Export of Chemically produced and Mechanically produced Pulp.
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Chemically produoed pulp. Mechanically produced pulp.
in Varmland, though it existed here and there in the south of Sweden too,
has, of late years, gained a footing in Norrland, where, at present, nearly
half of the wood-pulp of the country is made. The economic importance
of the growth of this industry lies, of course, principally in the fact that
it represents a higher stage of manufacture than its older sister-industry,
the saw-mills industry, with which, to a certain degree, it competes for the
supplies of raw material, and which, possibly, it will soon outdistance.
But even in this respect, its development represents a fact of immense importance,
as it has made possible the economic utilization of timber for
which, previously, there had been no profitable use; it has provided a market
for timber waste and timber cut for the thinning of forests, this last-
mentioned step thus making the wood-pulp industry a means of carrying
out a judicious system of forestry. In the technical development of this