Grades(Tyeps) of Paper

Some of the major grades of paper classifications are:

1 Based on Usage

• Industrial: Packaging, wrapping, filtering, electrical etc.
• Cultural: Writing, printing, Newspaper, currency etc.
• Food: Food wrapping, candy wrapping Coffee filter, tea bag etc

2 Based on Raw Material Wood: Contain fibers from wood Agricultural residue: Fibers from straw, grass or other annual plants Recycled: Recycle or secondary Fiber

3 Based on Surface Treatment

• Coated: Coated with clay or other mineral.
• Uncoated: No coating
• Laminated: aluminum, poly etc

Finish Fine/Course calendered/ supercalendered Machine Finished (MF)/Machine Glazed (MG) Glazed/Glossed

Comparative Analysis of Different Pulping Processes

Category	Pulping process	Chemical treatment	Mechanical treatment	pulp yield%
Mechanical	Ground wood	No treatment(sometimes steam treatment)	Grinder Defibrator	93-98
Semi-chemical	Ground wood and steamed ground wood with acid sulphite,bisulphite	none	Grinder,refiner or hydropupler	60-98
Chemical Process	Kraft(sulphate) Soda Acid sulphite Bisulphate-acid sulphite	Kraft Alkali Acid sulphite Bisulphate	None None None	40-55 40-55 40-60

Sindh paper industry

Paper industry	location	Raw material	Pulp process	products
Ddabhoy paper mill,security mills	karachi	Straw,cotton		Printing/writing paper
Allied paper mill, chilya cor-poration	thatta	straw		L,M
Dawn paper mill,orient strawboard,star paper mill	hyderabada	straw		L,M

Punjab Paper Mill

Paper industry	location	Raw material	Pulp process	products
International fib	khushab			Printing/wrinting paper
Thal paper	jaunharabad			newspaper
Farooki kraft	gujrat	wood	kraft	pulp
Jubilee+6	gujranwala	straw	soda	Textile cone stock
packages	lahore	Straw,khai	sulfite	Printing/writing paper,folding box,tissue
Century paper mill	kasur	Straw,bagasse	sulfite	Printing/writing paper,folding box
Crescent board	Faisalabad	bagasse	Thermo-mechanical pulping	Hard board,particle board
Flying paper mill	sheikhupura	straw	sulfite	Printing/writing paper,folding box

Paper Mills in Pakistan

Charsadda. NWFP:Pakistan paper cooperation

Pakistan paper cooperation was built in 1972 under government auspices,to produce 100 tons per day of printing/writing paper from bagasse.it adjoints charsadda sugar refinery.the pulp potential is 66,6000 tons per day.

                            

Nowshera,NWFP:Adamjee paper company

This company operate 2 machines,100 tons per day paper and board mill,the oldest in Pakistan.they produce about 60 TPD of neutral sulphite pulp from straw,khai,cotton,etc.they are using some popular and E.Camaaldulensis on trial basis.

Gujranwala,Punjab

There are six mills in this area producing about 32,000 TPA of paper or board and 20,000TPA

of lime soda pulp.67 TPD of these jubilee paper and board mills is the best and largest at 10,000 TPA pulp,15,000 TPA paper.these mills are primarily producing some stock for local textile industry.

Sheikkhpura,punjab

There are 12 mills in this locality grouped in close proximity one another of the sheikhupura-lahore highway.they range from 4,000-19,000 TPA pulp.total paper capacity is 93,000 TPA.

    

Flying paper mills

It is one of  the newest mills,the paper mill started up in 1986,the pulp mil in 1989.they have a capacity of 24,000 TPA printing/writing and sack kraft papers:14,000 TPA straw pulp.since start up,they have also been using imported pulp,thus producing excellent paper.pulpwood potential is 53,000 TPA.

  Lahore,Punjab

there are five mills in Lahore area,three operating now.total pulp wood potential is 235,000 TPA.

Packages limited

]Packages operate three machines producing 42,500 TPA of wide variety of grades including tissue,printing/writing and folding box.packages produce 60 TPD of neutral sulfite pulp,primarily from straw and khai.the pulpwood potential is 94,000 TPA.

Chunian,Kasur,Punjab:Centery Paper Mill

Century paper is the new mill.it has two paper machines producing printing/writing and folding box grades.it has capacity of 100-120 TPD.it produces bi-sulphite pulp from straw and bagasse.

Faisalabad,Punjab:crescent hardboard

They produce 24,000 TPA of hard board and particle board,its raw material is bagasse.it is owned by the crescent sugar company.

Karachi,Sindh

Two mills,Ddabhoy paper and security mills produce 3,500 TPA paper.Al-Noor sugar mill is interested to establish a bagasse based mill.the pulp wood potential of 11,000TPA is discounted.

                                          

Hyderabad-Kotri,Sindh

There are three mill,Dawn paper,Orient strawboard and star paper mills.these produces 11,000TPA and 7,500 TPA pulp.

Thatta,Sindh

Two existing mills,Allied Paper at Gharo chilya corperation produce 13,000TPA paper and 9,000TPA pulp.the announced pakland paper limited is stated at 30,000TPA capacity.

Nooriabad,Dadu,Sindh

City paper cooperation produces 7,200 TPA of corrugating medium,no pulp.

Paper industry in Pakistan

At the time of partition,there were 15 mills in the subcontinent producing a 100,000 tons of paper per year,but as it happened ,none of them was in the area that became Pakistan.and the new country had literally to start from scratch.every single sheet of paper had to imported for printing newspaper,producing schoolbooks,writing letters or carrying private or government business.

In the early years of our independence,we were spending annually three crores of rupees for imported paper apart from similarity heavy expenditure on imports of other business and basic necessities.

We have identified 41 mills in Pakistan,31operating,8 planned and 2 idle.they have the capicaty for producing about 465,000 TPA paper and 292,000 TPA pulp.these range from under 2000TPA toabout 30,000 TPA.they are all very small by modern standards.the primary fiber sources are wheat straw,khai with some baggase,cotton waste and other materials.There is no wood used with the expection of experiments in few miles.