Do you know how paper is made ? Well, people make paper from trees. First, they cut down trees that make good paper, and then they transport the logs to the factory. At the factory, they wash the logs rinse away dirt and other impurities. After that, the logs are put into machines to make small wood chips and then process these chips into pulp.
This pulping process is to separate wood fibers. This is important because different techniques of pulping too. The pulp looks like a mushy and watery solution, but if you look at it with a microscope you can see the individual fibers. All have been separated.
When you get this, you are ready to make paper. You do it by removing the water because 99% of the solution is water. To remove the water, they spray the soup on along wide screen. They call this wire. And then the water runs to the bottom of the wire,and fibers are caught on the top side of the wire. Here the fibers bond together, and then make a thin mat, the fiber mat. Then people squeeze this mat with rollers to remove more water. After this pressing, the mat still contains water. It is about 60% of it.
Now the mat is ready to go to the drying process. This mat, then, has to go through some rollers, sometimes a dozen of them. These not rollers seal the fibers closer and closer and eventually turn the mat into paper.
(Taken From : Bahasa Inggris SMA dan MA, 2008)
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