[blackdog]

Sonoco, or American Can? Getting that glue lap down just right on the paper is a real art form. I moved on to premium bath tissue machines, both in manufacturing and converting those giant rolls into bath tissue. Today's TAD machines run at 4,000 meters a minute. One long parent roll 20' wide, weighing 9,000 pounds, slit in half by water jet splitters, every eight minutes. (2 at a time)

500 pound bales of pulp drop into the hydropulper every few seconds. If you ever need to dispose of a body, a paper mill has about 100 ways to kill you and there would be no trace. Even your bone fragments get re-ground until the fines put you into the paper. The whitening and brightener bleach your blood n guts into fats scraped off as a foam in the wastewater recirculating process. (It no longer goes out to a river to flow away) The de-wetting water is all recycled. The fresh makeup water merely offsets the Yankee Dryers steam flow in drying the sheet.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Sonoco, or American Can?”

Continental Can back in ‘70-’72. No idea who acquired it after that.

I worked in the power industry after graduating as an ME in ‘73. Worked in a lot of paper and pulp mills in the PNW, mainly black and red liquor. We’d burn the digested lignins in recovery boiler furnaces. Whatever might of been left of you made steam to power the paper digesting and drying processes.