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1843 BCE
Wood Paper
In 1843, a solution was at hand, Saxon Friedrich Gottlob Keller invented a wood-grinding machine that produced groundwood pulp suitable for papermaking. This milestone was soon followed by an alternative way to turn wood into paper, chemical pulp was first patented in 1854 by Hugh Burgers and Charles Watt. -
610 BCE
Papermaking spreads across Asia, Middle East and Europe
Chinese papermaking techniques reached Korea at an early date and were introduced to Japan in the year 610. Very soon knowledge of papermaking spread to Central Asia, Tibet and to India.The Arab world expanded eastwards it too became familiar with the production of paper and paper mills were set up in Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and later in Morocco, Spain and Sicily. -
105
Birthplace of Paper
The birth of paper as it's known today, took place under the Chinese Han Dynasty in AD 105. Ts'ai Lun, a court official, invented a papermaking process which primarily used rags (textile waste) as the raw material with which to make paper. -
Jan 1, 1401
Paper mills’ increasing productivity
The advantages of mill-based papermaking spread throughout Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. In Germany, by the end of the 16th century there were 190 mills. -
21th Century & beyond…
Paper can be impregnated, enamelled, creped, waterproofed, waxed, glazed, sensitised, bent, folded, twisted, crumpled, cut, torn,and dissolved.
