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timber-ware industry.
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In Table 86, on page 639, will be found the figures for the exports
and imports of manufactured wooden goods. As will be seen, the export
trade is increasing in a very gratifying manner, primarily due to the
rapid development of the wood-pulp industry.
Wood-Pulp Manufacture.
"Wood-pulp may be fairly called one of the natural products of
the country of Sweden, owing to the vast supply of timber suited to
its production and the great storage of power in the numerous
waterfalls. Sweden has, moreover, taken a leading part in the development
of the industry, more especially by the invention and application of a
number of improved and simplified methods of manufacture.
Wood-pulp Factory. Boilers.
The first wood-grinding mill in Sweden for the manufacture of
wood-pulp by mechanical processes was established in 1857 at
Trollhättan; the method employed was that first practically adopted by
Völter in 1846. This method consists in grinding unsteeped blocks of
wood with their ends facing sandstones that revolve round a horizontal
axle, both stones and blocks being kept continually moist with water.
The wood-grinding mills established in recent years have the grind-
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