard is made from woodpulp and woodpulp is a mushed-up gunk of wood.

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He was also involved in the Masterfoods v van den Bergh reference and the related ice-cream cases, the successful annulment of the Commission's TACA decision (including [Euro]273m fines), and the Steel beams, Woodpulp and Cartonboard appeals in the European courts.

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Yes it does, but the company is also a pioneer in the development of cellulose-based films--and there's no point in using rather expensive woodpulp as your raw material if people start accusing you of aiding and abetting the demise of what's left of the world's rainforests or driving smallholders out of their ancestral lands.

Getting certified

Some of the top export commodities: Mineral Fuel/Oil (Ashland, Ergon, Loresco) $3.96 billion Automatic Data Processing Machines (Triton) $1.1 billion Tanning/Dye/Paint/Putty (duPont) $928 million Electrical Machinery (Peavey, Viking, Howard, $815 million Triton) Cotton & Yarn/Fabric (StaplCotn) $708 million Vehicles/Not Railway (Griffin, Nissan, Toyota) $604 million Woodpulp (Georgia-Pacific) $476 million Plastic (Miss.

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Among the products are wood energy, sawn softwood, paper and woodpulp, and tropical timber.

Forest products annual market review; 2007-2008

He wrote Stein (20 March 1933) of being handed the manuscript when he was in a dispirited mood, "rather annoyed by what I took to be a trick of Mr Bradley's to pique my curiosity, and vastly bored by the prospect of having to wade through so many reams of anonymous woodpulp...." He then went on to describe to Gertrude Stein how her "woodpulp," on the contrary, fascinated and absorbed him, "so entirely had I been caught by the spell of your words"(qtd.

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[F.sub.woodpulp imp] is the fraction of woodpulp used to make paper and paperboard imported to the United States in year T.

Sequestration of carbon in harvested wood products for the United States

The increases are due to the continuous rise in the cost of raw materials, in particular woodpulp, energy, transportation and packaging costs, the company said.

Crepe paper price increases announced by Ahlstrom Corporation

Earlier in the production chain, the cost of high-grade wastepaper rose 21.7 percent in 2006, following a 7.6-percent decline in 2005; corrugated wastepaper prices surged 31.9 percent after dropping 23.8 percent; and woodpulp prices moved up 8.2 percent, compared with a 2.9-percent rise a year earlier.

Price highlights, 2006: energy goods retreat, moderating producer prices

Clarifoil is made from woodpulp produced from sustainable forestry, and under British legislation is classed with paper and board for recycling, composting and use in energy-from-waste electricity generators.

Awarding environmentally-friendly packaging

At their AGM, the St Andrews company said sales in 2003 were up to pounds 39million but profits were reversed by high woodpulp and other raw material prices.